![]() ![]() Crowds thronged to the annual Easter egg hunt and Lithuanian Days festival, a nod to the region’s ancestral ties. Now it’s a dialysis center.Ī decade ago, the Schuylkill Mall and its 90 stores, restaurants and knickknack kiosks was a nexus of daily life in this part of Pennsylvania coal country, where teenagers met to flirt as warm-up-suited seniors walked laps around them. The plants underneath the skylight droop toward a ring of yellow caution tape, and the piped-in music echoes off barren walls. The customer-service office is cordoned off by a metal gate. ![]() ![]() The stores that have shuttered–Sears, Kmart, Spencer Gifts, Hallmark Cards–far outnumber the dozen businesses that remain. The Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, Pa., is open for business, but you have to look hard to know it.
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