Australia has not had quite the same fate for the shopping mall yet. We have stores get boarded up, but they usually turn to something else or a pop up shop in a few months. There have been a couple more that have last longer over the past two years.
I have watched a few videos from a YouTube channel that explores almost empty shopping centres somewhere in America. It would be creepy walking around some of them even though there are a couple of stores still trading, the thoughts from those videos is what this shopping centre being closed sort of made me feel.