More than 20 years ago, Time magazine famously proclaimed on its cover that “Malls are dead.”
Nobody bothered to tell Lakeside Shopping Center, the 65-year-old superregional mall in Metairie that sits on some of the most valuable commercial land in Louisiana.
While two decades of e-commerce and changing consumer habits have shuttered big-box and department stores and the many shopping centers they once anchored, Lakeside has defied the odds, continuing to grow, adding ever more high-end retailers and posting year-over-year sales increases…