Step into the old mall, and you enter a hallway where the skylights are dimmed by layers of grime. The floor tiles are broken and uneven, and the air carries a sharp, burnt-concrete smell.
Graffiti covers the walls up to about eight feet, while everything above that line remains clean and untouched. In 2016, a film crew turned this area into a futuristic prison for Westworld.
In 2002, another crew used a different section to create a bright, high-end shopping world for Minority Report. The building has worked better as a film set than it ever did as a mall. It shut down in 1999 after just over twenty years in business…