The mall was a big part of Erik Pierson’s life as a kid.
“The mall was just a place that we went to as kids because it was free air conditioning, it was stuff to do, it was somewhere our parents could get rid of us for a little bit. So, I spent a lot of time, especially in my teenaged years, at the mall,” Pierson said.
“And then, just watching over the years as a lot of the malls in the Phoenix area kind of started to slowly crumble, it just became super interesting to me that something that when I was a teenager was so popular and so busy is now something that a lot of people don’t even think about anymore.”…