In the bleary predawn hours, it's hard to tell Mall of America from any other high-end shopping center. Workers wield mops, hammers and forklifts. Under dim lights, Cinnabon bakers stretch and roll ...

WHEN MALL OF America rose from the Minneapolis suburbs in the early 1990s, a glass-curtained spectacle on the land where the Metropolitan Stadium once stood, it was hailed as the pinnacle of retail.

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Mall of America's amusement park is one of the ways the shopping center lures tourists and locals to make a day of their visit. (Jenn Ackerman for NPR) In the bleary predawn hours, it's hard to tell ...