Not much good to report.
At about 500,000 square feet Northwood Mall opened in the late 1960's and had Publix, the public library and the Silver Slipper as big draws. But around 2000 Publix moved out and uses converted over to office/call center/fitness followed by nasty mold problems and the discovery of bat guano immediately over the office of a state agency head. (true story)
Tallahassee Mall came along in 1971 and was kind of infamous for dumping flooding and water quality problems into Lake Jackson. Anyway it did well and grew to about about 750,000 sq ft with a 20 screen theater but fell into decline to where a new owner recently tore down a wing added an indoor/outdoor amphitheater for musical performances and community events. They are giving it a go but the Centre of Tallahassee looks like a white elephant to me.
Then in 1979 Governor's Square opened, with it's two levels and natural light the place still looks beautiful to me. It's about 1,000,000 sq feet which was the prototypical size in the day, looks to me its in decline Penny's and Sears don't draw people like before and the smaller stores have been trending down. I've been there maybe twice since G&G moved.
No doubt mall demand was sucked away by the more contemporary lifestyle centers and is now are being hammered by internet shopping. Turns out the structures are only good for 30 or 40 years anyway. Malls are dying all over, there has been one new mall built in the country over the last 10 years (and it's in Sarasota).
End of opus.