Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: Hilltop Mall

  • KQED Article, other photo appearances

    I had some pictures used in an article on KQED on Hilltop Mall. Check it out here. It’s a great overview of the mall, from someone who was actually around for the mall’s heyday, which I unfortunately missed. (See my last post on that.) The reason these pictures got used is because I have everything…

  • Death of the Hilltop Mall

    Not a shocker by any means, but it appears that Hilltop Mall in Richmond has finally met its fate. It was just announced that logistics giant Prologis purchased the mall, which has been more or less closed since last year (although anchors Walmart and Macy’s were mostly open during the pandemic.) Hilltop’s a weird one…

  • Dead Mall: Hilltop Mall, Richmond, CA

    There’s a cruel irony in the fact that I’m now at the age where I need to old-man walk every day as per doctor’s orders, and I’d go to a mall and do the mall walking thing every day, but malls are all dying or dead. That — and the weather — is what brought…