A year or so ago I snuck into an abandoned open air shopping center. It was on the Gold Coast, and it was a market/craft style place. The colour was fading from the buildings, things looked like they'd just been left there for a decade, it was really spooky.
Still got the pics of it, and I managed to talk to one of the realtors selling it. He said it was a community idea and alot of people had lost big money setting it up when it went bad. Ordinary Mums and Dads, sunk everything into it and when it went belly up it was bad. Suicides, a murder, it left really bad vibes and you could just feel it in its streets.
Probably been knocked down now.