Allison Hanes: Royalmount mall plan raises important questions

As a teenager growing up in suburbia, the mall was the centre of my existence.
A lot of my social life took place there, during lunch hours, between classes and on weekends. At a time when there were few cafés and most fast-food joints had 20-minute no-loitering limits, the mall was one of few places young people could congregate that wasn’t a park or parking lot. 
My tastes changed dramatically when I moved to the city. There was a time I knew all the trendy indie boutiques on