Dying malls have a viable use case: conversion into logistics facilities, according to a new report from Prologis. This is not exactly news: such projects have long been hyped as the answer to struggling class C and class D malls. The problem was, there have been only a few successful projects.

That may be changing. Last month, the Wall Street Journal  reported that Simon Property Group has been exploring with Amazon the possibility of turning some of its anchor department stores into Amazon distribution hubs. 

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