Did your malls ever have “dead sections” back in the day?

This isn’t really about the death of malls, but was there ever a section or an area where it seemed no one opened a store, or the stores that would open just failed to catch on?

I remember in my hometown mall, there was a little corner up and to the left next to the second story of Sears. There was space for a few stores (there was an ice cream parlor there at one point), and then it was like “the dark area” no one went to. There was a kids clothing store and a mens suit store, and then you just kept walking.

Any other patches of your malls where fruit wouldn’t blossom?