N.Y.’s Biggest Mall Flirts With Muni Default as Future in Doubt

A sprawling shopping mall in Syracuse, New York, may be driven into one of the biggest municipal-bond defaults since the onset of the pandemic.

Already struggling before the lockdowns hammered retailers, Destiny USA, the state’s largest mall, said it doesn’t know if it will generate enough cash to keep running and pay its debts this year, raising doubts about whether it can continue as a business. Its owner, Pyramid Management Group, hired restructuring advisers and has sought a meeting with investors who hold about $285 million of municipal bonds that financed the project, according to a filing last month. ...