But if the last few decades had made anything clear, it’s that a walled-off mall made it all too easy to think no one was ...

Secret Mall Apartment' chronicles lives of artists ... Soon, they realized they needed to wall off the space or security might stumble on them. So they began to sneak in cinderblocks.

He was banned 18 years ago, after he and seven other artists were found living in an unused space inside the mall. The group walled off a room with a secret entrance using concrete blocks ...