This editorial was published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail on April 13: The Charleston Town Center, a down-on-its-luck mall in the middle of downtown that once was the crown jewel of retail shopping in the region and the largest in-city mall east of the Mississippi River, has a new owner and, supposedly, a new future. Just what that will be is hard to tell. The Hull Property Group, based in Augusta, Georgia, announced it had purchased the mall in a news release issued Monday. So far, a purchase price has not been disclosed. U.S. National Bank acquired the property for $35 million after ownership defaulted on a loan more than two years ago. The bank put the property up for sale in February.