Huh?

Strange headline from the Detroit Free Press:
Once-thriving dead malls throughout metro Detroit now struggle to survive
http://www.freep.com/article/20140618/BUSINESS06/306180040/dying-malls-in-metro-detroit-summit-place
Ummm, if they dead malls, how are they struggling to survive, if they are dead.
Maybe, in Detroit, dead means still alive.
Kind of like the City of Detroit.