Maya Pines, 17, lives and works in Atlantic Station in Midtown Atlanta. The mall gets its name from the steel mill that operated there in the early 1900s. Julia Rapoport Youth Radio.

Maya Pines, 17, lives and works in Atlantic Station in Midtown Atlanta. The mall gets its name from the steel mill that operated there in the early 1900s. Malaika Taylor.

Teens used to be all over malls, working the registers and wandering the walkways. But now fewer of them have retail jobs and it appears they prefer tech goodies at home to going to the mall.