Fort Creedy (and Perryn, too, I guess)

I don't know about the chest thumping and screaming, never much liked that about malls either. But, the drop off in supply search rates really isn't that bad, there are enough NTs around to where they are actually more NT accessible than all but about two malls in the game, and it is one square defensible entry instead of 4. It is very possible to hold the forts and turn them into very effective supply bases, even if they don't get as high search rates as malls. They provide the same function a mall would but better in many ways.