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We should repurpose these dead malls. On that note -- how feasible would it be to buy a mall and turn it into an indoor city? Line the top with solar panels, and it could be neat.
0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15922440
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Park_Mall#2007-present...
This isn't the case in a lot of other countries/cities; Dubai for example has multiple malls which look entirely different with it's own unique theme (or themes). They have an overlap of brand name stores, yet the business is brisk. Can American mall owners learn something from this?
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To me, a lot of these functions seem like things that could easily be available to the individual (like AC) or should be provided to the general public, not just in malls (like being a "safe area"). But thank you, that does clarify it indeed. :)
I’m going to clear this up really quick because what OP said was extremely weird. People do not go to malls for AC and I live in the Deep South where it humid as hell. Safe Area is a weird choice of words. I guess it means parents can drop kids off at a place that has decent rent a cops. Generally keeping kids safe from themselves or weirdos I presume. My parents would’ve never said I like dropping my kids at the mal…
Maybe someone from the US can clarify this for me: are people upset about this as an indicator for the economic changes happening at the moment, or are they genuinely concerned about the malls themselves? Never having left Europe myself, I could relate to the former, but not to the latter. What makes those malls so... relevant?
Amazon can automate the hell out of getting goods to me, so we essentially don't need 1000's of stores and millions of retail workers anymore.