Malls could have been a pretty good solution to a growing problem. I say this because I live a few minutes from a defunct mall that predates the behemoths of the 80s and 90s, and I've thought about how it could be made useful. Imagine a mall that had a grocer, a butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker. Add in an ACE Hardware, post office and Doctors office and it would be pretty useful. I think malls could have been a useful response to American's car driven city design, but for some reason they just wound up being consoooom product centers.
Edit: used the word "useful" four times like a grade schooler, leaving it as a monument to poor writing.
More seriously, that’s an interesting idea. I do think something like that could have potential—like a small downtown or a city square built into a single building with lots of parking.
Shopping malls seem to be on their way out. I read that they have too much vacant space to be viable for the most part. The dindus who hang out at malls are part of the problem.
An outdoor mall by where I live seems to be doing okay, but I've always felt like outdoor malls defeat the purpose of malls, which is to have a bunch of stores under one roof.
That's what American malls used to be like, until both the digital age of buying shit off of Amazon and the fact that the Targets and Walmarts of the world became miniature malls with fookin groceries to boot. Why go seven different stores when I can get every name brand thing at Target and the Dick's Sporting Goods it's attached to?
Crazy but it's true! JCPenney is mostly in shopping malls though. (fyi malls still exist too!)
Malls could have been a pretty good solution to a growing problem. I say this because I live a few minutes from a defunct mall that predates the behemoths of the 80s and 90s, and I've thought about how it could be made useful. Imagine a mall that had a grocer, a butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker. Add in an ACE Hardware, post office and Doctors office and it would be pretty useful. I think malls could have been a useful response to American's car driven city design, but for some reason they just wound up being consoooom product centers.
Edit: used the word "useful" four times like a grade schooler, leaving it as a monument to poor writing.
Did you just describe a mall?
Shopping malls seem to be on their way out. I read that they have too much vacant space to be viable for the most part. The dindus who hang out at malls are part of the problem.
An outdoor mall by where I live seems to be doing okay, but I've always felt like outdoor malls defeat the purpose of malls, which is to have a bunch of stores under one roof.
Somehow that shithole outlasted everything else that was in the mall in my area and i have no idea how.
America sucks lol. Malls in other countries are amazing. Full of stores, girls, and everything else you could want.
That's what American malls used to be like, until both the digital age of buying shit off of Amazon and the fact that the Targets and Walmarts of the world became miniature malls with fookin groceries to boot. Why go seven different stores when I can get every name brand thing at Target and the Dick's Sporting Goods it's attached to?