I am posting this link because this guy has filmed 28 dead or dying malls across the country. I’ve been to a couple of these malls. Likewise, you also might recognize some, or might also have been to them …. and, I thought you might find that interesting.
Below is the link for all 28 malls;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Cdav9MhDg&list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ&index=3
Note: Skip the first 60 seconds or so of each vide0 … weird intros. I know Admin has done “rotting malls” posts. So, if this is a “repeat” video, my apologies. I just can’t recall all the thousands of posts done here.
It’s getting to dangerous to go shopping . Shopping malls are targeted by criminals. That and the ease of internet shopping will eventually put to death most of the big malls unless they are in mostly white neighborhoods.
Hell ,Now days I carry my pistol just to go Wal-Mart.
Greetings,
Malls need infrastructure and people and are expensive to maintain. It is much easier for our overlords to peddle crap to us in other ways. Of course, as these places close, so do opportunities for entry level work and experience.
Depressing – and the future
Yet another false flag. Those malls arent dead and dying. They’re just crisis actors.
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When it was conceived in the mid 70’s, the rust belt still had plenty of manufacturing jobs. By the early 80’s the decline was well underway. I’d bet a steak dinner that the remodel in the late 90’s was mostly paid for with tax payer money. Since the gov paid for it, I’d bet the mall had to hire a political hack to redecorate it. That’s where the hideous carpet came from. Amazon was the final death knell.
A million sqft is plenty of space to hide a semi concentration camp right out in public.
Rainman….
Turn them into free Section 8 housing, free Black colleges, Head Start Centers, Job Corps, County Health Clinics, minority kindergartens, outreach, welfare offices, Employment and Job Training Centers, Parole Offices, Police Substations, etc.
disgusting, but what does one expect from an area near shittburgh pa?
carpet in a mall?
some seriously stoooopid planners there…
This loss in retail space is a healthy response to overbuilding of retail in the 70s and 80s.
With a little imagination these interesting sheltered spaces can be repurposed for all kinds of stuff, for cents on the dollar.
A complete college campus is a no-brainer.
http://gizmodo.com/7-dead-shopping-malls-that-found-surprising-second-live-1634073681
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/a-new-life-for-dead-malls/387001/
No birds, no bats, no rodentia evident in the corridors? As the planters go “jungle,” it would seem natural to have them and the rest of these spaces become habitat for wildlife.
Very sad, but to some degree satisfying. Maybe rebirth of main street is on the horizon?
Cdubbya,
Interesting referbs. My only rebutal would be – with reference to public works – that it is easy to rescue something when you have large amounts of public funds to do so.
Moreover, I don’t really view the decline of these malls as necessarily one of doom and gloom. I think large malls are one of those things that looked great on paper but were not long term sustainable to begin with. In fact the big box model in general is vulnerable in this sense. I can steer a small to medium size business quicker in many aspects (even if I don’t have the buying power I am more flexible in many other ways) and as such I suffer less from disconnect and hubris. Although I will admit some days I’d like to take a blow torch to mine it is by and large manageable in comparison.
Target is a great example of disconnect and hubris in Canada. A lot of malls are suffering as well as a result. Square footage of that size must be productive and maintained at all times or else it falls into disrepair and a surrounding death spiral ensues.
It’s less doom and gloom and more natural consequences related to poor planning. The system is simply shaking itself out and moving to a more realistic business model. Creative destruction??
Once these malls lose a major anchor store – it’s the death rattle.
Also when strip malls lose a large store (like when they consolidated Office Depot / Max) – it looks really bad – a huge empty space. Like a missing tooth. This too is the death rattle.
Damn, you old Swamp Mutt…that was good….much truth occurs in square footage..
Wow, this is sad. I grew up in this mall when it was at it’s prime. My first job was at Wolfies Restaurant there. This mall would be packed all year round. This video brought back lots of great memories with friend from my high school years. I automatically remembered when my friend put dish soap in the fountain. Stupid kids but we have some good memories there. In about the early 90’s there started to be lots of problems due to busing from the City of Pittsburgh. At that point most of the customers headed to South Hills Village where they felt safer.
I visited this guy’s utube page and watched the Fredericktowne Mall in Frederick, MD video. It closed in 2013. I had two clients in that mall back in the 80’s. I’m flabbergasted. Just shows us how much marrow has been sucked from the Middle Class.
middle class $ gone and “safety issues.”
We do not have to wait for a collapse…
we are breaking off parts of FUSA a hunk
at a time. Harden your house. Some folks don’t
like white people.