the Shopping Mall.
 

i havent been in a long time. this past Valentines day force me there. i rode my motorcycle to make sure i got a parking space. my fear was stupid..it was a ghost town. my mall started charging for parking and that is not helping apparently.

i think the Mall is a goner. if i owned one, i would be drawing up plans for something else. condos or something. mixed use, condos on top, shopping underneath.

how is "mall health" in your area?

We have 4. Two are still going strong. Those are in the 'nicer' parts of town. The other two are gone.

One sits vacant and closed with plans to tear it down and build mixed condos/retail/office space. The other just sits there as a covered place for old people to walk and has the local DMV in it, a Weight Watchers weigh in place and that's about it.

Kind of sad really but we are a city of strip malls. Every intersection here is a strip mall. It's ridiculous how many strip malls there are here. And everywhere you turn, they're building little all-inclusive cities that people move into and never leave because everything they need is in that 'town'.

Haven't been in one in over a decade....never did go much. The one I drive by all the time has gone under and is now owned by the local university as part of their plans.

Malls = T-Rex ....only the skeletons will remain in a few more years imo.

We have one main mall in town, it used to be a big thriving place of business, and weekend shows, now it is a skeleton smattering of stores, somehow staying open with dropping sales. Big retail has really bitten the dust with Amazon, and Walmart.com, so stores that didn't evolve like Sears, Penney, Elder Beerman, have slowly been cutting people, budgets, and stores.

High end does not seem to be dead. University Village in Seattle is packed all the time. It's an outdoor mall and even in cold crummy weather the place is jammed. While the low end (sears, macy's, Jc Penny) anchored malls are ghost towns.

It's an outdoor mall and even in cold crummy weather the place is jammed.

Looks to me like they have been using shut down malls for indoor drone racing!

The two malls I have been to have been pretty empty.

The huge one is upping its game by remodeling and putting more high end shops.

The other is in a really nice part of town but seems pretty empty.

The only time we go to the malls is to catch a movie.

Kinda sad, online shopping is killing the malls... and with with the malls go the jobs for the young people.

nice! "anchored" commercial real estate folks always dropping that word.

i need to check out the mega mall in San Francisco.

yea, my wife taught me the lingo. :D

Those anchors drive foot trafffic to the other tenants. Without a big draw the others will suffer. And without anchors, ownership absorbs more of the real estate tax burden. So, it’s a double hit to above and below the line.

The enclosed mall is an endangered species especially if not in or near a major metro like the Short Hills Mall in NJ or The Westchester in NY. These are considered upscale and can offer an experience in addition to a transaction on goods.

A lot of real estate investors I work with are transitioning their regional mall tenants from traditional retail to service to stave off the Amazon effect. After all, you can deliver a haircut…yet.

A neighbor of mine where I grew up designed a local shopping mall. The mall thrived in the late 60's -70's and even 80's. He died about 15 years ago. His mall was demolished about 10 years ago.

I'm glad he went (due to old age) before his mall and didn't have to see it die.

Around here- the local mall cannot get tenants, and has been rented out creatively. For example- the local train club has one store for a display. Several gyms/ workout clubs have other stores. A local girl scout group has another store- perhaps it's a ballerina club (I can't remember). A slot car racing club has one store. Another slot car club will get another store.

I think the chain stores should become indoor go- cart tracks.


I like the place!

Here is a link(which might not work)

it didnt work- here's a cut and paste of the article-from a gag news site

TAUNTON - Staunton Mall VA voted "Most Relaxing for Mall Santas" for a third consecutive year. "It's a dream assignment," said Christopher Kring, a 38-year Santa veteran. "After years working in thriving malls with actual customers and live children, the Staunton Mall is a welcome, quiet oasis." With an average of 0.004 children a week and a quieter-than-a-library atmosphere, the Staunton Mall has long been a top destination for stressed and overworked mall Santas.

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This got me google searching my neighbor's mall from "back in the day"- and I found this surprising pelican appropriate pic:

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A lot of malls will/are going broke. Some will always do well, like Aventura Mall in North Miami. Depends on the local area and economy.

Around here, target seem to go in there and rent these mega space out at one end of the mall. Most I see, their lots are still full. We like to go to this small chain restaurant in our local mall (Santa Anita, next to the track) and can't ever find parking. I assume its doing well. Other then that, I don't go to those places.

We got a mall around here called “Mall of America” that seems to be doing pretty good!

Local malls are in decline. The streets to the malls are lined with big box stores and fast food that seem to be booming.

East and West of Charlotte, not so well, south and north of Charlotte they are buzzing.

The one around here looks like it got mauled.



(I'll be here all week).