[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[onedoug]

Throw the bums in there.

[Wuli]

None of the malls in the report were giant (the new Amazon Hq2 will be multiple times the size of all of them), and all of them closed years ago. There demise is not of recent empact and not likely to have current, new impact on political developments in or from the states with the reported “ghost” malls.

What does see somewhat of an economic mistake though, is, many government and non-government institutions have been expending their infrastructure, and it would seem in some cases, with the right match, making new uses of some of the ghost malls (with tons of parking already) would be less expensive than many brand new builds that institutions are doing. I could see an entire college campus inside some of the ghost malls.

[Trillian]

I guess no one wants to get beat up by large groups of “teens”.

[ADemocratNoMore]

The mall in my fair city was built in 1977 and 30 years later the last store closed, kind of. While all of the anchor stores were gone by then a factory outlet replaced one of them and a truck driving school lasted for another half decade or so. The mall remained open, running on minimal infrastructure - only light coming from skylights, just enough heat to keep the pipes from freezing, one person on premises acting as building manager / security guard, and, over 30 storefront churches. Apparently there were several people hundred people there on Sundays.

The hangers-on also included a museum dedicated to the late, great Euclid Beach amusement park, also run out of business at the end of the 1969 season due to a growing tide of ferals over it’s last years. The mall also had a lady who gave music and art lessons in a former cooking utensil store. I had occasion to visit her a half dozen times in the last few years the mall was still there. One entrance was still open and the interior itself was not in disrepair, it was just “empty”, like walking into the set of some si-fi movie where everybody suddenly vanished.

A few months ago the mall was demolished and the property is now to be used for an Amazon distribution center which is currently being built.

[Albion Wilde]

When I see pictures like these, it's so sad that the managment companies don't provide some kind of recycling days, or call in the local companies that specialize in it. When I renovated my first house I got doors, windows, cabinets and sinks from Cleveland Wrecking.

Every week I look up at the graying, sagging drop ceiling tiles in our church and mentally count the number and the cost of labor to replace them; but it's beyond my ability or that of the congregation at this time. Yet malls like this have miles of materials just mouldering that community members might be able to use.

When our local mall finally gave up the ghost, huge amounts of building materials were just bulldozed, shattered and crushed.

[foreverfree]

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