Posted on 02/08/2025 12:10:12 PM PST by DallasBiff
While many U.S. malls face anchor store closures and empty parking lots, some are finding new life by becoming housing. Real estate developers are building housing inside of or next to shopping malls as department stores like Macy’s, JCPenney and Sears shrink or cease to exist. At least 192 U.S. malls planned to add housing to their footprint as of January 2022. Dozens of apartment projects at malls are underway in California, Colorado, Florida, Arizona and Texas. The trend not only helps to chip away the housing shortage in the U.S., but also brings people closer to the remaining retail and restaurant spaces in shopping centers. CNBC visited a Macerich housing project at Flatiron Crossing Mall in Broomfield, Colorado as well as the Arcade Mall in Providence, Rhode Island to find out what it is like to live inside a mall
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Flame away.
Self-Deport 30,000,000 illegal aliens, and you’ll get more housing at cheaper prices for actual Americans.
Might as well act now, and make apartments out of those empty malls, before the Muslims turn the sites into Mosques.
I certainly will not flame. I think it’s a great idea. What a handsome building and I’ll bet in the winter it’s a lot more pleasant to have your front door facing inside rather than out. It wouldn’t be for me, and certainly not that building’s tiny apartments, but for those who would like it, great
“Teens” ruined malls. Who wants to risk life and limb with melanated ‘teens’ terrorizing people? Last mall I visited was on Oahu when I lived in Lani Kai years ago. Only went to get tools at one of the last remaining Sears stores.
They’re usually on the outskirts of town. A good place for a jail.
They tore down the Mall of Memphis (Mall of Murder).
I thought they could have turned it into the neighborhood prison.
Go in there, spend some time and credit it to your next sentence.
Kind of like Otis in the Andy Griffith Show.
Now fill the Malls up with tenants instead of shoppers. Won't you have the same problem?
How long before the first "apart-mall" gets taken over by Tren de Agua?
Who rents the kiosks out in the concourse?
Actually, if the mall is in a decent walkable location with a lively urban vibe and a lot within walking range if you stepped outside —as opposed to a big stand-alone mall in the middle of a vast parking lot — it might be a reasonably good place to live for someone interested in a tiny apartment. Which is lots of people. A door entering onto a concourse is not much different from a door entering onto a dreary hallway in a typical apartment building. The big compromise is that one’s only window is open to the concourse, so I expect that most people simply have their blinds drawn all the time.
Not that a lot of Gen Zers would notice, given that they’re focused on a screen of one kind or another most of their waking hours.
If I was much younger and was on a fairly short term assignment in some unfamiliar big city, I might be tempted to try one for six months or a year. Location depending ....
I’d like to have the whole mall to live in, so I could see how long it took to fill it with junk.
I remember when malls were a great place to hang out. Last couple malls I visited were Windward mall and Ala Moana when I lived on Oahu. Ala Moana was very nice because I am a fish lover and could sit for hours and read a book while watching the koi ponds. Melanated drones from the base ruined that when recruitment standards were lowered. Windward mall had Sears and that’s where I got my tools.
“I visited was on Oahu when I lived in Lani Kai years ago. Only went to get tools at one of the last remaining Sears stores.”
I bought a tool box and set at an Oahu Sears in 1970 shortly after I was transferred to there!
How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S..
Amazon owner winks and a few others.
Credit cards are handy don’t be without one huh Moe.
Exactly.
“Self-Deport 30,000,000 illegal aliens”
How to enforce it?
IF YOU CLEAR OUT 40 MILLION ILLEGALS-—THERE IS NO “HOUSING SHORTAGE.
If developers and the respective municipal city planners can overcome the logistics of the electrical & plumbing (water/waste) service differences between residential apartment buildings and the mall developments, more power to them.
But, I’m curious:
Since the trends in all the leftist cities are to get people out of cars and all new developments have a fraction of parking spaces to tenants, I wonder what they’re going to do with the acres of paved parking lots surrounding these properties which were meant to serve MANY more vehicles (customers) than tenants?
Now THAT's the best idea I've read yet.
I don’t understand how the girl is living in former retail space, but her apartment is only 250 sq. ft.
Otherwise, I think it’s really interesting, and works be especially good for for retirement housing.
Agreed. That’s an interesting use of dead malls.
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