Posted on 08/17/2021 8:15:30 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
A bill aimed at converting commercial properties into residential ones was quietly signed into law late last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The measures is meant to increase housing options through a targeted effort. Distressed hotels, shopping centers, and other commercial buildings could all be converted into much needed housing.
Throughout the state there is a lack of affordable, and even median income housing. It’s part of the Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity Act.
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Keep adding illegals, complain about lack of housing, add in free rent....what could go wrong?
Collin Creek Mall in Plano (TX) is undergoing a conversion to mixed commercial / residential space. Not sure how far along they are, or how it will turn out.
I could create an entire world in one.
String up some UV lights, plant trees and shrubs on one side, and the other half would be a huge race course for the dogs to run in.
Look for the business mix in the basement floor to shift from mostly retail to food, grocery, banking, and medical services. I can see mini-surgical centers, security, dental, vision, legal all having brick and mortar representation in these villages.
They just dropped one of these monstrosities into Scottsdale in a prime location.
Suddenly we are seeing tagging of buildings and a big jump in crime.
The Scottsdale City Council made this happen.
What could go wrong?
“signed into law late last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.”
did he unresign? how is he still signing bills into law if he resigned?
I already live in a 1700s log house with small, deep windows made for shooting out of, during Indian attacks, so lack of light is not unusual.
Some Macy’s stores had huge glass sides and sky lights in the ceilings.
I’d be upgrading.
:D
Kinda where I was going. Roll in some stock tanks for ponds, and a lot of soil.
I read the SHORT article. The last sentence: “Now let’s begin the hard work of properly implementing HONDA(catch-name for the bill) and ensuring more New Yorkers have a home they can afford.”
The free market would take care of it but the left has to implement it their way with our money.
I’ve driven past empty shopping malls. The idea was always sound. If they’re out in the middle of nowhere they’d make good jails and shelters. Get those low life types away from the rest of us.
“It would be cheaper and quicker to bulldoze and start over.”
A movie theater in a mall near us is to be scraped off and condos built in its place.
That POS Cuomo is trying to do as much damage as he can on his way out the door.
New Yorkers deserve him.
Plenty of hotels have converted to regular housing without the need for armed thugs to make it happen.
Yup.
Kinda like “Silent Running” without all the murder and madness.
;D
I could only imagine a former shopping mall filled with homeless, psychotic, drug-addicted zombies.
Sounds like a horror movie. A group of teens sneaks in and finds themselves trapped, forced to escape the hordes of shuffling meth-addled screamers, tent fires, needles, and human feces.
I was going to say the same thing. Maybe not with highrises, but surely with malls. But just imagining gutting them, rewiring and replumbing them and then constructing interior walls to form housing units out of a mall would be a massive expense.
On the flip side, malls are maybe 1-3 stories tall in most cases. Would be better to build up higher as well.
They should turn them into hydro gardens.
Lots of space, great ventilation, and controlled environments make it the perfect place to grow produce.
Then dig up the parking lots and turn them into pastures.
Urban farming does more for the community than the malls ever did.
Future cities; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGQu1y4BZSs
And who will clean it? Certainly not the street peoples, addicts that nove in there.
Perhaps well meaning volunteers from the socially active former Christian churches that dominate the formerly beautiful old neighborhoods
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