It would be cheaper and quicker to bulldoze and start over.
I think it would be cool to have a defunct Macy’s all to myself.
:)
Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, WA is undergoing a huge refit as a residential center. When Sears closed they basically pivoted and started building a huge residential development, and one right across the street. I have no doubt it will eventually be connected by some walking overpass bridge eventually too.
Amazon has brought this on.
Agreed
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.
“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.
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.