When a mall dies, what happens to its corpse? If the mall failed because of too much competition, renovating the mall space and building a new one doesn’t make a whole lot of senese. As America deals with the massive carcasses left over from the heyday of in-person commerce, dead malls are being re-used in many ways: some that you might expect, and others that you might not.
Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor of architecture and urban design at Georgia Tech, explained to NPR that the problem started when American developers have simply built more retail space than we need. We could manage just fine with about half of the space we have. Fine, then: how do we reuse the dying and dead malls that we have?
More
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
3 comments:
Everything need to be convertible just in case.That way in the event of a total failure a mall can be converted to anything desired.Yesteryears malls were built to be malls and nothing else.What a waste.
Each unit had a front door and a back door. Seems to me that housing could be configured somehow.
As early as 1970 I recall it raining as hard IN the old mall as it was outside.Buckets were everywhere catching the rainwater,especially in the hallway next to Tony's Pizza leading outside.It had only been built 2 years earlier! I have many fond memories of that mall but there were indeed issues.The national mall scene was probably no different.
Post a Comment