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If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.

Imagine apartments built into what used to be department stores, (Oh, you’re JC Penny 203? I’m at Sears 106). Get those old arcades up and running. Set up meal stations at the food court. Once people actually live there, stores will start to move back in.

If I’m unable to finish my life in my own home, that doesn’t sound like a terrible option.

LostWanderer ,

I would love to see this kind of repurposing of properties to be far more common! Malls tend to be fairly central, so they make ideal locations for being nearby everything a person could need in a residential setting.

Guadin ,
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This isn't a too shabby of an idea. It probably won't be used but a mix of stores and homes in one building sounds great.

dan1101 ,

That would be a cool place to live to me.

Rhaedas ,

The idea of apartments centered around a grocery plaza has been a thing for a while. It's almost an answer, except it still requires transportation to everything else. Plus the stores tend to be higher prices to support the cost of property and because they can.

Kaboom ,

Add a metro station, a large parking garage, should work

fine_sandy_bottom ,

apartments centered around a grocery plaza has been a thing for a while

Do you mean like… a town?

Rhaedas ,

A town is a bit more than that, but it is how towns typically began, from a central trading place and nearby settlements. Only this is a planned concrete parking lot and established chain along with fully built domiciles, already in a city/town's jurisdiction.

dustyData ,

Only this is a planned concrete parking lot

That’s where it all falls down. Mandatory parking space kills cities. The point of a centralized commercial area with residential around is that people will walk to it.

roguetrick ,

ITT: people want cyberpunk megabuildings

verdantbanana ,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

mall walks!

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

With those moving walkways you see in airports.

GeekFTW ,

I’m down and claiming the candy store in 113!

Rhynoplaz OP ,

Instead of puzzles and bingo night, we’re having GoldenEye tournaments and D&D night!

blackluster117 ,
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No Oddjob!

Rhynoplaz OP ,

That’s just assumed. Sign me up for the Pistols: License to Kill league.

Carrolade ,

I’ll take a Payless Shoes. Usually at one of the ends, sort of tucked away. Good bit of space, and quick access to the parking lot.

Oh yeah, like 90% of that parking lot can get repurposed into a park. Throw a bus stop in there.

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