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

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Care to elaborate?

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  • thegreenguy@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If memory serves me right, the person who invented the mall, was an Austrian immigrant in the US. He wanted to recreate the experience of Austrian walkable city centre streets (which are full of mixed-use buildings, with storefronts at the bottom floor and apartments above). But I think only having shops was deemed more profitable by corporate.

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    • orrk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      the “mall” was invented in France when they started roofing market streets, turning a former street into a long building with shops and houses directly connected

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    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bill Bryson in “made in America” reference this I think

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