DEAD MALL SERIES : Buzzing Lights Big Problems : Crystal River Mall in FL & Warr
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYCJRRSfDP8
Its so odd how the first mall was basically a circus tent with 4 small wings.
Im actually curious, is the shopping mall format dead in the US ot these are more like places that eventually went bankrupt due to specific reasons?
The mall I see it ( in America ) is becoming a distant memory. There is ( soon to be was ) 2 malls in my town, 1 that is survived by a few anchors like a JC Penny, Dillards, and a Sears, and another in the inner parts of town that was just a Church and a Elderly hangout. ( The Grocery Store, Theater and other shops next door to it do not count, as they were not connected nor had any entrances from inside the mall )
Malls are not completely dead here, but they are becoming quite vacant for a variety of reasons. Most of it can be chocked up to bad locations ( i.e Rolling Acres, Amigoland ), Bad neighborhoods ( i.e Randall Park Mall, Military Circle ), Bad Economy ( I.e Owings Mills, Steamtown ) lastly but certainly not least is Over saturation.
My town had 2 of these malls and in the end only 1 is worth visiting, leaving the other to languish away.
It's safe to say that the Mall boom of the 60s was the product of its time. It depended on us to treat it as the new way to get the group together, watch a movie and do some window shopping. Though of course we're currently in the year of 2018 communicating or getting together with friends isn't as trivial as it once was, and entertainment these days has grown to more than just watching a movie now it has to be an experience.
With friends at hand, and experiences becoming more closer to home than they were 5 decades ago the mall ceased becoming the hub of the town.
figured economy would be a major issue, but it shocks me to know that some towns have more than one mall. in what kind of insane planning two malls could host a town's entire population's interest?
I've seen something somewhat similar over here, not specifically with malls but with entire business districts going dead as people moved over to malls.
Yes and no. It really depends entirely where you are and what type of traffic that area gets.
I see outlet malls booming and in the metro areas the big malls are doing fine for the most part. The super high-end malls are doing good too cause of the wealth in the area. All the small towns I've been into the malls are dead, struggling, or semi-decent but slow during normal hours.
Most of the malls that are still alive around here just host designer clothing stores and not much else.
I love how the Warren mall part turns into an urbex video. That place is falling apart behind the scenes.
all of the malls near me are dead or dying i miss hanging out at the mall when i was a kid
My area has a big mall that acts as the main mall for the surrounding 100 miles and it gets really busy during Christmas time. It does fairly well even during the other parts of the year and I think it does so well because its in a decent location (middle class families and rich old people surround the area) and has really high end brands (Louis Vuitton, Tesla, etc) that attract people from afar.
This mall (built in the 1990's) killed a nearby mall down the road (built in 1960's) and the . I've been to the dead mall before and it was just an empty food court and a few music stores. What surprised me is that rather than clearing the deal mall, they basically turned it into Sodosopa from Southpark and its had phenomenal success. Maybe its because I'm a broke college student but I don't see how overpriced malls survive these days when there are so many other things to do for entertainment.
Malls need to evolve to be hangout spots less reliant on shopping in order to stay alive. Online shopping has replaced brick and mortar in most cases, it's faster and cheaper, and has greater stock. Malls here, as most should, have focused on clothing, small businesses, and restaurants. Food and clothes are two things you can't really find online. Niche stores survive here in malls too, our mall has a cyber cafe for Xbox gaming, a bunch of Pokemon stores, etc. Here too it's common to have an apartment complex attached to the mall, which helps make shopping in the mall more convenient than online shopping.
Mapps with ideally be replaced by a more all-in-one community structure akin to SimCity Arcos.
I think malls would be great as general office buildings. You have a lot of space to walk around, the architecture isn't normally depressing, there's a food court for lunch breaks, and furniture everywhere to take a break or socialize with people from other businesses or people wanting to visit you during work.
The Houston Galleria is a good example of a mall remaining very relavent due to it's role as a social center. Offices, hotels, apartments, all merged into a single sprawling building with shops, restaurants, and so forth, as well as entertainment like theatre and ice rinks, to ensure that people have more reasons to shop physically than online. It's a social experience.
so its more of poor placementsin thevery end.
I live in a city centre so the reason people don't go to the mall is usually because they're actually too busy. Is it normal in america for malls to be out in the middle of nowhere?
If you've watched the dead mall series for a while, you'll find a familiar backstory to these "far out" malls, which is usually there was a bunch of communities growing rapidly for one industry or another, so these malls put themselves in the middle of all that action, even if the location itself was in the middle of nowhere, they wanted a slice of all those pies. And for a while, the mall itself was reason enough for people to come. But the malls that are now dying are dying because the resident communities they put themselves between are stagnate or shrinking too.
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