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the mall was a bad idea to begin with and is entirely a vestige of american excess, having one giant super ultra mega store like 45 minutes away from everyone is ridiculous and doesn't work in a world where we are rapidly seeing the enormous disadvantage of needing a car for absolutely anything. also they were inevitably going to become massive magnets for crime since any decline means more of the mall's open space is unsecured and unsupervised, meaning they only decline further, meaning you end up needing to demolish the whole loving enormous space and spend a shitload of money to not make the place tank in property value due to its repute as a gang fortress. on the flip side, when they do demolish very centrally located malls while keeping the parking lots, they make for very good public event spaces, test courses for drivers ed, and hell, probably a decent place to host racing of some kind if someone organized a way to do it i am glad for its death and unironically see the neighborhood strip mall as an actually better means of doing retail. if strip mall managers were clever they'd take advantage of this by increasing the front promenades of their space and making them pleasant places to just hang around at via plants and benches and maybe spots for kiosks and other small stands. kill the malls, refurbish strip malls into extremely tiny mini-malls
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