You can learn a lot about a place by how easily you can do some great Christmas shopping.
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Yet another failed mall (this time in Milwaukee, WI) proves to be a drag on—and an active harm to—its surroundings.
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The trajectories of two local shopping districts—a mall built in the mid-80s, and a historic downtown—provide an object lesson on the power of the “chaotic but smart” approach to growing a city.
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The federal government wants to help convert repurpose empty commercial space into apartments. Is this a plan that helps solves two problems at once — the affordable housing crisis, and repurposing the malls that now stand empty in our cities — or a bad idea?
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The closing of the mall’s anchor store exposes how fragile the community’s business model is, providing an opening to shift approach.
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The problems created by the style of development just keep piling on.
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When it comes to the mall, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
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The closing of the mall’s anchor store exposes how fragile the community’s business model is, providing an opening to shift approach.
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Cities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle, while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
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A visual depiction of just how much American land is full of shopping malls and big box stores.
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What's it like to watch a shopping mall die?
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Redeveloping suburban sites like this is a great way to make areas of the region more walkable, but new buildings alone cannot do it, especially when those new buildings are cut off from the larger community.
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That's a lot of accumulated bad planning, and a lot of surface parking, but now it's all water under the bridge. Those costs are sunk, that ship has sailed.
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We’ve built too much of the wrong stuff in the wrong places and market demand may never catch up or reinvent these landscapes.
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Strip malls are not the result of the free market choosing a preferred development pattern; They're the result of government regulations.
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In a thinly veiled attempt to keep "those people" out of a local mall, this spring, the Valley West Mall in West Des Moines demanded that a bus stop that services the mall be removed from its property.
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Toms River, NJ was built as a collection of convenient commodities and it will be discarded once it exceeds its usefulness.
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This week was all about the promise, the risk and the decline of big box stores in America.
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Suburbia cannot and will not be retrofitted to a substantially different model of development. But a small portion may be salvageable.
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Cities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
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