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Post by jeffolie on Mar 2, 2010 18:05:20 GMT -6
Dead shopping malls verge on what I think of as merely bad business ventures. Governments enable such with tax and zoning actions. Where is the border between malfeasance by corporations, governments and merely bad business ventures? I assume that corruption had a part in such large land usage. I do not like the waste in lives and treasure but at least I expect few died. www.deadmalls.com/Mall of misfortune There was nothing else to do, because the South China Mall, which opened with great fanfare in 2005, is not just the world’s largest. With fewer than a dozen stores scattered through a space designed to house 1,500, it is also the world’s emptiest – a dusty, decrepit complex of buildings marked by peeling paint, dead light bulbs, and dismembered mannequins. www.thenational.ae/article/20080612/REVIEW/206990272/1042
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Mar 3, 2010 4:27:15 GMT -6
Excellent concept for a site. Dead malls are a growing epidemic.
But after reading the small list for California, I have to wonder how badly a mall has to be before it's included.
Maybe there should also be a list of those not completely dead, but on cardiac life support.
The Buena Park (CA) mall comes to mind. With at least 20 recently vacated office spaces, it certainly should be on some kind of endangered list.
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