When moles fail and they do close a there's like thousands of square feet going unused. There have been some cases of adapted for use, where a new business or something is taken over a dead mole. Highland mall outside austin, texas was turned over the past decade plus into the leadership campus for austin community college. And i really see the malls as an opportunity, and i would love for people to get more creative about what tod with them.
No teenager in America in the 1980s could avoid the gravitational pull of the mall, not even author Alexandra Lange. In her new book, Meet Me by the Fountain, Lange writes about how malls were conceptually born out of a lack of space for people to convene in American suburbs. Despite the fact indoor shopping malls are no longer in their heyday, malls have not gone away completely. Lange writes about the history of mall culture, and how the mall became a ubiquitous part of American life.
Meet Us by the Fountain