Molson Hart

So there's no need for this parking. And the ceilings are way too low for storage. The whole thing is mess. To boot, unlike warehouse lots, no one wants to live or work in a low-ceiling concrete box without windows.

The real estate term is “functional obsolescence” A nice way of saying their best use is to be bulldozed.

There’s going to be so much of this. Going to have a crazy effect on our cities.

I am hopeful many of those malls get redeveloped into multi use walkable developments.

Hope so too but Will only happen if the malls were in excellent locations like Northpark in Dallas. I wonder if it’s cheaper to start from scratch or to demolish and keep the poured concrete? Probably start from scratch.

Concrete would come out because you need to run new utilities. It’s probably also questionable after 30-40-50 years.

Why do you need to run new utilities? Pipes for residential on floors 3+?

Let’s say you make it housing or a portion of it housing... Assuming (unlikely) that want the housing where the mall/retail building is then you’ll likely want to have bathrooms+kitchens in each one. The same kind of mess applies to making it light industrial, too.