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cbelt3 wrote:
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Next developer plans.. how to repurpose mall properties ?
Server farms? Fullfillment centers?
Not enough power for server farms. Not enough floor load for fulfillment centers.
My company looked at the empty mall near our company for use as a potential distribution center or even a manufacturing building. The floor wasn't capable of any sort of industrial load. The building structure could not handle anything other than the roof. Pretty much a shed.
The old South Park Mall (insert Cartman joke here) in Union City, GA (just south of Atlanta) got converted into a movie studio. Not an option everywhere of course, but I thought that was a pretty creative use of the existing facility.
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Will Collier wrote:
The old South Park Mall (insert Cartman joke here) in Union City, GA (just south of Atlanta) got converted into a movie studio.
But how many sequels of
Mall Cop do you think will fly?
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Will Collier wrote:
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Next developer plans.. how to repurpose mall properties ?
Server farms? Fullfillment centers?
Not enough power for server farms. Not enough floor load for fulfillment centers.
My company looked at the empty mall near our company for use as a potential distribution center or even a manufacturing building. The floor wasn't capable of any sort of industrial load. The building structure could not handle anything other than the roof. Pretty much a shed.
The old South Park Mall (insert Cartman joke here) in Union City, GA (just south of Atlanta) got converted into a movie studio. Not an option everywhere of course, but I thought that was a pretty creative use of the existing facility.
Lots of filming going on in the Atlanta area these days. That will change, eventually.
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"Next developer plans.. how to repurpose mall properties ?"
I was in the Dayton, OH area the last two years for Hamvention. Driving from the campground to the venue (Hara Arena), I was shocked at how many derelict malls I saw (and the Hara Arena should have been abandoned YEARS ago; it was a disaster). LOTS of malls and mini-malls across America that are vacant.
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testcase wrote:
"Next developer plans.. how to repurpose mall properties ?"
I was in the Dayton, OH area the last two years for Hamvention. Driving from the campground to the venue (Hara Arena), I was shocked at how many derelict malls I saw (and the Hara Arena should have been abandoned YEARS ago; it was a disaster). LOTS of malls and mini-malls across America that are vacant.
"Dead Malls" has been a thing since the '80's, there were BBS's tracking this phenomenon before the internets came along. Quite frankly their heyday was the '70's, but developers kept building them as a kind of "one trick" approach to retailing that was already problematic over 30 years ago.
Sam Walton and Walmart were a major example of the problem with malls. His stores rarely were connected with malls and pulled shoppers away in droves.
