Our mall revitalized itself by reinventing itself. It still has some standard mall stores like Ulta and Spencer’s Gifts, but it also has an archery range, a huge antique mall, a collectibles/comic book store and, best of all, a pinball arcade with unlimited play for $10 on weekend evenings. The food court also has several locally-owned businesses. It’s surprisingly nice.
That sounds super cool! Arcade bars are always such a blast I’m surprised there’s not more of them, or at least just arcades, given how popular they’ve become again.
This is just an arcade, all ages. I take my 13-year-old daughter sometimes. Which I think is even better.
You have a whole mall in your mall?
Basically. If you consider an antique mall a kind of mall.
Yo dawg
Meanwhile my local malls are just normal malls with normal mall stores. Yet they’re thriving.
Keeping the design of the mall itself up-to-date goes a long way. The ones in my city that were stuck in the 80s and 90s all failed.
There’s only one mall that I know of that’s dying in Metro Detroit. The rest of them are all fine and healthy. The one that’s dying didn’t even try to stay afloat it seems like.
They tore down at least two in the city I used to live in the Midwest. Now I’m on the west coast and I’ve seen one turn down and another converted in the past few years.
Malls in large population centers are doing alright. It’s the small city malls that died
My local mall did most of this… but all as cheaply and mechanically as possible. No one goes to the arcade because the games aren’t good, it’s too expensive, the setup is very much an after thought, and it’s not designed in any way to attract people. There’s a shooting gallery thing with airsoft, again it’s over priced so no one goes to it. We had a sweet antique store in ours when I was a kid with a whole themed hallway that people from this city still frequently reminisce about, but now it’s just empty white halls, closed stores and dark dead ends. It’s very much a conservatives attempt to keep things running without investing too much.
That really sucks. The mall here isn’t packed by any means, but there’s a decent amount of foot traffic. I’m there a lot because my daughter likes to dress punky, which means taking her to Hot Topic and Spencer’s Gifts when she won’t accept me ordering it for her online. She wants to feel how spiky the collars are for herself, I guess.
Right-wing propaganda bots moving in like Spirit Halloween stores
There’s a bong shop that sells Wehrmacht battle flags for some reason
Right next to the crack pipes it also sells
I feel like this kind of place has to sell katanas.
Does Spencer’s count?
I’m pretty sure Spencer’s is like a malls heart. It would instantly die if removed.
As someone who isn’t in the US, my experience with malls is that it’s the place that you go to whenever you end up in a city that has died.
Cities die when they are mismanaged or when the population grows too old and there’s nobody left to manage the local shops.
From what I’ve gathered, the US, being efficient as always, directly built dead cities.
Shots fired
That kinda makes malls sound awesome.
And makes the vastly inferior microblogging version of xvideos sound much better than it is.
I love watching videos of people exploring dead malls. It’s so fascinating.
not in my area, but I surely like to visit his
The old mall in the next town had a shop for “Adult Novelties”.
Dude! Not cool!
It’s 11pm. I’m in the middle of bumfuck west texas.
And now I want a fucking Orange Julius!
Not cool, dude.
News stand…when has twitter ever had news. More like a crazy person in the corner shouting to the wind
Twitter has historically been a place where news organisations, companies, government organisations, etc posted information and announcements, including very important ones.
It’s also what the police used to first alert the public about an active shooter…
The dead mall here got torn down and they’re building a giant retirement home complex on the land. Which will basically kill any sort of night life and entertainment in the downtown because the cranky seniors will whine about the noise and groups of people…
