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America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing? (www.vox.com)

submitted 7 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org

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[–] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 9 points 7 months ago

This. There were 2 malls near me where they spent nearly 10 years total trying different designs on paper trying to find a way for it to be cheaper to retrofit into housing, or anything useful really, and eventually they just tore both down and built new smaller structures on the footprint.