when did malls basically fade off into obscurity?

[joeychizzle]

Well I could get into how a great deal of the women and youth are dressed like street walkers friend, but that goes without saying. The mall is a meat market for vanity driven filth and people with no purpose

That's more like it

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Malls are an antiquated concept. The shift is moving toward these open air "mixed communities", which I think are garbage as fukk, but whatever. I go to the mall MAYBE once a year now, but I'll never forget those days of whipping nikkas ass in King of Fighters in the arcades, talking big shyt in the food court and cat calling hoes throughout the mall. And previous posters are right, social media wiped out teenage mall culture. These kids can pretend to be players/models/thugs/etc online.. no need to be seen in public.

 

[BrothaZay]

Do you know how long people weren't people sales tax on Amazon?

?

 

[Zero]

Online shopping is killing malls

but if I go in macarthur mall this weekend, it'll be as packed as ever

 

[Zero]

Online shopping is not the reason, wtf. Think about stores that are inside malls before you say online again...stores that people need/prefer to go in person like glasses, shoes, clothes, food, etc. Then stores like gamestop, hair salons, etc. Then you get the luxury of doing all that while at one place. So how is online shopping killing that and not individual retailers not part of malls?

These dudes love generalizations and/or don't leave the house breh

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Amazon, EBay, Etsy, Bigcartel and Vintage Stores is all I need.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Funny u make this thread. I heard theyre closin down Eastland Mall in Columbus.

They already closed the downtown mall a while ago and turned it into a park

Edit: I think Eastland Mall was sold. I dont think it's closing

 

[JamilALAmin]

All malls ain't closing tho. Usually the lower tier malls close and the nicer malls get updated. And anything new that gets built is some outdoor district type shyt like Atlantic Station or Avalon in the A.

Online shyt is taking a piece of the pie too. With sites like Asos and Topman its hard not to shop online. Especially when their selection online is so fukking big. It takes me hours to look thru shirts on Asos. And Topman has a whole bunch of shyt on their site that you won't see in the store. Maybe that's just in the A tho cuz the Topshop in Lenox is small as fukk compared to some of the other ones I've seen.

Also the way people dress has changed. There are so many different lanes now when it comes to fashion that a mall could never cover all those bases. nikkas is making they own lane these days when it comes to clothes and alot of that shyt you can't get in a mall.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Grown nikkas stayed picking up young ass thots on the low there and more likely still do

 

[Cabbage Patch]

That is true...

but also the idea of solely commercial large scale multi-store shopping INDOOR malls has been replaced with multi-function shopping, living, recreating, and work in OUTDOOR mixed-used centers on the same piece of property.

So many of these

DeadMalls.com: Stories

are being replaced or rejcted with these.....

Basically, the trend is to go back to the "traditional" town center/Main street type shopping experience, but add housing and offices above or within easy walking distance. Matterfact, I was out at City Center in Houston this past weekend, and it was literally packed. Doesn't mean that indoor malls are completely gone, cause right down the highway is Memorial City Mall and it's still busy, but the outdoor experience is what's hot in the streets .

The craziest example I've seen of mixed use combines green roof on top of the building is this one right here, which is going up outside of San Jose, California. Probably the wildest one I've seen about to go under construction .....this shiit is going to be a tourist attraction on it's own.

Vallco plans revealed: Rafael Viñoly design includes 30-acre sky-park over Cupertino mixed-use center; would be world's largest green roof - Silicon Valley Business Journal

Vallco plans revealed: 30-acre sky-park over Cupertino mixed-use center would be world's largest
Aug 26, 2015, 1:00pm PDT

On Wednesday, officials revealed a sweeping $3 billion design from international “starchitect” Rafael Viñoly, working with Olin Landscape Architects, that has, as its defining element, the world’s largest green roof — a 30-acre elevated park that seems to dance off the tops of buildings, connecting them to each other and the ground.

“After we bought Vallco, we said, let’s not to do a run-of-the-mill project,” said Sand Hill principal and founder Peter Pau in an interview earlier this week. “Why would we bother? We’re looking at a unique situation, and we have to do something unique.”

With an orchard, a vineyard, and 3.8 miles of trails meandering above Cupertino, the project — announced at a meeting Wednesday at the Rotary Club of Cupertino — is like nothing ever attempted. Its ambition continues below the landscape layer: A 15-block, mixed-use street grid filled with 625,000 square feet of retail, 2 million square feet of office and 800 residential units.

Called “the Hills at Vallco,” it’s the biggest bet yet for Pau’s Sand Hill, a prodigious development firm that is being backed in the deal by the U.S. subsidiary of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund. And it is not without risk.

The project is large for Cupertino — a town where much smaller proposals are often met with resistance, and sometimes referendums. The retail roughly equals San Jose’s Santana Row mixed-use juggernaut, while the office is twice the heft of the Adobe Systems headquarters in downtown San Jose.

Then there’s the elevated park, which would be a tremendous engineering feat. It’s at least twice as big as anything attempted before it, Sand Hill officials said. And while they say their team knows how to build it, they acknowledge the cost is huge.

That green roof looks like an episode of Sliders, the one with big tittied Chase Masterson playing home girl Wade's alt reality sister on that world where everyone was a debt slave to credit.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Grown nikkas stayed picking up young ass thots on the low there and more likely still do

The only chicks at malls now are underaged chicks and senior citizens on they mall walk.

Stop being pedos.

 

[daemonova]

 

[8====D]

the mall is status now. . .if it aint the food court, then i aint going. . .motherf'rs dont NEVER have a nıgga shoe size in-store!

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Asos online and topman low key killing the game.

I didnt know my Coli brehs fukked with Asos/Topman.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Lennox

never seen so many foreign chicks with bodies in my life

Those were probably dudes