#ghost malls

[achildmiseducated]

Boardman, OH - July 2019

[adtothebone]

The end of Sears nears.

[waituntilnextyear]

Shopping Mall

I’ve been mulling, leaving and returning to this post for some time now. And things change, or stay the same, it is hard to tell. Early on in all this I found it hard to settle to read anything until I began Matthew Newton’s Shopping Mall. The book is part of the Object Lessonsseries, where various authors explore “the hidden lives of ordinary things”. At the time I wanted to read of ordinary…

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[shoppingisafeeling]

Ghost Malls

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” —Wendell Berry 

When demolition crews arrived at Greengate Mall in May 2003, it marked the end of a decade-long financial collapse that had left the shopping mall in a state of obsolescence. Shuttered two years earlier, the vacant mall—a community fixture in and around the town of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, for nearly 40 years—was being razed to make way for a Walmart Supercenter. News of the demolition upset longtime customers and former employees, senior citizens who walked the concourses for morning exercise and former mall rats who came of age in Greengate’s neon hallways. Losing the mall also triggered an almost immediate sense of longing among those who adored it.

“It wasn’t just a place to shop,” said Gary Nelson. “It was a community center.” Nelson, who was born in the late 1980s, grew up going to Greengate. It was the mall his parents preferred. Before his family had a car, they would take a bus to the mall from where they lived in the nearby town of Jeannette. When asked to recall his most vivid memories of Greengate, Nelson cited dinners at Elby’s, playing video games at Tilt, and shopping at stores like G. C. Murphy and National Record Mart. His family’s trips to the mall, much like my own as a child, were experiences steeped in emotion. Read full essay over at The Outline.

[garyfromleeds]

Aggro in the Agora: I wrote a thing for CityMetric about the desolate inner city shopping centres of Athens - and the surprising Greek history of the mall...

[ctrychristian]

Ten Chilling Minutes of Video Exposing Martial Law Preparations Following US Economic Collapse

Ten Chilling Minutes of Video Exposing Martial Law Preparations Following US Economic Collapse

This is a compilation of news reports indicating that martial law preparations have been put into place in anticipation of the imposition of martial law in response to an economic collapse. We are going to see ghost malls, student protests, farmer rebellions, squatter camps, armed rebellion, tax protests, labor strikes, food shortages, disintegration of law enforcement and troops on the street.

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Ten Chilling Minutes of Video Exposing Martial Law Preparations Following US Economic Collapse

Ten Chilling Minutes of Video Exposing Martial Law Preparations Following US Economic Collapse

This is a compilation of news reports indicating that martial law preparations have been put into place in anticipation of the imposition of martial law in response to an economic collapse. We are going to see ghost malls, student protests, farmer rebellions, squatter camps, armed rebellion, tax protests, labor strikes, food shortages, disintegration of law enforcement and troops on the street.

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[lambgirl]

New South China Mall (Chinese: 新华南MALL; pinyin: Xinhuánán MALL) in Dongguan, China is the largest mall in the world based on gross leasable area, and ranked second in total area to the Dubai Mall. However, it is largely vacant. Unlike other "dead malls", which have been characterized by the departure of tenants, the New South China Mall has been 99% vacant since its 2005 opening as very few merchants have ever signed up.

Number of stores: 47 

Total spaces: 2350

Unoccupied: 2303