Why can’t they tear the malls down and replace it with affordable housing instead?
Why rebuild something when you can repurpose it ?
In many places around the world old structures like warehouses, train stations, churches, convents, fire houses and other things are seen as an architectural opportunity to repurpose as housing, usually due to cost, but that lead to very unique dwellings that end up influencing other houses that are built from the ground up. Architects pounce at opportunities like this. The results are often superior to what a standard house built from the ground up would be.
Cause rent-seeking
Good piece, and pretty cool.
Agreed. Hopefully this is done more in the future with other dying/dead malls. In my area they are converting old textile mills that have been long abandoned into apartments and the ones I’ve seen, look awesome.
We have something like that, Ponce City Market in Atlanta. I believe it was an old Ford plant. But, I think that they’re luxury apartments, which doesn’t really help fix the affordable housing issue.
