Re:The Life and Death of the American Mall
by gvurrdon on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:44AM
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I recall one of those; right in the centre, as you describe. It was open by the mid 1980s, IIRC.
It had a cafe and various pleasant seating areas within, such as this:
https://www.peterboroughimages.co.uk/currys-store-queensgate...
Last time I looked these had all been removed, and the main "flagship" store closed down; certainly no longer the exciting day out I remember from when it was new.
Perhaps this is due to the increasing number of retail parks which have appeared in the area this century.
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Re:The Life and Death of the American Mall
by jemmyw on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:31PM
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I moved away from the UK in 2007 and I understand there have been quite significant changes to the high street in general over there since then. I live in NZ now and the malls around here are integrated like I described. They're also quite small because population.
I will call bullshit on my own original post though. I used to live near Santa Rosa CA and that had a mall that spilt into the street stores that I had forgotten about, so it's not actually a difference between the US and the rest of the world. My general point though is I think those are friendlier malls than the out of town variety.