Turn them into arenas where the public can hunt millionaires for sport.
If I sell bows and arrows for hunting millionaires and I made a million dollars in profit… We cool, right?..
The last capitalist we shoot will be the one who sold us the bows and arrows.
Of course it’s not really you making that million dollars, it’d be the workers who make and sell the bows+arrows you’re stealing that profit from.
Cool, unrelated: I’m looking for a market analyst that can determine the safest time to stop selling arrows without needing to worry about “returns”
I got that for ya!
Let X be T = 0:00, and Y = “unsafe”
Just sell before X = Y!
That’ll be one million dollars, please.
Least anarchic lemming
A while back ago, there was an abandoned mall, a company bought it and allowed anybody to rent a small space in the open mall as a small business shop. People would put up curtains as walls and rent was very cheap.
The place was full of small vendors, more classy than a flea market, especially with the AC, but many artists selling all forms, and many odd widgets being sold. There was even a place that did custom glass blowing, etc etc. it was a real pleasure to be in and a community thrived there.
Importantly it was open consistently each day, so you could just randomly pop in and see what’s up.
From what I understand, the place was even making a profit, but apparently not enough. It was eventually sold and now it warehouses antique cars.
I think all those artists and small vendors vanished or moved online.
I miss it.
It was good.
I’d like more of those back, and to experience what community could develop from that.
Fill it with scorpions. I will not be taking questions.
Good day.
Surface area, or actual volume?
The first rule of scorpion building is, you do not ask about scorpion building!
Paintball. So many times in the 90s I’ve fantasized about this while at the mall.
Libraries, museums, local mom and pop stores, basically a complete rejection of what these places stood for.
Turn it into housing
Free-roam VR arcades where you have a whole mall or office to run around in would be cool!
airsoft/laser tag
Turn malls into mixed housing/office/commercial space. You could live work and play in the same place, like a mini Mall of America.
The dead mall inside the city here became mostly parking for the stadium, with a couple of businesses and a city bus transfer center. The one to the east became an office park.
I would like to see the upper levels of office buildings converted to housing and the ground floor to retail, couple floors between left for offices.
Malls I would like them to become city parks with skate parks (they usually have more up and down than the rest of the city) and buildings with libraries and community space and events rental space.
I don’t want any of this as much as I want a healthy mass transit system, safe bike routes, and safe walking routes. But I do want the buildings converted and it is possible, I used to work for a construction company that did nothing but renovation and repurposing of commercial spaces.
I agree, use these abandoned buildings to bring back Third Spaces!
Become abandoned haunted spaces with nature overtaking.
Vertical farms managed by the local community.
hanging gardens of rotting C-suites, hedge fund managers, and politicians.
Tear them down and give it back to nature.
That would be nice. Unfortunately that ain’t gonna happen with so many people. Feels like there is twice the number of people there used to be in my area.
Housing/retail neighborhood with doors to the outside and resident community areas inside.
Turned into individual owned housing with specific bans on corporate ownership and HOAs.
