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In reply to the discussion: The Mall Is Dead, And It's Taking Sbarro With It [View all]Agschmid
(28,749 posts)15. Yes it's called a lifestyle center, but I doubt it has much to do with trans fats.
I think that is a reach.
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It already is... except they call them outdoor malls, not "lifestyle centers."
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#93
There's one in Estero, Fl. between Fort Myers and Naples that has condos available.
A HERETIC I AM
Mar 2014
#191
Interesting. Marketplaces have evolved over thousands of years and will continue >>>
KittyWampus
Mar 2014
#25
My local So Cal Outlets Centre (no weather problem, place is huge 160+ stores) is always packed...
Tikki
Mar 2014
#122
I think that's more of a developer "chichi" term. Here,it's an outdoor mall.
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#97
It is a marketing term...but it does indicate there may be more options than shopping.
Agschmid
Mar 2014
#106
That appears to be the standard. It is the same here and at the Mall at Partridge Creek.
ScreamingMeemie
Mar 2014
#114
The concept of The Mall is dying because Fat Americans don't want to walk...
Cooley Hurd
Mar 2014
#5
Yes it's called a lifestyle center, but I doubt it has much to do with trans fats.
Agschmid
Mar 2014
#15
I guess overpriced stores selling nothing anyone wanted had nothing to do with it.
hobbit709
Mar 2014
#9
The decline of the middle class causes the decline of malls and mid-priced restaurants nt
LiberalEsto
Mar 2014
#121
I guess overpriced stores selling nothing anyone wanted had nothing to do with it.
AlbertCat
Mar 2014
#75
I live in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and close by I have two shockingly good pizza places
cali
Mar 2014
#17
I kinda liked malls. but some of the reasons i used to go to kill an afternoon are gone
KG
Mar 2014
#18
add to that no movie theater. Much of the fun has left the mall. It's now a splayed out shrine to
Ed Suspicious
Mar 2014
#59
retail outlets on Long Island are busy. Charter buses come from all over to them. They are huge>>>
KittyWampus
Mar 2014
#20
Nope, malls are dying because I can get pretty much whatever I want on Amazon,
Nye Bevan
Mar 2014
#31
Yes, the internet killed malls. And the changing culture of the 90s when the California malls
anneboleyn
Mar 2014
#176
I almost never go to a Mall or hardly any store anymore. As long as people are allowed
Bandit
Mar 2014
#44
On the main topic, I think what is going on is TV, the internet and video games.
merrily
Mar 2014
#66
What happened to "The Mall" followed what happened to "big box stores" as the town square searched..
MrMickeysMom
Mar 2014
#69
I could give you a whole list of reasons of why the malls are dying but I'm on my
mackerel
Mar 2014
#82
Never went to the mall as a kid but we have plenty of pizza here in Brooklyn.
hrmjustin
Mar 2014
#89
Thank God! The mall was one of the worst things to happen to America.
Drunken Irishman
Mar 2014
#142
LOL there are numerous references to the place in cartoons from the 40's on.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2014
#162
I was at a mall recently and everywhere there was a seating area there was a sign
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Mar 2014
#168