Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments
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This is fantastic. The video is a little long, but worth the watch.
http://www.littlethings.com/providence-arcade-homes/
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I always look at those micro apartments and think, "NOPE!"
...but then I go home to my studio apartment like, "Oh..."
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I'm not into micro living, but I do think that more mall spaces like this can be reused
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I added the video.
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@JaredBusch said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
I'm not into micro living, but I do think that more mall spaces like this can be reused
Agreed. The whole "micro living" idea is for the birds, but I bet 3 or 4 of these units could be combined into a nice little spread.
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@RojoLoco said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
@JaredBusch said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
I'm not into micro living, but I do think that more mall spaces like this can be reused
Agreed. The whole "micro living" idea is for the birds, but I bet 3 or 4 of these units could be combined into a nice little spread.
Or, more modern empty malls could easily be converted to normal sized units.
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@JaredBusch said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
I'm not into micro living, but I do think that more mall spaces like this can be reused
Yep too often they tear them down to redevelop even with there basicly new. I know around here there's like three malls and stores keep swaping between them. One becomes the "popular new one" they all move, for 2-3 years. A new developer comes in to the failing mall tears it down re-brands and creates a new mall and eviroment, then it becomes the new thing. stores move for 2-3 years.. and the cycle never ends. Makes no sense to me.
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@JaredBusch said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
@RojoLoco said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
@JaredBusch said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
I'm not into micro living, but I do think that more mall spaces like this can be reused
Agreed. The whole "micro living" idea is for the birds, but I bet 3 or 4 of these units could be combined into a nice little spread.
Or, more modern empty malls could easily be converted to normal sized units.
I was picturing a 4 room spread, each unit renovated to a different purpose (bedroom, kitchen, man cave, etc), with doors between each. But I guess you would have to buy vs. rent to do that.
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Without anyone else, only the cat would be annoyed in a tiny space. I'm seriously considering something like that if/when I need to move.
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@Jason said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
@JaredBusch said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:
I'm not into micro living, but I do think that more mall spaces like this can be reused
Yep too often they tear them down to redevelop even with there basicly new. I know around here there's like three malls and stores keep swaping between them. One becomes the "popular new one" they all move, for 2-3 years. A new developer comes in to the failing mall tears it down re-brands and creates a new mall and eviroment, then it becomes the new thing. stores move for 2-3 years.. and the cycle never ends. Makes no sense to me.
that actually sounds good for the economy. I don't think that simply reusing a mall instead of tearing it down for something new that will be built would be better for the economy - but then again, I'm not an econ-major
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It would be good that new tenants wouldnt have to pay for new development/construction costs, the old shop owners have paid most of that already. So if good means you as renter/buyer pays less that is good for renter/buyer, but construction guy might disagree. If good means paying construction guy to tear down and rebuild everything, then that is good for him, but leads to higher costs for renter/buyer.
Obviously that is a bit simple; new place will need to be remodeled at the least, but there would be winners/losers with either choice -
Don't get me wrong, bulldozing and rebuilding for the sake of bulldozing and rebuilding is wasteful, even if it is good for the economy at large.
My question begins with - why did they all leave? Why is the new location so much better?
In the case of Omaha, when a shop leaves one mall for another mall, it's because the new mall is in a much more affluent neighborhood, i.e. the hope for more revenue. It's likely that the location will wither and die, and never be rebuilt.
We rarely see something where businesses move out, the building is razed, something new in its place with new tenants. Typically if this happens, it happens because the area has become more prosperous and a new building will attract more customers, so out with the old and in with the new to make even more money.
So as was previously mentioned, those dead malls (we have two of them). One turned into office space. The second one is mostly empty and has been for around 10 years now. This mostly empty mall could be turned into apartments.
