Our Love Affair With Shopping Malls Is on the Rocks
By DAVID SEGAL
Published: January 31, 2009
DEARLY beloved.
We are gathered here today, in the midst of economic calamity, to ask if we really should be gathered here today, in a funhouse of merchandise designed to send us deeper into debt.
Specifically, we are gathered in the Chapel of Love, sandwiched between a LensCrafters and a Bloomingdale’s and tucked into a relatively quiet corner of the vast prairie of retail and amusements that is the Mall of America."
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It is interesting to think about how these structures could be used if they no longer exist as retail space.
New homes for community colleges? Available space for entrepreneurs to test their products? Remodeled into affordable housing units?
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