Across the US, there are tens of thousands of strip malls sitting largely empty on pricey land If just 10% of those shopping centers - the ones most suitable for conversion - were repurposed into housing, we could create 700,000 new homes vox.com/the-highlight/240755…

America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing?

Converting malls could create hundreds of thousands of badly needed homes.

vox.com

Apr 10, 2024 · 3:49 PM UTC

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Replying to @rmc031 @voxdotcom
These are probably strip malls with largely "shit stores" in them
Replying to @rmc031 @mattyglesias
We could just build more homes. We don't need to politicize zoning laws.
Replying to @rmc031 @mattyglesias
Rebuild with apartments above. As many floors as the market will support.
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Replying to @rmc031 @mattyglesias
Strip malls also have tons of already so you can build up easily.
Replying to @rmc031
See this a lot in Michigan...
Replying to @rmc031
unless our building and land use codes change, tho - they won't be climate adaptive, family-friendly, affordable, or offer a high quality of life. here's how germany's repurposing its malls: car-free, mixed use, affordable, open space, blue-green infra
Mike Eliason @holz_bau
Jan 12
Replying to @holz_bau
the hard edge along the street blocks out much of the noise (4-lane arterial, industry, rail yard) the district opens up to the pedestrianized spine and the blau river. these buildings are fairly thin - leaving far more open space than you'd see in US mall redevelopment.
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Replying to @rmc031
More housing is good but housing next to high-speed highways is not.
Bike Delaware 🚲 @Bike_DE
30 Nov 2023
21 year old pedestrian killed crossing Dupont Highway near a manufactured housing community south of Townsend.
Replying to @rmc031
Strip mall that are largely empty are located in places where there is no shortage of housing. That's why they are empty.
Replying to @rmc031
This is kind of what's happening in Madison. Car lots. Old factories.
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Replying to @rmc031
But they all have retail/office space on the first floor and just driving around it seems like there is a glut.
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