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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Dec 12, 2016 21:15:51 GMT -5
Video game arcades. They've sorta lived on, as part of bigger & more diverse entertainment locales like Dave & Busters, but all the little ones in malls I frequented & knew of as a kid died in the '90s with the advent of Nintendo/Sega Genesis, and were dead by Playstation/Xbox. I was at my local mall this weekend, walking by the usual empty store fronts, old arcade facade that's still up 15-20 yrs after it closed, and the near-empty-since-2001 food court, and actually saw a newer arcade. Much smaller, in an old Hot Topic, but it exists. No one in it. During a December/Christmastime weekend. Malls in general when you think about it. Back in the 90s it was the place to hang out, there was no empty store fronts and more local malls period, at less in St. Louis. Now days you see the empty store fronts and a lot of malls struggle and end up closing down. The ones that are successful is either in a prime location and not close to an Outlet Mall or converted into and more "entertainment" place then just a shopping center.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2016 10:06:11 GMT -5
Video game arcades. They've sorta lived on, as part of bigger & more diverse entertainment locales like Dave & Busters, but all the little ones in malls I frequented & knew of as a kid died in the '90s with the advent of Nintendo/Sega Genesis, and were dead by Playstation/Xbox. I was at my local mall this weekend, walking by the usual empty store fronts, old arcade facade that's still up 15-20 yrs after it closed, and the near-empty-since-2001 food court, and actually saw a newer arcade. Much smaller, in an old Hot Topic, but it exists. No one in it. During a December/Christmastime weekend. Malls in general when you think about it. Back in the 90s it was the place to hang out, there was no empty store fronts and more local malls period, at less in St. Louis. Now days you see the empty store fronts and a lot of malls struggle and end up closing down. The ones that are successful is either in a prime location and not close to an Outlet Mall or converted into and more "entertainment" place then just a shopping center. I was gonna say that, but it's less depressing to talk about something that already died years ago. Malls with one floor (which were all the thing in the '70s and '80s) are dying. But even the multi-floor malls are suffering - lots of empty storefronts (but a lot of other stuff still around to mask it), shrinking food courts, and big name department stores which are slowly being picked off one by one.... Meanwhile, shopping plazas - which at least in my area took a big hit as the big malls were siphoning people away - are making a healthy comeback. Big box stores that are ever popular attracting smaller businesses (which often are moving out of the malls) in revamped plazas of old, and new plazas being built all around mall areas to increase traffic and decrease mall attendance.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Dec 13, 2016 10:23:39 GMT -5
Malls in general when you think about it. Back in the 90s it was the place to hang out, there was no empty store fronts and more local malls period, at less in St. Louis. Now days you see the empty store fronts and a lot of malls struggle and end up closing down. The ones that are successful is either in a prime location and not close to an Outlet Mall or converted into and more "entertainment" place then just a shopping center. I was gonna say that, but it's less depressing to talk about something that already died years ago. Malls with one floor (which were all the thing in the '70s and '80s) are dying. But even the multi-floor malls are suffering - lots of empty storefronts (but a lot of other stuff still around to mask it), shrinking food courts, and big name department stores which are slowly being picked off one by one.... Meanwhile, shopping plazas - which at least in my area took a big hit as the big malls were siphoning people away - are making a healthy comeback. Big box stores that are ever popular attracting smaller businesses (which often are moving out of the malls) in revamped plazas of old, and new plazas being built all around mall areas to increase traffic and decrease mall attendance. Yeah around here in St. Louis the Outlet malls has boomed. We had two big ones open 2015 and another one just started to be built now that should be late 2017 or 2018 to be done which is drawing concerns about killing the mall across the Highway that kind of the fence of being successful or next on the block. Which would be sad for me as that was the Mall I grew up by and remember when it opened and watch it grow and remember when it was always packed. It not as busy but currently pretty full store wise, but the volume I saw the times I'm there makes me wonder.
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