You didn’t, did you? My good friend Joe just sent this along from the New York Times: 101 Uses for a Deserted Mall.
I didn’t use the word “retrofitting” in my discussion, but that’s what we’re really talking about, here, isn’t it? Retrofitting in the present and redesigning the future?
See also: DeadMalls.Com
Here’s the beginning of a press release from 1984 I found via DeadMalls:
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Hess’s Department Stores, Inc., has agreed to purchase the Rices Nachmans Department Stores, an eight-unit chain in the Virginia Tidewater area owned by the Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.
Irwin Greenberg, president of Hess’s, said the price would be determined Feb. 4, following completion of the transaction. He said he expected the price to be in the $10 million range.
Earlier this year, Greenberg announced that Virginia would be a major growth area for Hess’s, either through acquisition or new store openings. Negotiations with Phillips-Van Heusen started last March, he said.
Rices Nachman units, averaging 60,000 square feet each, …
Chris Cocca 