re: #39 Anymouse

Interestingly, here in Scottsbluff we have a mall that for years fell on hard times, with more and more vacant shops.

The city went into negotiations with the mall owners, with the intent of buying the mall and demolishing it.

Instead, the mall owner found an out-of-state investor who was convinced he could revive the mall’s fortunes. That investor sunk several millions of dollars into renovations.

This year, every shop in the mall is occupied. In this era of dying malls, I don’t know how the investor did it, but the mall is booming today.

That’s an impressive turnaround. Malls aren’t dying here; far from it, they’re thriving, but I’ve read that back in the US, malls aren’t doing so well anymore.