re: #87 freetoken

If Americans were willing to live more closely to each other, if that mall galleria was surrounded by apartments, then it might have done better.

But because of suburbia-madness, Americans live to sparsely.

Could be why shopping malls do better here - for instance, we have a new-ish one, about three years old, here in town called Forum Nova Karolina. It’s nice enough…and right across the way are some very nice apartment units, also built at the same time. And Nova Karolina is very close to the urban core of Ostrava. And it’s also served by easy access to the local streetcar lines.

That’s why you really only see shopping malls in high-density urban areas here. Not the suburbs.