06-14-2023, 12:50 PM
Valco was in decay and finally got a raze. The Capitola Mall has been a zombie for years, but is still going (Dawn of the Dead reference). When my daughter was going to Humboldt State, the big mall in Eureka (next town over) was in pretty sad shape, too.
The Marketplace program on NPR has an ongoing bit where they call some mall manager from middle America to check the pulse of malls. Malls have a dependency on anchor stores. When they go, mall management scrambles to put something else in at least for window dressing. IIRC, their particular mall was trying to bring in other types of business: call centers, health care.
Not sure what is next, but the mall ecosystem is pretty borked.
--tg
The Marketplace program on NPR has an ongoing bit where they call some mall manager from middle America to check the pulse of malls. Malls have a dependency on anchor stores. When they go, mall management scrambles to put something else in at least for window dressing. IIRC, their particular mall was trying to bring in other types of business: call centers, health care.
Not sure what is next, but the mall ecosystem is pretty borked.
--tg