The Retail Life Cycle
This story about a strip mall built as part of what was originally intended to be a human-scale redevelopment plan for the old Denver airport ends with this stinger:
What’s more, streets run through the project’s center. When it decays in seven to 15 years, the city plans to replace the big boxes with densely packed houses, [project manager] Aldrete said.Wow. Occasionally I run across something like this that reminds me how flippant we’ve become about our built environment (and its legacy) over the past 50 years. I can only hope that the local government is getting the tear-down money up front, as planners in Charlotte, NC have proposed.
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