Dead malls
May. 21st, 2003 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeWhy are there so many dead malls in the Boston area? Maybe not so many, but there's the Assembly Square mall in Somerville, and the Mystic Mall in Chelsea. (I can think of 4 living malls north of Boston and at or inside 128, so this is a third of the local mallage.) Both of them would seem to have fairly good road access (to 93 and 1, respectively), traditional mall layout, and so forth. I guess I'm not really clear what makes a mall "work", but it seems like if a mall exists and has stores and people go there, then it would be sort of self-perpetuating...
(And what do mall-addicted folk in nearby Boston do for their mallage? The Galleria seems kind of generally inconvenient, and everything else is comparatively far out. I guess the scale here is just different from California; we used to drive 10 miles to the "good" mall all the time, so expecting people in Somerville to drive to Burlington isn't actually that unreasonable.)
(And what do mall-addicted folk in nearby Boston do for their mallage? The Galleria seems kind of generally inconvenient, and everything else is comparatively far out. I guess the scale here is just different from California; we used to drive 10 miles to the "good" mall all the time, so expecting people in Somerville to drive to Burlington isn't actually that unreasonable.)
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Date: 2003-05-21 08:38 am (UTC)