The Kansas City area's gone from... 8? 9? fairly large malls to one, that I'm aware of. We have gained an outdoor version that has the bonus creepiness of tryi

The Kansas City area's gone from... 8? 9? fairly large malls to one, that I'm aware of. We have gained an outdoor version that has the bonus creepiness of trying to look like a nice, organic downtown of a quaint small european city while being full of f*cking cars and feeling fake as hell. Several of those around now. All of them would be 100x better if they'd shut down the roads to car traffic and make everyone park on the edges and walk (including and especially the somewhat older local prototype for the model, "The Plaza"). They're like malls but you get rained on and it takes way longer to walk anywhere, and you might get run over. They're really popular for some reason. [EDIT] I can think of four really big versions of the above around here now, and a couple smaller ones, and I'm sure there are more. Similar model to a mall, usually developed and owned by one entity, which tightly controls who can and can't be there (local KC example: MeMa's getting kicked out of The Legends because they didn't have enough other locations). They're exactly like malls but worse. I do not understand.