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Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, OR was in the news recently. It was at one point the largest mall in the US. And, now is one of the few places supporting a dive
by xrd 5y ago
Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, OR was in the news recently.
It was at one point the largest mall in the US. And, now is one of the few places supporting a diverse community of young people from around the city. And, also, a place that has become a focus because of the car break-ins that are plaguing the city, depending on what news sources you read.
The owners were going to sell it and people were excited about the opportunity to reconsider an extremely large space in a major urban area. Then, the owners decided to turn it into apartments and condos.
This will save the ice skating rink, and that's good. But, in the COVID era when public spaces are so hard to find, I wonder how that will impact people who don't own their own large houses, and I'm somewhat sad malls are moving in this direction, even though I hate going to them myself.
- jdlshore 5y agoI was at Lloyd Center on a Friday night recently. At 7:00 the place was dead, other than the skating rink. The food court was shutting down. If that’s what it’s like during what should be prime time for a mall, no wonder it’s shutting down.
- nicky0 5y agoDo people go shopping on Friday night? Not sure that is prime time.
- autoexec 5y agoThere's a also a pandemic going on which (at least in areas with high community spread) you'd hope would have some people reconsidering going to a shopping mall if they can avoid it. I wouldn't expect most retail spaces to be getting as much traffic as they might otherwise.
- michaelt 5y agoShopping, not so much. But cities need bars, restaurants, nightclubs, theatres, cinemas and so on, and Friday night is prime time for them (when there's not a pandemic) If malls-with-added-housing are to become the walkable urban neighbourhoods of the future, you'd expect them to move in that direction.
- wittjeff 5y agoI keep hoping Lloyd Center will go the way of The Arcade in Providence https://www.arcadeprovidence.com/ https://www.arcadeprovidence.com/