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> "who would want to buy an appartment in a mall" I lived in an apartment on top of a mall in Singapore. It’s awesome.
by philliphaydon 5y ago
> "who would want to buy an appartment in a mall"
I lived in an apartment on top of a mall in Singapore.
It’s awesome.
- chairmanwow1 5y agoI know what you mean, but I’m pretty confident OP is talking about the wild strip mall variant that plagues the American countryside.
- iszomer 5y agoWhat if it was purposefully built that way like Emeryville's Bay Street location?
- bluGill 5y agoIs it that or the indoor mall with massive parking around it? I know of one of that type near me that is doing the conversion (it isn't mentioned in the article, but probably one of the almost 200 in the US doing the same)
- kmeisthax 5y agoYeah, you absolutely can mix commercial and residential - if you're smart about how you design your building, and what commercial tenets you allow in. And, of course, you have a pedestrian-friendly[0] city so that not everything is a massive fight in traffic. Most Americans here - especially those who live on the west coast - are going to see "apartment" and "mall" and assume that means having to negotiate thousands of incoming and outgoing cars every time you want to leave the building. [0] In practice, "pedestrian-friendly" also means "car-hostile".