A food court near my house has slowly turned into an improvised coworking space. It's relatively quiet (as food courts go). For a while, the café even offered

A food court near my house has slowly turned into an improvised coworking space. It's relatively quiet (as food courts go). For a while, the café even offered a whole day's worth of coffee for a reasonable price. What I don't get is why the increasingly empty malls in my state don't incentivise this more. At the very least they'd earn something from parking and some food and drinks.