Shopping mall repurposes trend

Rachel Chew / EdgeProp.my
6 November, 2020
Updated:about 5 years ago
Residential building - Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood Seattle, USA is transforming part of its space into a 300-unit apartment complex. Meanwhile, Landmark Mall in Washington has transformed a defunct Macy store into a shelter for the homeless. (Marcusaxavier77)

The once bustling shopping malls have become dead places, no thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.

While many shopping centres continue to crumble at the hand of the retail apocalypse brought on by the pandemic, there are mall operators from different parts of the world trying to find a silver lining by repurposing the vacant spaces to generate income.

This story first appeared in the EdgeProp.my e-Pub on Nov 6, 2020. You can access back issues here.

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