From: Doug Brewer
John Sessoms wrote:
> From: Doug Brewer
>> Jack Davis wrote:
>>> > Sad and the sense of silence is deafening. Beautifully exposed,
>>> Doug. What town?
>>> > > Jack
>>
>> thanks, Jack. It's Richmond, KY
>>
>
> I could have sworn I was looking at Cary Town Center mall in Cary, NC.
>
> Probably the same architect.
Could be. I think I've been to that mall in Cary. Seems like I saw all
of them in the southeast.
We've had two shopping malls demolished in the area in the last decade.
Both were immediately replaced with newer shopping centers.
The old South Square Mall in Durham was replaced by a strip center with
a WalMart at one end and a Target at the other.
In Raleigh, one of the first malls built in NC, North Hills Mall was
demolished all except for the JC Penney's store, and a new shopping
center was built on the old mall's footprint. It's one of those
pseudo-downtown designs, but they're carrying it off successfully so far.
The developer is building residential mid-rise condos and apartments
with shops on the ground floors in the area to try to make it all
slightly denser and more "walkable", but he's sooner or later going to
come up against the problem that he's got one of the city of Raleigh's
major automotive high traffic thoroughfares splitting the middle of his
project.
Still, the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle area appears
intent on catching and surpassing Atlanta as the most sprawling "city"
in the southeast. Without, of course, the necessary infrastructure to
handle it.
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