Typical strip mall these days: Dollar or Discount Store Bad restaurant(s) Cell phone store Dentist or Urgent Care 3 or 4 overpriced clothing stores Smoke shop Nail Salon Maybe a hair salon or spa
Facts lol I've lived in Mesa, Arizona my whole life which is considered the largest suburb in America but also the most boring and car-centric hellhole in America.
@@bubastis6306all of them? Highly doubt that, but either way the other commenter has a point, even if some or most of these areas or buildings were your definition of ugly, it's not that important to begin with.
@@thechaospredator1947 I dont think he has a point. If he truly had one he would not have wasted his time commenting. And cities with old or new beautiful architecture would not get so many tourists. While most "practical" designed areas get left behind as soon as ppl can afford to. Of course it isn't as important as food, shelter and health. But ppl tend to feel better in a surrounding that is pleasing for them.
It's almost like our entire lives have been heavily influenced by corporations and their shortsighted financial decisions. Can't even find the pair of shoes you want in real life anymore.
This is because most of society will take extraordinary measures to never interact with the bottom decile of society. That includes erecting all kinds of new buildings not easily reached through public transportation and walking so that only car owners can access.
This country often feels like a Shein order gone wrong. If I were an architect, I’d be ashamed to be part of building these strip malls. We have so much potential for creating beautiful aesthetics along our highways and in our towns, yet we settle for cheap materials and uninspired designs. It’s just too much. Our surroundings play a crucial role in shaping our mental health and overall well-being, and strip malls do nothing to uplift us. Instead, they contribute to a bland and stressful environment. It’s time we start a conversation about this because it’s simply unacceptable. We deserve spaces that inspire and comfort us, not ones that drain our energy. Let’s advocate for more thoughtful, community-focused architecture that reflects the beauty we’re capable of creating.
I totally agree with you - I left my comment above before reading yours, which you so eloquently described. (I just can't stand what this country has become.). It's really, really horrible.
The main intention to build suburbia and such environment as strip malls is money turnover for financial institutions. They are not interested in european style compact and economical cities. income per head is much smaller
Money is the driving force for all of this. Profit margins and ease of building plans. No one is asking these companies to build fancy buildings. Unfortunately
When you travel in Southeast Asia you notice that traditional indoor malls are still a big thing there. One big reason is they're air conditioned in a very hot climate. Also Asians still relish the 3rd place, have a stronger sense of community, and have a much better infrastructure that's not so car centric.
sometimes it's more than just "decent" - my uncle brought me to a mall in Bangkok because he knew one vendor had one of the best "kow soi" outside of Chiangmai & wow was he right!
It's because there's a different business model over there. It's not uncommon to have an entire street of people selling basically the same things, there may also be "department stores" where the departments are owned by different people, which is more or less just a regular mall in a more compact form factor. It's a different buying culture and I wouldn't necessarily ascribe it to being more community oriented as malls were massively big in the US and really only started to decline due to the availability and practicality of online shopping. All of those countries will eventually have the opportunity to rely on online shopping like the US does, and then we'll see. But, when parts of Asia just recently got credit cards, it doesn't make for a particularly accurate comparison, as before CCs and debit cards became common in the US, people mostly had to shop in person, or send a check with an order form to receive the items later on via mail.
When someone talks about "Asians" positively they're talking about East Asians like Japanese and Koreans, not Southeast Asians that are a stone's throw from the third world.
My initial thought as well, lol. I love how at the end of the video, the "successful" format of the strip mall is basically....a small town format. It's almost like we never should have abandoned towns and cities in the first place!
The only way car centric design will go away is when freedom of association is restored. Otherwise, anything great that gets built gets destroyed by easy access from the bottom decile of society.
They all have the same crap in them. Every time I see one being built, I say, "lemme guess, another nail salon, dry cleaner, dentist office, and liquor store will be added here." Sure enough, that's what goes in.
What else are you expecting? A shopping center without some of the common businesses doesn't make for a very good shopping center. If you want an arcade to be in a shopping center, go ahead and open one and see how long you stay in business.
@addanametocontinue That's kind of an ignorant response. The same stores, or types of stores, definitely doesn't need to be in every strip mall blocks away from each other, and yet they are. It's pointless.
The ones I've lived near have added stores like Ross, TJ Maxx, Big5 Sporting Goods, Planet Fitness, maybe a Neighborhood Walmart. Some have a Trader Joe's or Aldi. A Starbucks or Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Some also have restaurants including upscale Italian restaurants or decent (and expensive) Japanese or Korean BBQ. There's still the nail salon, laundromat, burger place, and hair salon type centers, but there's more options now where these exist.
“A small town, where you may even have stores at the ground level, and an apartment on a second or third level. More green space, more walkways, pedestrian only areas, places for outdoor dining”. Oh my God, Thomas LaSalvia just discovered Europe!!
And the years before the US (and now almost everyone else) was sold cars as the only option for transportation and parking, etc was regulated into local building codes and single use zoning
What really sucks about this "revelation" is that most of the U.S. actually had such spaces a hundred years and even a few decades ago. Then the auto industry lobbied hard to get rid of public transportation networks that had existed and give everybody an automobile and then slowly bulldoze our beautiful city centers and community spaces (sometimes along racial lines) in order to plop down a highway and remove any sense of community and identity and personality from our cities.
That excessively large parking lot is one reason housing is so expensive. They take up so much space. When a store goes out of business you get a dead spot in the neighborhood.
@@nihilisticpancake308 When robotaxis become cheaper than taking a city bus, it will behove companies such as Waymo to _keep them moving_ . A parked driverless car simply doesn't make any money. Parking lots only exist because cars are currently parked about 95% of the time. But as soon they function as a de facto conveyor belt, there'll be no need to park them (except overnight at a Waymo-owned garage for charging).
@@nihilisticpancake308 Not at all. First of all, there are _only so many_ human taxi drivers. In a vast American metroplex such as Phoenix, Dallas, or Atlanta, it's not unusual to wait more than half an hour for a vehicle to arrive for _each individual leg_ of a trip. Extrapolate that to a mother who must go grocery shopping, transport her children to activities, and get home in time to cook and clean. Second of all, even if we could increase the number of human-driven taxis tenfold or more (fat chance!), said drivers could still reasonably only work 11-14 hours a day, having to eat, sleep, shower, etc. As it stands, Uber drivers must pay for their own gas, car repairs, insurance, and _wear and tear, as well as depreciation_ before making any money to pay for their own food, clothing, and shelter. This _already_ leads to long, drudgerous working days that increase the likelihood of accidents and falling asleep at the wheel. And third of all, riding a taxi everyday is _far more expensive_ than taking a city bus. Factor in the inconveniences mentioned above, and the typical American will rather take his chances driving a cheap, old car-and often postponing necessary repairs and maintenance. With robotaxis, everything will become tremendously cheaper, faster, cleaner, and safer.
@@jonkiyosaki6600 Kind of. In a lot of ways, I think suburban Europe has a lot of stuff that looks like the U.S. from 30 years ago, but the U.S. has been busy since then building even bigger and dumber stuff. I've seen a lot of things that I refuse to believe could exist anywhere in Europe. CityNerd recently did a video about urban highway interchanges, something which he concluded were so dysfunctional and unique to the U.S. that not even Canada, the most culturally similar country to the U.S., really had any.
It's amazing that building apartments on top of strip malls is some radical idea. Many countries in the world have towns like that where they have shops at the bottom floor of the apartment building or a building nearby. When I lived in Korea, my apartment building was less than 1 minute walking distance from a small grocery store, pharmacy, convenience store, coffee shop, and several restaurants.
The Mega-mart concept and grocery store still dominates suburbia. HUGE FOOD MARTS. They exhaust me…by the time I do my own check out, I realize I hate shopping now. I hate shopping online now too. Whatever arrives I am usually disappointed with, knowing I would not have selected the item if I had seen it first in a store. Amazon killed my love for shopping. Its all garbage now.
Which is why I don’t understand the move to these outdoor shopping centers (glorified strip malls). Where I live, it’s nice outside two weeks in the spring, and two weeks in the fall. So it’s either freezing, or triple digit heat. I just went to one of these outdoor shopping centers today, and it was supposedly in the 80s, but it felt like 100! And it’s absolutely stupid because the stores have to compensate, so i have to bring a jacket when it’s 110 out, put it on in the stores, then take it back off once outside. In the winter, I have to wear a coat, gloves, maybe a scarf, and take them all off in the stores, since they’re heated, and then put everything back on whenI leave. Every single store, I have to do this. I could drive farther to a physical mall, and not have to worry about it, only most are all dead, with anchors relocating close to me as individual stores. Im not going to make a special trip just to go to a Macys or a Pennys. I may visit, if I’m at a mall, and it just happens to be there however.
I definitely understand why strip malls works in warm weather areas, but in cold weather or rainy locations why are the malls dying out? Why would anyone want to walk outside from store to store in bad weather?
Why go out when you can stay at home and with a click of a button have things sent directly to your house. No need to go out of your house these days other than to try on clothes. Internet has killed retail. Netflix would be still mailing red envelopes.
I think the biggest reason would be the convenience of strip malls. Just a quick in and out. Going into a regional mall just seems like more of a hassle, unless you have a lot of time on your hands and intend to hang out for a while. Malls are more appealing for the "experience" they offer, but in today's busy world, that's becoming more and more of a luxury for working young people. Not to mention with the older people who may be the most drawn to a traditional mall, they're getting older and getting out less and less, and the oldest are dying off. Put all of this together and you have a recipe of decline for malls.
@@mlong9475 Not everywhere. Not in all cultures. Where people value looking good brick and mortar retail is still doing fine. Montreal and many European countries are examples.
In the south they are building strip malls in the bigger suburbs but are rebranding them calling them town centers in each area of the city. They include housing, restaurants, cafes, hotels, grocery stores, clothing/houseware shopping and entertainment/nightclubs, gathering spaces / parks & lawns and outdoor amphitheater. Every Friday night there’s a different theme, or music or entertainment. Parking is an under ground parking garage or a tall parking garage.
You’re right. Most of the Town Centers I’ve seen in GA, SC, NC and AL are convenient located next to new housing developments or large apartment communities. They often have a nice community feel as well as aesthetically pleasing.
@@Jasmine215100 I stayed at one when I was on a business trip. A Doordasher or someone tried to run me down in the crosswalk while I was walking to dinner. The ring road around the center had 3 lanes each way in spite of there being almost no traffic, so it wasn't like he didn't have room to just drive around me if he didn't want to wait 2 seconds. So... not very safe.
Good to know--because we urgently need higher density communities with public services/jobs/recreational benefits for everyone. Less car centric as well 🙌
I disagree. There are some really well landscaped outdoor malls that are just architecturally well designed strip malls. They are actually pleasing to visit versus the cement strip of store fronts. Materials used makes a di as well.
Microwave society. Strip malls are convenient. You can visually see what’s there without even exiting your car. If you see what you like, park and walk in. Way easier than parking and searching a 50k sq ft building for one or two stores that you may like
Man I can’t wait until strip malls inevitably fail due to destination shopping, traffic, parking, etc and we see another CNBC video about why brands are moving back into Main Streets.
@@Ed44503this. At one time a community had everything that they needed in one place. You could literally walk out of your house, go to the small drug store which serves also as a grocery store, get clothes next door, and go to the local theater next to that for a flick, and then get some meals at diner next to the theater after the show. Hardly any driving was needed unless it was to visit grandparents in the nearby city or the next state over. This model of suburban life is designed specifically to make the pockets deeper for big corporations. They count on you driving farther out so you pay for gas and therefore make vehicles gas inefficient so they can make more under "luxury models", they count on you eating out because if you had grocers right next to you and you also had your own garden they couldn't poison the food better and cause corporate created inflation like we've seen, there's a whole thing to this. If you don't move and create the life that you want these companies will mainly make you dumber, poorer, and sicker.
I think it'll help keep Macy's around in some areas that have malls that are no longer up to par to justify having a Macy's. Likewise, this will help keep Macy's relevant across the board.
Macy’s is not luxury anymore. Macys is not relevant anymore because of clothing brands it sells or the clothing styles are very outdated. They sold looks that very mass produced overpriced and outdated.
@@gibiad Some Macy’s stores are high-end and those are the stores they plan to focus on the most going forward after this next batch of 150 stores close. By 2027, there will be very few (if any) Macy’s left in regular middle-class malls.
What we had in the 50's was way better than anything we have today. We had vibrant downtowns with bus service that came by our home every half hour - only dad needed a car for work. Then came the mall. Downtown became vacant and bus service disappeared. Now the mall is acres of crumbling asphalt with a huge empty crumbling mall. When I was a child that mall land was a paradise where I picked blackberries with my grandmother. What a disaster the malls across this country created. Everywhere it is just UGLY!!!
I think if people keep voicing to the real estate market how ugly and disgustingly cheap their building materials are it may change. It might take a long time, but we should not be accepting strip malls as normal U.S aesthetics in the first place!
@@Jeskrist5 Businesses are always going to try to minimize costs, you can't stop human nature. The issue is with euclidian zoning and parking minimums that when combined makes strip malls the most viable form of commercial development. Get rid of Euclidian zoning and parking minimums and strip malls will go away.
You're forgetting about all the awesome immigration and social changes that started right after the 50s that have since made riding public transportation unbearable
Based on the B roll in this report, it seems that they are combining strip malls and shopping centers into one category. I see them as distinct. Strip Malls tend to be parallel to a strode with a crowded parking lot, shopping centers may have multiple buildings in a variety of patterns and may include nice landscaping. By far, the strip mall is the more unpleasant place to be, especially the parking area. They feel like liminal spaces with little charm. Nicer shopping centers on the other hand may have park-like areas, plazas, and sitting areas. I much prefer a shopping district in a walkable established neighborhood to either of those suburban alternatives.
This!!! Well said I understand 100% what you said. Look up at “the Pearl” in San Antonio or “MKT Makrket” or “the post” in Houston is that what you mean?
@@MalevolentBiteany retail space isnt cheap and the whole system is jackbooted so they want references credit check they want to know every dime you make. You say "can i just pay 6 months upfront" they say "yes but fill application" like youre applying for a job the privilege of getting to pay them your fortune on a monthly basis. So yeah i have my complaints haha. like come on people god is in control wake up i have a whole town in cali with my name plastered all over it isnt that refrence enough just take my cash why am i filling out any paperwork. I dont walk aroumd demanding peoole fill out paperwork if i had a csmpsite id be like yo bro 10 dollars you can stay from one midnight to the next and for 20 dollars you can stay from one midnight over a midnight and you have to be gone by the next midnight after the 2nd. If peoole work for 7.5 an hour 15 an hour should not an hours work provide for a days needs?
I dont have an issue per say with strip malls other than they are ugly, cheap to a fault, and built back from the street behind ugly parking lots. Build them at the sidewalk, put the parking behind it, put on a 2nd story for some residencies (if possible), and it's all good.
The strip mall I used to use had great choices ( hardware store,GNC, half price books, etc.) It saved a lot of running around. I would love to see that come back.
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I appreciate this. After curiously searching her name online and reviewing her credentials, I'm quite impressed. I've contacted her as I could use all the help I can get
The thing is people often doubt the prospects of financial advisors like Julianne Iwersen Niemann in business/markets today. Well it gives me more time to get ahead while they stew in their own pity and doubts as they childishly complain about those spreading the word
The strip centers never designed to be pedestrian friendly, and just trying to walk from place to place you’re taking your life in your own hands. Not to mention all of the impermeable surface, adding to Overland drainage and flooding problems, but at least somebody can get a three dollar T-shirt and a $20 taco.
They should tour Dubai then come back and replan so much change is needed. Totally outdated. It’s embarrassing to take visitors around, you feel sad state everywhere
Especially in places where it’s real hot or real cold , the indoor mall you have everything under one roof instead of having to go in and out of places .
Right but, most don't, and this is why most are failing. Unless you have a very high traffic area, the Mall as we know it will be gone for at least 25-40 years....
Here in Philippines, indoor large malls are expanding.. our climate is hot humid, and we need in house community and fully air conditioned.. and also our cities are crowded which to maximize space due to high rental rates.
The strip mall nearest to me, with a Wawa convenience store, used to be thriving then within a few months every store closed except for the Wawa. It's been like that for years now. I asked a Wawa employee about it and they said everyone moved out because the rent is too high. Meanwhile the strip across the street is still thriving.
My mom is older now and they took away most of the seating in our local traditional mall. It’s way too tiring for her to walk from one side of the mall to the stores she wants. A strip mall or outlet is easier for her because we can park close by and walk directly to the store she wants. She can take a break on a bench or back in the car when she needs it. A traditional mall really needs to think about accessibility. There are stores inside you need to walk pretty far to reach because they don’t have a direct outside door.
The thing I love most about living in japan is that malls are still a thing. I love walking around the mall. Having a mall to just be in. Strip malls are a sad solution to a need… and I do not miss them at all
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This is very odd to hear because a lot of strip malls around here (NJ and NY) are failing. Yes I have seen some of the trends mentioned in this video with big stores moving into them, but overall I dont see many successful strip malls like that. The only ones I see doing well are those with unique restaurants and in more of a square configuration.
Strip malls are essentially like "10-20 year pop up shops"... you can easy flip them into something else. I don't blame corporations and big business from investing in them. US consumers have shown that they don't value "destination shopping malls", "downtown shopping districts" and "shopping villages" as much as they did in other generations. People will take their romantic date to the strip mall (just like it's no longer taboo to look for love on a dating app like Tinder), they'll take their families/kids to a meal at a strip mall , etc etc. It is what it is. It make sense that this type of shopping is thriving in a suburban/car dependent environment. Once the urban planning/architecture and transportation changes, the shopping trends will change. Humans will do what's convenient to whatever environment they're in.
The most convenient way to shop is online, except grocery. For me, I can only buy travel essentials items online. Free shipping after a certain amount, work best, I don't have to spend on gas and wait to pay
@@___beyondhorizon4664 What if you order the wrong size, or you don't like the way it looks after you bought it? Then you have to return it to Amazon or wherever! No surprises when you try it on in person at the brick-and=mortar store!
My boot shop-just outside downtown Date night restaurant-smack dab downtown After dinner drinks?-two blocks from the restaurant Bar-east end of town So few people have taken an interest in the assets of the city in which they live, that nobody else (none of whom have an interest in the assets of the city in which they live) bothers to support aforementioned assets. Bring back our community to our community, and it will build community. We have a Boba problem (whatever the heck that is). Two blocks of businesses, only one good restaurant, and fourteen boba (whatever the heck that is) stores. Drive through the sprawl, you don’t know where you are since it’s absolutely identical. Why would i eat in Noblesville, Indiana, Mesa, Arizona, or half of Colorado, when i could get the exact same thing in Cartersville, Georgia (which used to be a very lovely town).
Regular mall rent becomes more expensive. A sign that middle income population in US keeps shrinking to its lower percentage. Therefore the retailers have to adjust.
It’s hilarious how we’re looping back around to 19th century rural/suburban landscapes. In the 1800s and early 1900s there were tons of villages near one another because it made more sense to walk 5 minutes to the local general store than take the horse or streetcar into the next town. The car made these villages obsolete but with green spaces, walkways, and apartment complexes being added to strip mall properties we’ve essentially rediscovered the concept of a village. Feels like a shame that it took us this long to figure it out.
I'm from Mexico city and nowadays the US just looks the same no matter where you are, stripmall after stripmall with the same things you don't want to buy sprinkled with a couple of businesses you need to go. Sadly it only adds to the notion that the US has no culture and more than looks wise, It's the isolation mentality in which this people live because they don't have a mixed and diverse 3rd place anymore which is definitely helping extreme social divisions. No wonder that in a society where people work so much and drive and buy in their cars so much everyone thinks they live in their own bubble. It may be convenient and profitable but long term it's going to be awful for this society. And I didn't even touched the pollution aspect of relying on personal transportation, the US is built to make people spend money as soon you walk out the door, that's why everyone is in debt or struggling or getting more in debt in the comfort of their rented home.
Survery was off... nobody is willing to pay more just because it is a stripmall. NOW... look at the people you sent those surveys too... what is their age and income level? Was it varied, or was it pretty one-sided? My guess is it is was more middle class/upper middle class families taking those surveys.
Strip malls these days: Dollar or Discount Store Bad restaurant(s) Cell phone store Dentist or Medical Care 3 or 4 overpriced clothing stores Smoke/vape/weed shop Illegal casino/slots locations Nail Salon hair/massage salon or spa Liquor store Pet store Donut shop Asian restaurant Hispanic grocery store Hipster grocery store (Sometimes) Perfume/cologne store (usually knock offs) Laundry/Dry cleaners Shipping outlet Title loan place SOMETIMES a GameStop Sometimes drug addicts, beggars and homeless people bothering you And absolutely an eyesore and boring. It's RARE that something cool is in one. Bring back actual malls.
@@ChristopherSobieniakYes, those are like plazas not a mall. I was wondering what a strip mall was until I saw it here. Those are just stores in a plaza not a mall.
The strip malls in the town over I shop in have nearly every place I would go to except a movie theater. There’s target, Trader Joe’s, Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Vons, Michael’s, Lowe’s, sprouts, and a host of small businesses and restaurants within a 2 mile radius.
At any given time a third of strip malls go empty. The store turnover is for me somewhat amusing, but sad. There seven strip malls plus a Meijers, Home Depot and Loews, within a mile of my house. There are places in these strip malls that were once inhabited by Borders, Big Lots, Bed Bath and Beyond, Michael’s, places that I could walk to and shop at. What has replaced them are a lot of fly by night furniture, mattress, appliance, fitness centers etc…they never last long, neither do the random eateries. My daily walks have come down to finding out which store is closing this week.
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Real Talk... I'm surprised Macy's is late to the party..Also, it shows that we have more land than what we know what to do with. Even though strip malls can be convenient, they can also be very congested.
Online is the only way I shop having lived in a rapidly growing small town the past 18 years. When they do actually build a store, I still order online.
Abamdoned malls and strip malls and ALLLLLLL of that parking lot space, could all be converted into homes or apartments to help alleviate our housing shortage.
We had an old mall in my town that they slapped two apartment buidings where the old sears was. 800 apartment units. Revitalized the whole old mall that was basically 70% empty. Now the mall, which is about half the size now that it used to be due to the apartments, is full and the area has turned into a small village.
My problem with the traditional indoor mall was that I can only carry so much merchandise at a time. I never went unless it was to a specific specialized store ( like a music store or electronics store ). It was easier to go to an outdoor 8:51 shopping center. I could go to a store like , Old Navy, put the merchandise into the car, then walk over to the next store . It was great if a grocery store was in the center. I would go with the intention of grocery shopping and other necessary shopping ( pet store, dry cleaners) but then go impulse shop at a clothing or craft store .
This. This right here. If traditional malls had shopping carts it would be a game changer. I remember back when I was younger and malls were still packed every weekend. Having to carry all those bags from multiple stores through the entire mall sucked. Especially in the winter when you were also carrying your coat too. And because malls were packed back then you’d have trouble finding parking and have to circle the place looking for a spot.
@@theotheleo6830 not really. It’s just that it’s not ridden by the middle class, so no political pressure to improve it. I rode for years in Seattle. Combining bus and bike depending on the weather.
The idea of building residential housing above is nice, if we expand the country could look nice like the video clip they showed in this video however I just wish they were not all apartments for rent and there was an option of owning I.e more condos .. more community and close proximity to everything is exactly what this country needs.
Its convenient if you just need to go to one store, but its a pain in the ass when the stores are across each other in a strip mall so you either re-park the car a minute away or walk thru the parking lot. Walking in a strip mall sucks compared to walking in like a downtown.
With so many big store chains dead and gone, survivors like Macy, Dillard, and JCP are lucky to have at least a place to stay. Brick and mortar stores are crumbling. It hurts like a baby boy losing his parents at the age of 2.😢😢
Maybe we just need to admit who we are: *Embrace freeways *Double down on strip malls *Triple down on track housing Get the prices down on everything by doing the things we know how to do and providing the things people have shown they will use. It's not my declared personal aesthetic, but if I'm honest... I drove on the freeway today, visited a strip mall, and live in a track home 🤔. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The majority of people choose to spend their money on the things you listed. The majority rules-that’s why the country is overrun with these things. The consumers really are the kings.
Bull-crap - they cause traffic jams, fatalities and unneeded "stupid" traffic. The biggest issue I have with these "strip" malls is that I can't remember what "corner" a specific store I saw it - they all look the same. So, what happens? I end up shopping at a completely different store! The fact that I can't find a jewelry store to fix my items or a shoe repair is really criminal. Even the mom and pop laundry mats where you could go in and out are absent. They build these "Tide" Cleaners which are all corrupt and investor-run with horrible customer service and people who have no clue how to keep their businesses afloat. This may be a "boom" for these greedy people who want to build these shopping centers, I predict they won't last too much longer. I'm so sick and tired of hearing "investor" this and "investor" that. Everybody is getting too greedy sucking every dollar out of the struggling worker. I hate this country for what is has become.
if you hate hearing "Investor this and investor that," then perhaps you should watch fewer CNBC videos... It does stand for "Consumer News and Business Channel," so it's likely to have a lot of that type of wording...
I hate large malls, I hate strip malls, I hate traffic, I hate cars, and I love saying those things. There, I just summed up this entire comment section.
@@randosando44 we are in the middle of massive shift in consumption patterns fueled by social media , high speed internet widely available and online shopping.
@@LouisSubearththank all the baby boomers for that! They bought into the urban sprawl! Instead going on vacation to Europe! We could have loved to go downtown in most big towns or cities here in America! However single family zones and nimby movement is part of the problem! Each time they add a bike infrastructure or make changes to add sidewalks to homes that are closer to downtowns! Many local people that resides in those favorable blocks will complain in city hall meetings. Sidewalks are more common in the east coast between neighborhoods than any other area in the country. Urban sprawl was more experimented on in smaller areas in the country where more diversity was present. Highways and stroads are meant to divide between neighborhoods and provide a barrier between people we don’t want to be near from. In Houston, going from one side of Houston to another can take about 30 to 45 minutes due the immense urban sprawl!
I actually enjoy going to malls. just walking around and window shopping. I just dont like those open air types with the parking spaces out front of stores.
Our best local strip mall is often busy, and includes: Big 5 Sporting Goods XFinity/Comcast AT&T Round Table Pizza Ice cream parlor Massage parlor Musical instruments and sheet music store Thai restaurant Chinese Restaurant Donut shop Liquor store Poke/japanese quick restaurant Pet food/supply store Safeway Supermarket Walgreen’s drugstore FedEx kinko’s Shoe store Starbucks Taqueria + a couple other names I can’t remember right now. The Safeway is the largest and tallest store. The other stores are much smaller. The strip has an awning over the main storefront walkway, and the parking lot is full of trees.
They are disgusting….i drive 10 extra minutes to skip them on my drive home. Whyyyyy is their 20 miles of strip malls….20% for sale empty. Vape shop, fast food, dollar store, dentist, taco shop (this one im cool with), nail and a weird outpatient that use to be a kohls.
I have more nostalgia for my small childhood strip mall than a mall. It was walking distance from home, to our school, and local park. It had a grocer/supermarket, fish and chip shop, hairdresser, toy library and service station (possibly a couple of others). Everyone from the neighbourhood used the same shops. Once things started shutting down there, the community really lost it's anchor and you had to leave the suburb to do shopping, get a haircut etc. Whenever I've returned, the suburb has felt dead in comparison to when the strip mall operated.
This has to be a false trend or misleading statistics. From what I see, strip malls are dying. How can a strip mall be a destination or a place where people visit frequently? People only go to strip malls because it's convenient (once in a while) not because they want a quality experience or a destination/third place. That's like saying 7/11 is the next major shopping destination. Regardless, America will promote anything for our car centric failed society instead of building walkable cities
@@Jasmine215100 so the rest of the world walks around in the hot summers and the cold Winters, sunshine and rain. But yet American can't? Here in NYC we walk in the summer and winter, it's not an issue....just pointless excuses
@@xwrtk nobody goes to the strip mall every single day and individuals were there once a week before a specific item. You're confusing the overall shopper population with individual shoppers. Tendencies
@@SofaSpy Shockingly, I do know people who go to strip mall everyday and not because they work at one. My great uncle in law goes a strip mall every single day because he’s bored as someone who is retired.
One thing I see a lot is a strip mall with an apartment complex behind it so you have to go through the mail every time you came and go from your home.
Why don't they and others switch to more traditional North American and European stores dotted all over the neighbourhood rather than lame strip malls?
""It discriminated (against) those without an automobile..." Pedestrians aren't people. They haven't been for decades, so despite our business (I've often shopped and carried purchases away in multiple bags), we don't factor into the equation at all. You don't matter until you're in a car, unless YOU'RE the one not in one...or your son, or daughter, mother, father, or niece or nephew.
Strip malls pop up constantly in my city. Like a damn plague. And no matter the size, you can be sure each and every one will include- dental office, nail salon, and a Mexican restaurant. If big enough, throw in a liquor store. If the strip malls actually had greater variety of interesting businesses, it might be less painful to see them taking over a once nice area.
Honestly the idea of converting them into mix-used would be the best bet. This would also help with traffic in small ways, and help with building and retaining better communities.
I prefer strip malls. I don’t like to shop a lot or ever go to more than 2-3 stores at a time tops, so strip malls fit that shopping style much better. Haven’t been to a mall in years. 🤷♀️
The strip malls near me are struggling to keep tenants, while the actual mall seems to be doing okay. This is in an area with rapid housing construction and rising home prices.
I hate traditional malls. I just want to park and go into the store. I don't want to have to spend an hour walking past hundreds of stores I'm not interested in just to get to the store I want to go to. You have to make it convenient to shop otherwise people will just shop online. You can't beat being able to just pull up in front of the store and go in. One of the reasons I refuse to buy Apple products anymore is because if I ever need to go to an Apple store for service I have to go to the fricking mall. I'd literally rather go to the DMV than the mall because it's a more pleasant experience. At least you can just pull up to the DMV and go inside!
Absolutely opposite opinion to that woman who likes malls and feels attachments to them. Malls are uninteresting. Street scapes with shops along them are far more interesting. Except in the US where roads are often wide with carparking areas. Look at the United Kingdom..southern England has ‘high streets’ and they are gorgeous
My state nj has a strip mall basically every half mile 😂 it’s ridiculous. People buy so much junk I guess, they’re definitely thriving. Would be nice to have more configurations, like a few are designed like an outside malls those are nice. I’m not a big shopper either so it’d be nice to have some with more activities, outside green space basketball courts or something, so guys could do things while their women are shopping.
This isn't just a trend in US. In South Africa, strip malls (known as 'shopping complexes') have attracted young adults, driving them away from Malls and thus shopping centres/malls in major cities are in trouble.
Typical strip mall these days:
Dollar or Discount Store
Bad restaurant(s)
Cell phone store
Dentist or Urgent Care
3 or 4 overpriced clothing stores
Smoke shop
Nail Salon
Maybe a hair salon or spa
Dentist and overpriced clothing store? You live in a nicer neighborhood than I do.
You forgot the Liquor Store
Donuts
Perfume/cologne store
UPS or other shipping/mail place, dry cleaners
Miles of cookie cutter houses + strip malls is so depressing and dystopian. This is one of the worst parts of America. Bring back mixed zoning!
There are even churches in strip malls now.
@@dirtyharry205 that has been the case for decades now tbh
Facts lol I've lived in Mesa, Arizona my whole life which is considered the largest suburb in America but also the most boring and car-centric hellhole in America.
Houses made of Ticky Tacky & we all come out the same.
agree
who else is voting for Donald Trump - America has gone to hell under Kamala Harris
Short term planning and ugly aesthetics is the American story 😭
It’s all about maximizing profits
Who cares what a building looks like? Who has time to care? Get a life and complain about things that actually matter.
@@millennialodyssey5956yes who cares if our cities are ugly as sin all that matters is MONEY 🤑🤑🤑
@@bubastis6306all of them? Highly doubt that, but either way the other commenter has a point, even if some or most of these areas or buildings were your definition of ugly, it's not that important to begin with.
@@thechaospredator1947 I dont think he has a point. If he truly had one he would not have wasted his time commenting. And cities with old or new beautiful architecture would not get so many tourists. While most "practical" designed areas get left behind as soon as ppl can afford to. Of course it isn't as important as food, shelter and health. But ppl tend to feel better in a surrounding that is pleasing for them.
It's almost like our entire lives have been heavily influenced by corporations and their shortsighted financial decisions.
Can't even find the pair of shoes you want in real life anymore.
Pseudo-culture is a term used to describe a culture that is engineered for the material gain of a group or individual, often for mass consumption.
I know! I used to live for Payless Shoes. Even DSW is no longer easy to find anymore
This is because most of society will take extraordinary measures to never interact with the bottom decile of society. That includes erecting all kinds of new buildings not easily reached through public transportation and walking so that only car owners can access.
You can but in Italy.
whos fault is that.....
This country often feels like a Shein order gone wrong. If I were an architect, I’d be ashamed to be part of building these strip malls. We have so much potential for creating beautiful aesthetics along our highways and in our towns, yet we settle for cheap materials and uninspired designs. It’s just too much.
Our surroundings play a crucial role in shaping our mental health and overall well-being, and strip malls do nothing to uplift us. Instead, they contribute to a bland and stressful environment. It’s time we start a conversation about this because it’s simply unacceptable. We deserve spaces that inspire and comfort us, not ones that drain our energy. Let’s advocate for more thoughtful, community-focused architecture that reflects the beauty we’re capable of creating.
I totally agree with you - I left my comment above before reading yours, which you so eloquently described. (I just can't stand what this country has become.). It's really, really horrible.
The main intention to build suburbia and such environment as strip malls is money turnover for financial institutions.
They are not interested in european style compact and economical cities.
income per head is much smaller
The parking lot takes up more space than the stores lol
Money is the driving force for all of this. Profit margins and ease of building plans. No one is asking these companies to build fancy buildings. Unfortunately
Yeah, the unfortunate reality is that beautiful design ≠ high conversion rates when it comes to retail shopping.
When you travel in Southeast Asia you notice that traditional indoor malls are still a big thing there. One big reason is they're air conditioned in a very hot climate. Also Asians still relish the 3rd place, have a stronger sense of community, and have a much better infrastructure that's not so car centric.
exactly there are also markets and discount stores to get everyday needs and also decent food thats affordable
sometimes it's more than just "decent" - my uncle brought me to a mall in Bangkok because he knew one vendor had one of the best "kow soi" outside of Chiangmai & wow was he right!
It's because there's a different business model over there. It's not uncommon to have an entire street of people selling basically the same things, there may also be "department stores" where the departments are owned by different people, which is more or less just a regular mall in a more compact form factor.
It's a different buying culture and I wouldn't necessarily ascribe it to being more community oriented as malls were massively big in the US and really only started to decline due to the availability and practicality of online shopping. All of those countries will eventually have the opportunity to rely on online shopping like the US does, and then we'll see. But, when parts of Asia just recently got credit cards, it doesn't make for a particularly accurate comparison, as before CCs and debit cards became common in the US, people mostly had to shop in person, or send a check with an order form to receive the items later on via mail.
When someone talks about "Asians" positively they're talking about East Asians like Japanese and Koreans, not Southeast Asians that are a stone's throw from the third world.
As I understand at least in the U.S., Dallas, Texas has more indoor malls than anywhere else in the country. It's the culture, I guess.
We are never escaping the car centric hell word allegations
Watch Not Just Bikes, Flurfdesign, About Here, Oh the Urbanity, and Yet Another Urbanist on reducing car centric design.
My initial thought as well, lol. I love how at the end of the video, the "successful" format of the strip mall is basically....a small town format. It's almost like we never should have abandoned towns and cities in the first place!
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c Adam Something has some Urbanist stuff that's good too. Don't forget Alan Fischer either
The only way car centric design will go away is when freedom of association is restored. Otherwise, anything great that gets built gets destroyed by easy access from the bottom decile of society.
@@JohnDoe-vh4rtCan you go into more detail about that? It's pretty vague.
Wow - a shop on the ground floor and potentially residential floors above...what an innovative thought. welcome to EVERY city in Europe EVER.
Been like that here forever too..
U mean welcome to every city in the world 😂 this isn’t a Europe thing 🤡
@@chadxlr3978 Yes mr clown. Clearly its not an american/canadian thing. And my personal experience is from Europe so i give it as an example
@@GunsNRoses87AXL There's apartments on top of shops in my city. I live in the US! It's totally a thing in the US.
@@PASH3227
Yes there are but it’s a
New thing and
Late to the game.
The rest of the world has done it for centuries.
They all have the same crap in them. Every time I see one being built, I say, "lemme guess, another nail salon, dry cleaner, dentist office, and liquor store will be added here." Sure enough, that's what goes in.
What else are you expecting? A shopping center without some of the common businesses doesn't make for a very good shopping center. If you want an arcade to be in a shopping center, go ahead and open one and see how long you stay in business.
Apparently, every city needs the same crap, and loads of them.
@addanametocontinue That's kind of an ignorant response. The same stores, or types of stores, definitely doesn't need to be in every strip mall blocks away from each other, and yet they are. It's pointless.
The ones I've lived near have added stores like Ross, TJ Maxx, Big5 Sporting Goods, Planet Fitness, maybe a Neighborhood Walmart. Some have a Trader Joe's or Aldi. A Starbucks or Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Some also have restaurants including upscale Italian restaurants or decent (and expensive) Japanese or Korean BBQ.
There's still the nail salon, laundromat, burger place, and hair salon type centers, but there's more options now where these exist.
@@jeffs6090that’s sort of like saying McDobalds don’t need to be next to Burger King, Wendy’s, or Jack in the box
“A small town, where you may even have stores at the ground level, and an apartment on a second or third level. More green space, more walkways, pedestrian only areas, places for outdoor dining”. Oh my God, Thomas LaSalvia just discovered Europe!!
And most of Montreal, New York City, Boston...
And the years before the US (and now almost everyone else) was sold cars as the only option for transportation and parking, etc was regulated into local building codes and single use zoning
What really sucks about this "revelation" is that most of the U.S. actually had such spaces a hundred years and even a few decades ago. Then the auto industry lobbied hard to get rid of public transportation networks that had existed and give everybody an automobile and then slowly bulldoze our beautiful city centers and community spaces (sometimes along racial lines) in order to plop down a highway and remove any sense of community and identity and personality from our cities.
It's like that even in some small North American cities and the Main Street of some small towns.
Oh God here come the public transport drones again
That excessively large parking lot is one reason housing is so expensive. They take up so much space. When a store goes out of business you get a dead spot in the neighborhood.
As soon as cars start _driving themselves_ , you'll be able to kiss those parking lots goodbye.
@@grantorino2325 How?
@@nihilisticpancake308
When robotaxis become cheaper than taking a city bus, it will behove companies such as Waymo to _keep them moving_ .
A parked driverless car simply doesn't make any money.
Parking lots only exist because cars are currently parked about 95% of the time. But as soon they function as a de facto conveyor belt, there'll be no need to park them (except overnight at a Waymo-owned garage for charging).
@@grantorino2325 I feel like that should be possible with regular taxis already if possible.
@@nihilisticpancake308
Not at all.
First of all, there are _only so many_ human taxi drivers. In a vast American metroplex such as Phoenix, Dallas, or Atlanta, it's not unusual to wait more than half an hour for a vehicle to arrive for _each individual leg_ of a trip. Extrapolate that to a mother who must go grocery shopping, transport her children to activities, and get home in time to cook and clean.
Second of all, even if we could increase the number of human-driven taxis tenfold or more (fat chance!), said drivers could still reasonably only work 11-14 hours a day, having to eat, sleep, shower, etc. As it stands, Uber drivers must pay for their own gas, car repairs, insurance, and _wear and tear, as well as depreciation_ before making any money to pay for their own food, clothing, and shelter. This _already_ leads to long, drudgerous working days that increase the likelihood of accidents and falling asleep at the wheel.
And third of all, riding a taxi everyday is _far more expensive_ than taking a city bus. Factor in the inconveniences mentioned above, and the typical American will rather take his chances driving a cheap, old car-and often postponing necessary repairs and maintenance.
With robotaxis, everything will become tremendously cheaper, faster, cleaner, and safer.
America's built environment is so ugly
The outskirts of European cities look exactly the same , Italy and spains suburban areas look like Arizona or Utah
Theres a lot of beautiful areas
@@jonkiyosaki6600 Kind of. In a lot of ways, I think suburban Europe has a lot of stuff that looks like the U.S. from 30 years ago, but the U.S. has been busy since then building even bigger and dumber stuff. I've seen a lot of things that I refuse to believe could exist anywhere in Europe.
CityNerd recently did a video about urban highway interchanges, something which he concluded were so dysfunctional and unique to the U.S. that not even Canada, the most culturally similar country to the U.S., really had any.
It's amazing that building apartments on top of strip malls is some radical idea. Many countries in the world have towns like that where they have shops at the bottom floor of the apartment building or a building nearby. When I lived in Korea, my apartment building was less than 1 minute walking distance from a small grocery store, pharmacy, convenience store, coffee shop, and several restaurants.
It's nothing radical. happens a lot in the US now.
NY has them to
Nobody wants apartments in suburbs.
@@manthd7744 why not ?suburs are a drain on the local economy I live within a 5 mile radius of most everything easy walking biking distance
The Mega-mart concept and grocery store still dominates suburbia. HUGE FOOD MARTS. They exhaust me…by the time I do my own check out, I realize I hate shopping now. I hate shopping online now too. Whatever arrives I am usually disappointed with, knowing I would not have selected the item if I had seen it first in a store. Amazon killed my love for shopping. Its all garbage now.
Indoor malls were popular because they were the only place with air-conditioning other than movie theatres
Which is why I don’t understand the move to these outdoor shopping centers (glorified strip malls). Where I live, it’s nice outside two weeks in the spring, and two weeks in the fall. So it’s either freezing, or triple digit heat. I just went to one of these outdoor shopping centers today, and it was supposedly in the 80s, but it felt like 100! And it’s absolutely stupid because the stores have to compensate, so i have to bring a jacket when it’s 110 out, put it on in the stores, then take it back off once outside. In the winter, I have to wear a coat, gloves, maybe a scarf, and take them all off in the stores, since they’re heated, and then put everything back on whenI leave. Every single store, I have to do this. I could drive farther to a physical mall, and not have to worry about it, only most are all dead, with anchors relocating close to me as individual stores. Im not going to make a special trip just to go to a Macys or a Pennys. I may visit, if I’m at a mall, and it just happens to be there however.
@@UmmYeahOk you have logical understanding. That's what I've been thinking about for a long time now.
So basically there are no community spaces in the US except malls? That is sad.
@@veronikakhan5582 And the indoor malls are basically going out of business
That was particularly the case 50 to 60 years ago, when A/C was much more rare in private residential homes!
I definitely understand why strip malls works in warm weather areas, but in cold weather or rainy locations why are the malls dying out? Why would anyone want to walk outside from store to store in bad weather?
Shopping malls are dying out due to online shopping, whereas, strip malls often offer service oriented businesses where one has to go in person.
Why go out when you can stay at home and with a click of a button have things sent directly to your house. No need to go out of your house these days other than to try on clothes. Internet has killed retail. Netflix would be still mailing red envelopes.
I think the biggest reason would be the convenience of strip malls. Just a quick in and out. Going into a regional mall just seems like more of a hassle, unless you have a lot of time on your hands and intend to hang out for a while. Malls are more appealing for the "experience" they offer, but in today's busy world, that's becoming more and more of a luxury for working young people. Not to mention with the older people who may be the most drawn to a traditional mall, they're getting older and getting out less and less, and the oldest are dying off. Put all of this together and you have a recipe of decline for malls.
@@mlong9475 Not everywhere. Not in all cultures. Where people value looking good brick and mortar retail is still doing fine. Montreal and many European countries are examples.
@@TheNewgreatlife We'll NEVER give up our American "Fast Food" experience!
In the south they are building strip malls in the bigger suburbs but are rebranding them calling them town centers in each area of the city. They include housing, restaurants, cafes, hotels, grocery stores, clothing/houseware shopping and entertainment/nightclubs, gathering spaces / parks & lawns and outdoor amphitheater. Every Friday night there’s a different theme, or music or entertainment. Parking is an under ground parking garage or a tall parking garage.
How safe is it going to these places? What about muggings/carjackings?
Yes and I like them.
You’re right. Most of the Town Centers I’ve seen in GA, SC, NC and AL are convenient located next to new housing developments or large apartment communities. They often have a nice community feel as well as aesthetically pleasing.
@@Jasmine215100 I stayed at one when I was on a business trip. A Doordasher or someone tried to run me down in the crosswalk while I was walking to dinner. The ring road around the center had 3 lanes each way in spite of there being almost no traffic, so it wasn't like he didn't have room to just drive around me if he didn't want to wait 2 seconds.
So... not very safe.
Good to know--because we urgently need higher density communities with public services/jobs/recreational benefits for everyone. Less car centric as well 🙌
8:37 That's BS. People don't go strip malls for ambiance. They go there to shop.
Ambiance 😂😂😂😂.
I never went to full malls either for "ambiance." It was to look, shop, and maybe eat if i was there a while. Lol.
I agree
I disagree. There are some really well landscaped outdoor malls that are just architecturally well designed strip malls. They are actually pleasing to visit versus the cement strip of store fronts. Materials used makes a di as well.
Thats not a mall. Malls are indoors
Microwave society. Strip malls are convenient. You can visually see what’s there without even exiting your car. If you see what you like, park and walk in. Way easier than parking and searching a 50k sq ft building for one or two stores that you may like
@@bossupathomewithtequila I like that term. Microwave society.
Thats not a mall. Malls are indoors
Man I can’t wait until strip malls inevitably fail due to destination shopping, traffic, parking, etc and we see another CNBC video about why brands are moving back into Main Streets.
Or why not redesign and make them better
@@Ed44503this. At one time a community had everything that they needed in one place. You could literally walk out of your house, go to the small drug store which serves also as a grocery store, get clothes next door, and go to the local theater next to that for a flick, and then get some meals at diner next to the theater after the show. Hardly any driving was needed unless it was to visit grandparents in the nearby city or the next state over. This model of suburban life is designed specifically to make the pockets deeper for big corporations. They count on you driving farther out so you pay for gas and therefore make vehicles gas inefficient so they can make more under "luxury models", they count on you eating out because if you had grocers right next to you and you also had your own garden they couldn't poison the food better and cause corporate created inflation like we've seen, there's a whole thing to this. If you don't move and create the life that you want these companies will mainly make you dumber, poorer, and sicker.
@@Ed44503 You can't redesign them. They are fundamentally flawed.
Just look through any thought you have with a money filter on. This is all money driven
God willing
I don't think this will save Macys.
I think it will, as Amazon is not good in luxury brands
I think it'll help keep Macy's around in some areas that have malls that are no longer up to par to justify having a Macy's. Likewise, this will help keep Macy's relevant across the board.
Macy’s is not luxury anymore. Macys is not relevant anymore because of clothing brands it sells or the clothing styles are very outdated. They sold looks that very mass produced overpriced and outdated.
@@gibiad Some Macy’s stores are high-end and those are the stores they plan to focus on the most going forward after this next batch of 150 stores close. By 2027, there will be very few (if any) Macy’s left in regular middle-class malls.
Good - Macy’s is terrible. It might sell some or a few luxury goods but it’s not a luxury experience at all.
What we had in the 50's was way better than anything we have today. We had vibrant downtowns with bus service that came by our home every half hour - only dad needed a car for work. Then came the mall. Downtown became vacant and bus service disappeared. Now the mall is acres of crumbling asphalt with a huge empty crumbling mall. When I was a child that mall land was a paradise where I picked blackberries with my grandmother. What a disaster the malls across this country created. Everywhere it is just UGLY!!!
I think if people keep voicing to the real estate market how ugly and disgustingly cheap their building materials are it may change. It might take a long time, but we should not be accepting strip malls as normal U.S aesthetics in the first place!
@@Jeskrist5 Businesses are always going to try to minimize costs, you can't stop human nature. The issue is with euclidian zoning and parking minimums that when combined makes strip malls the most viable form of commercial development. Get rid of Euclidian zoning and parking minimums and strip malls will go away.
You're forgetting about all the awesome immigration and social changes that started right after the 50s that have since made riding public transportation unbearable
The population was much smaller back in your day lady.
@@wce8007 Immigration is not to blame for America's horrible zoning.
2:23 That stock photo shot of a strip mall is located off Ellice Ave in Winnipeg, Manitoba
It's currently a business trend. A temporary trend if even for 10 to 20 years until the next idea/trend comes along.
Based on the B roll in this report, it seems that they are combining strip malls and shopping centers into one category. I see them as distinct. Strip Malls tend to be parallel to a strode with a crowded parking lot, shopping centers may have multiple buildings in a variety of patterns and may include nice landscaping. By far, the strip mall is the more unpleasant place to be, especially the parking area. They feel like liminal spaces with little charm. Nicer shopping centers on the other hand may have park-like areas, plazas, and sitting areas. I much prefer a shopping district in a walkable established neighborhood to either of those suburban alternatives.
This!!! Well said I understand 100% what you said. Look up at “the Pearl” in San Antonio or “MKT Makrket” or “the post” in Houston is that what you mean?
@@AntonioMartinez-il5bg Yes, I think. Such areas are pleasant to visit. You might go just for the experience. That’s not the case with strip malls.
get over yourself. Strip malls are fine.
@@zelloguy bro came to comment - stuff lol
@@zelloguy For you. You probably don't value aesthetics, history and culture.
When all the stores that used to locate in malls move to strip malls, be prepared for prices in strip malls to go up.
Strip mall aren't cheap they're convenient, usually have better options, and are less crowded.
@@MalevolentBiteany retail space isnt cheap and the whole system is jackbooted so they want references credit check they want to know every dime you make. You say "can i just pay 6 months upfront" they say "yes but fill application" like youre applying for a job the privilege of getting to pay them your fortune on a monthly basis. So yeah i have my complaints haha. like come on people god is in control wake up i have a whole town in cali with my name plastered all over it isnt that refrence enough just take my cash why am i filling out any paperwork. I dont walk aroumd demanding peoole fill out paperwork if i had a csmpsite id be like yo bro 10 dollars you can stay from one midnight to the next and for 20 dollars you can stay from one midnight over a midnight and you have to be gone by the next midnight after the 2nd. If peoole work for 7.5 an hour 15 an hour should not an hours work provide for a days needs?
Bath and Body Works has a store in the indoor mall and a strip mall here and we aren't that big of a city.
It's a good area for small business owners. Major retailers moving in will drive out the small business owners.
it's called capitalism
I dont have an issue per say with strip malls other than they are ugly, cheap to a fault, and built back from the street behind ugly parking lots.
Build them at the sidewalk, put the parking behind it, put on a 2nd story for some residencies (if possible), and it's all good.
The expression is "per se", it's Latin.
@@8BitNaptime Dude, whatever. Typos exist.
And the correct sentence is: The expression is "per se". it's Latin.
@@xandercruz900 With a period and no capital after?
😂
@@8BitNaptime 🤣🤣🤣
The strip mall I used to use had great choices ( hardware store,GNC, half price books, etc.) It saved a lot of running around. I would love to see that come back.
Bring Julianne Iwersen Niemann on the show. She changed my life Financially I managed to grow a nest egg of around 120k to over a Million. I'm especially grateful to Julianne Iwersen Niemann, for her expertise and exposure to different areas of the market.
I’ve heard of her
How can i reach her, if you don't mind me asking?
her name is 'JULIANNE IWERSEN NIEMANN'. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
I appreciate this. After curiously searching her name online and reviewing her credentials, I'm quite impressed. I've contacted her as I could use all the help I can get
The thing is people often doubt the prospects of financial advisors like Julianne Iwersen Niemann in business/markets today.
Well it gives me more time to get ahead while they stew in their own pity and doubts as they childishly complain about those spreading the word
I agree with that. I netted more than 300k in 2020 by using a financial advisor, despite COVID and the elections. It was like discovering a life hack.
The strip centers never designed to be pedestrian friendly, and just trying to walk from place to place you’re taking your life in your own hands. Not to mention all of the impermeable surface, adding to Overland drainage and flooding problems, but at least somebody can get a three dollar T-shirt and a $20 taco.
So true 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They should tour Dubai then come back and replan so much change is needed. Totally outdated. It’s embarrassing to take visitors around, you feel sad state everywhere
I love malls. They should make a comeback.
Me too! I love malls and have a good feeling that they will make a comeback.
They're not coming back for just the two of you wishful thinkers.
I prefer an indoor mall than a strip mall.
Especially in places where it’s real hot or real cold , the indoor mall you have everything under one roof instead of having to go in and out of places .
Me too and these strip malls are not malls. They are a plaza or shopping center.
Right but, most don't, and this is why most are failing. Unless you have a very high traffic area, the Mall as we know it will be gone for at least 25-40 years....
Especially in winter& holiday time
Here in Philippines, indoor large malls are expanding.. our climate is hot humid, and we need in house community and fully air conditioned.. and also our cities are crowded which to maximize space due to high rental rates.
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The strip mall nearest to me, with a Wawa convenience store, used to be thriving then within a few months every store closed except for the Wawa. It's been like that for years now. I asked a Wawa employee about it and they said everyone moved out because the rent is too high. Meanwhile the strip across the street is still thriving.
Strip malls are gross. A dystopian wasteland of generic architecture and soulless consumption.
Why don’t they ever build housing on top of the strip mall?
If you live on top of a busy commercial shopping mall, can you imagine trying to sleep after 11 pm or so, when the nightclubs and music start up?
I think it's mainly due to zoning laws. They are trying to do that.
@Jasmine215100 at 11 pm, my town is dead. If there is any noise, the PD isn't far behind.
My mom is older now and they took away most of the seating in our local traditional mall. It’s way too tiring for her to walk from one side of the mall to the stores she wants. A strip mall or outlet is easier for her because we can park close by and walk directly to the store she wants. She can take a break on a bench or back in the car when she needs it. A traditional mall really needs to think about accessibility. There are stores inside you need to walk pretty far to reach because they don’t have a direct outside door.
Drive up/park near accessibility shopping trend started here in DFW in 2000
The thing I love most about living in japan is that malls are still a thing. I love walking around the mall. Having a mall to just be in. Strip malls are a sad solution to a need… and I do not miss them at all
Strip malls are convenient but many of the older ones are run down. The owners take in rent but stop investing in their properties.
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This is very odd to hear because a lot of strip malls around here (NJ and NY) are failing. Yes I have seen some of the trends mentioned in this video with big stores moving into them, but overall I dont see many successful strip malls like that. The only ones I see doing well are those with unique restaurants and in more of a square configuration.
Strip malls tend to be cheaper than traditional malls.
If you mean store cost per square foot, then yes. As to what customer prices will be, then unfortunately, no.
How old are you? They're not cheaper at all! Do you live on another planet?
@@tejanoj3017The building has very little to do with customer prices.
Not for long.
Thats not a mall. Malls are indoors
Strip malls are essentially like "10-20 year pop up shops"... you can easy flip them into something else. I don't blame corporations and big business from investing in them. US consumers have shown that they don't value "destination shopping malls", "downtown shopping districts" and "shopping villages" as much as they did in other generations. People will take their romantic date to the strip mall (just like it's no longer taboo to look for love on a dating app like Tinder), they'll take their families/kids to a meal at a strip mall , etc etc. It is what it is. It make sense that this type of shopping is thriving in a suburban/car dependent environment. Once the urban planning/architecture and transportation changes, the shopping trends will change. Humans will do what's convenient to whatever environment they're in.
The most convenient way to shop is online, except grocery. For me, I can only buy travel essentials items online. Free shipping after a certain amount, work best, I don't have to spend on gas and wait to pay
Emphasis on the word "Convenience!"
@@___beyondhorizon4664 What if you order the wrong size, or you don't like the way it looks after you bought it? Then you have to return it to Amazon or wherever! No surprises when you try it on in person at the brick-and=mortar store!
My boot shop-just outside downtown
Date night restaurant-smack dab downtown
After dinner drinks?-two blocks from the restaurant
Bar-east end of town
So few people have taken an interest in the assets of the city in which they live, that nobody else (none of whom have an interest in the assets of the city in which they live) bothers to support aforementioned assets.
Bring back our community to our community, and it will build community.
We have a Boba problem (whatever the heck that is). Two blocks of businesses, only one good restaurant, and fourteen boba (whatever the heck that is) stores. Drive through the sprawl, you don’t know where you are since it’s absolutely identical. Why would i eat in Noblesville, Indiana, Mesa, Arizona, or half of Colorado, when i could get the exact same thing in Cartersville, Georgia (which used to be a very lovely town).
Thats not a mall. Malls are indoors
Regular mall rent becomes more expensive.
A sign that middle income population in US keeps shrinking to its lower percentage.
Therefore the retailers have to adjust.
An we can't even have walkable towns. Just dead strip malls, chain restaurants, an fast food places.
Our culture is cheap an commodified
It’s hilarious how we’re looping back around to 19th century rural/suburban landscapes. In the 1800s and early 1900s there were tons of villages near one another because it made more sense to walk 5 minutes to the local general store than take the horse or streetcar into the next town. The car made these villages obsolete but with green spaces, walkways, and apartment complexes being added to strip mall properties we’ve essentially rediscovered the concept of a village. Feels like a shame that it took us this long to figure it out.
I'm from Mexico city and nowadays the US just looks the same no matter where you are, stripmall after stripmall with the same things you don't want to buy sprinkled with a couple of businesses you need to go. Sadly it only adds to the notion that the US has no culture and more than looks wise, It's the isolation mentality in which this people live because they don't have a mixed and diverse 3rd place anymore which is definitely helping extreme social divisions. No wonder that in a society where people work so much and drive and buy in their cars so much everyone thinks they live in their own bubble. It may be convenient and profitable but long term it's going to be awful for this society. And I didn't even touched the pollution aspect of relying on personal transportation, the US is built to make people spend money as soon you walk out the door, that's why everyone is in debt or struggling or getting more in debt in the comfort of their rented home.
Very well said! There are no community areas, just souless chan stores and asphalt.
Most people are in debt and struggling because they are trying to live like those in a higher tax bracket.
Survery was off... nobody is willing to pay more just because it is a stripmall. NOW... look at the people you sent those surveys too... what is their age and income level? Was it varied, or was it pretty one-sided? My guess is it is was more middle class/upper middle class families taking those surveys.
Pacific northwest cities....Oregon, Washington and California. Idiot liberals.
I agree
Strip malls these days:
Dollar or Discount Store
Bad restaurant(s)
Cell phone store
Dentist or Medical Care
3 or 4 overpriced clothing stores
Smoke/vape/weed shop
Illegal casino/slots locations
Nail Salon
hair/massage salon or spa
Liquor store
Pet store
Donut shop
Asian restaurant
Hispanic grocery store
Hipster grocery store (Sometimes)
Perfume/cologne store (usually knock offs)
Laundry/Dry cleaners
Shipping outlet
Title loan place
SOMETIMES a GameStop
Sometimes drug addicts, beggars and homeless people bothering you
And absolutely an eyesore and boring. It's RARE that something cool is in one.
Bring back actual malls.
I miss 'em.
I agree and I love real malls. Those so called strip malls look so ghetto.
@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj No different from the tiny plaza near my house for the past 50 years.
@@ChristopherSobieniakYes, those are like plazas not a mall. I was wondering what a strip mall was until I saw it here. Those are just stores in a plaza not a mall.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj Yes, these places are nothing new.
The strip malls in the town over I shop in have nearly every place I would go to except a movie theater. There’s target, Trader Joe’s, Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Vons, Michael’s, Lowe’s, sprouts, and a host of small businesses and restaurants within a 2 mile radius.
Also Many thanks to laws that let theives & crooks thrive in major cities.
Everyone is afraid of being targeted as "Racist!"
At any given time a third of strip malls go empty. The store turnover is for me somewhat amusing, but sad. There seven strip malls plus a Meijers, Home Depot and Loews, within a mile of my house. There are places in these strip malls that were once inhabited by Borders, Big Lots, Bed Bath and Beyond, Michael’s, places that I could walk to and shop at. What has replaced them are a lot of fly by night furniture, mattress, appliance, fitness centers etc…they never last long, neither do the random eateries. My daily walks have come down to finding out which store is closing this week.
A few more years there will be a dialysis center at every strip mall.
yes
Dialysis is a needed treatment. You’ll die in about 4-5 days without it. Each center can only handle about 75 people a week. The need is great. So don’t complain. If you help some with dialysis you will clearly see the need.
Real Talk... I'm surprised Macy's is late to the party..Also, it shows that we have more land than what we know what to do with. Even though strip malls can be convenient, they can also be very congested.
Every city in this country pretty much looks the same because of these ugly strip malls. I wish we had more nature and less strip malls.
Strip malls are the US equivalent to what we call retail parks in the UK. They are also booming in popularity here over traditional shopping malls.
But a least yours have a reasonable number of parking spots as opposed to the sea of pavement outside of the US ones.
Stupid things Humans do. This is one of them.
Online is the only way I shop having lived in a rapidly growing small town the past 18 years. When they do actually build a store, I still order online.
Abamdoned malls and strip malls and ALLLLLLL of that parking lot space, could all be converted into homes or apartments to help alleviate our housing shortage.
Yeah which in turn brings in crime & squatters.
Redevelopment of our mall is almost complete. Collin Creek Mall is no more.
Drive through the midwest. Plenty of land there to build houses
We had an old mall in my town that they slapped two apartment buidings where the old sears was. 800 apartment units. Revitalized the whole old mall that was basically 70% empty. Now the mall, which is about half the size now that it used to be due to the apartments, is full and the area has turned into a small village.
No mention of single use zoning, mandatory parking lot sizes, and poor urban planning in general.
Strip malls are the architectural showcase of the USA to the World.
My problem with the traditional indoor mall was that I can only carry so much merchandise at a time. I never went unless it was to a specific specialized store ( like a music store or electronics store ). It was easier to go to an outdoor 8:51 shopping center. I could go to a store like , Old Navy, put the merchandise into the car, then walk over to the next store . It was great if a grocery store was in the center.
I would go with the intention of grocery shopping and other necessary shopping ( pet store, dry cleaners) but then go impulse shop at a clothing or craft store .
This. This right here. If traditional malls had shopping carts it would be a game changer. I remember back when I was younger and malls were still packed every weekend. Having to carry all those bags from multiple stores through the entire mall sucked. Especially in the winter when you were also carrying your coat too. And because malls were packed back then you’d have trouble finding parking and have to circle the place looking for a spot.
America becomes more dumpy every time I visit. I warn Europeans to beware of this happening to them
Did a visit yesterday and it's been almost a decade to the states. Man people are so backwards and customer service is horrendous
Thanks for your interest. If you don't like it why don't you stay away?
The crime is worst every year as well !!
so stay home
@@Singlesix6 I have family there, that I have to visit. If not for them, I would not likely never return
The tenant demand is there. The consumer demand is there. [Shows picture of Radioshack and Payless Shoesource]
"Let me know when you see a RadioShack."
Cars, cars, and more cars as transportation is the problem.
Public transportation has proven to be unsafe in major cities.
What I have heard is that car companies lobbied for cities to be built this way!
@@paillette2010 We need to double down - stop fighting who we are.
@@adamoliver4094 clarify
@@theotheleo6830 not really. It’s just that it’s not ridden by the middle class, so no political pressure to improve it.
I rode for years in Seattle. Combining bus and bike depending on the weather.
COMMON SENSE: Cheaper to build and cheaper to lease with more eyes from the road.
The idea of building residential housing above is nice, if we expand the country could look nice like the video clip they showed in this video however I just wish they were not all apartments for rent and there was an option of owning I.e more condos .. more community and close proximity to everything is exactly what this country needs.
Malls are dying in the U.S...but the rest of the world still frequents malls
Its convenient, simple as that.
Exactly 💯
Its convenient if you just need to go to one store, but its a pain in the ass when the stores are across each other in a strip mall so you either re-park the car a minute away or walk thru the parking lot. Walking in a strip mall sucks compared to walking in like a downtown.
This is the answer. I just want to run in and out. Not take two sets of elevators, walk five miles to get to a department store.
With so many big store chains dead and gone, survivors like Macy, Dillard, and JCP are lucky to have at least a place to stay. Brick and mortar stores are crumbling. It hurts like a baby boy losing his parents at the age of 2.😢😢
The gangs that roam the malls make them unattractive real estate.
Not that many gangs roam malls.
Maybe we just need to admit who we are:
*Embrace freeways
*Double down on strip malls
*Triple down on track housing
Get the prices down on everything by doing the things we know how to do and providing the things people have shown they will use.
It's not my declared personal aesthetic, but if I'm honest... I drove on the freeway today, visited a strip mall, and live in a track home 🤔. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Yes, let’s lean into our need to pave everything and destroy farmland so we can starve in a 3500 sq ft house
@@pamalamcbrayer1399 About 30 million acres is used to grow corn for ethanol. We could stop doing that.
The majority of people choose to spend their money on the things you listed. The majority rules-that’s why the country is overrun with these things. The consumers really are the kings.
Bull-crap - they cause traffic jams, fatalities and unneeded "stupid" traffic. The biggest issue I have with these "strip" malls is that I can't remember what "corner" a specific store I saw it - they all look the same. So, what happens? I end up shopping at a completely different store! The fact that I can't find a jewelry store to fix my items or a shoe repair is really criminal. Even the mom and pop laundry mats where you could go in and out are absent. They build these "Tide" Cleaners which are all corrupt and investor-run with horrible customer service and people who have no clue how to keep their businesses afloat. This may be a "boom" for these greedy people who want to build these shopping centers, I predict they won't last too much longer. I'm so sick and tired of hearing "investor" this and "investor" that. Everybody is getting too greedy sucking every dollar out of the struggling worker. I hate this country for what is has become.
if you hate hearing "Investor this and investor that," then perhaps you should watch fewer CNBC videos... It does stand for "Consumer News and Business Channel," so it's likely to have a lot of that type of wording...
"I can't remember what "corner" a specific store I saw it"
Just use Google Maps. Problem solved.
@@desiv1170 Today I Learned.
All I see is acres of land lost to parking lots that will never be filled to capacity
And unused space on the roofs.
I hate large malls, I hate strip malls, I hate traffic, I hate cars, and I love saying those things. There, I just summed up this entire comment section.
And I can further summarize it with one sentence: I hate urban sprawl.
@@randosando44 we are in the middle of massive shift in consumption patterns fueled by social media , high speed internet widely available and online shopping.
@@LouisSubearththank all the baby boomers for that! They bought into the urban sprawl! Instead going on vacation to Europe! We could have loved to go downtown in most big towns or cities here in America! However single family zones and nimby movement is part of the problem! Each time they add a bike infrastructure or make changes to add sidewalks to homes that are closer to downtowns! Many local people that resides in those favorable blocks will complain in city hall meetings. Sidewalks are more common in the east coast between neighborhoods than any other area in the country. Urban sprawl was more experimented on in smaller areas in the country where more diversity was present. Highways and stroads are meant to divide between neighborhoods and provide a barrier between people we don’t want to be near from. In Houston, going from one side of Houston to another can take about 30 to 45 minutes due the immense urban sprawl!
@@junito2899 More than blaming boomers, I'd blame Robert Moses, he's responsible for urban sprawl.
I actually enjoy going to malls. just walking around and window shopping. I just dont like those open air types with the parking spaces out front of stores.
Our best local strip mall is often busy, and includes:
Big 5 Sporting Goods
XFinity/Comcast
AT&T
Round Table Pizza
Ice cream parlor
Massage parlor
Musical instruments and sheet music store
Thai restaurant
Chinese Restaurant
Donut shop
Liquor store
Poke/japanese quick restaurant
Pet food/supply store
Safeway Supermarket
Walgreen’s drugstore
FedEx kinko’s
Shoe store
Starbucks
Taqueria
+ a couple other names I can’t remember right now.
The Safeway is the largest and tallest store. The other stores are much smaller.
The strip has an awning over the main storefront walkway, and the parking lot is full of trees.
They are disgusting….i drive 10 extra minutes to skip them on my drive home. Whyyyyy is their 20 miles of strip malls….20% for sale empty. Vape shop, fast food, dollar store, dentist, taco shop (this one im cool with), nail and a weird outpatient that use to be a kohls.
Like, an Urgent Care Center?
I have more nostalgia for my small childhood strip mall than a mall. It was walking distance from home, to our school, and local park. It had a grocer/supermarket, fish and chip shop, hairdresser, toy library and service station (possibly a couple of others). Everyone from the neighbourhood used the same shops. Once things started shutting down there, the community really lost it's anchor and you had to leave the suburb to do shopping, get a haircut etc. Whenever I've returned, the suburb has felt dead in comparison to when the strip mall operated.
This has to be a false trend or misleading statistics. From what I see, strip malls are dying. How can a strip mall be a destination or a place where people visit frequently? People only go to strip malls because it's convenient (once in a while) not because they want a quality experience or a destination/third place. That's like saying 7/11 is the next major shopping destination. Regardless, America will promote anything for our car centric failed society instead of building walkable cities
You can't walk year round outdoors! Ever notice how hot it's getting?
@@Jasmine215100 so the rest of the world walks around in the hot summers and the cold Winters, sunshine and rain. But yet American can't? Here in NYC we walk in the summer and winter, it's not an issue....just pointless excuses
A lot of strip malls nowadays have a grocery store. Tons of people visit the grocery store every single day.
@@xwrtk nobody goes to the strip mall every single day and individuals were there once a week before a specific item. You're confusing the overall shopper population with individual shoppers. Tendencies
@@SofaSpy Shockingly, I do know people who go to strip mall everyday and not because they work at one. My great uncle in law goes a strip mall every single day because he’s bored as someone who is retired.
One thing I see a lot is a strip mall with an apartment complex behind it so you have to go through the mail every time you came and go from your home.
All that roof space, and no mention of solar panels... seems like one heck of a missed opportunity.
Why don't they and others switch to more traditional North American and European stores dotted all over the neighbourhood rather than lame strip malls?
""It discriminated (against) those without an automobile..."
Pedestrians aren't people.
They haven't been for decades, so despite our business (I've often shopped and carried purchases away in multiple bags), we don't factor into the equation at all. You don't matter until you're in a car, unless YOU'RE the one not in one...or your son, or daughter, mother, father, or niece or nephew.
Strip malls pop up constantly in my city. Like a damn plague. And no matter the size, you can be sure each and every one will include- dental office, nail salon, and a Mexican restaurant. If big enough, throw in a liquor store. If the strip malls actually had greater variety of interesting businesses, it might be less painful to see them taking over a once nice area.
Honestly the idea of converting them into mix-used would be the best bet. This would also help with traffic in small ways, and help with building and retaining better communities.
Strip malls are the uglies things I have ever seen.
What's wrong with a strip mall?
They bring business to the local economy.
It's cheaper rent then a regular mall.
I prefer strip malls. I don’t like to shop a lot or ever go to more than 2-3 stores at a time tops, so strip malls fit that shopping style much better. Haven’t been to a mall in years. 🤷♀️
CNBC: I must inquire as to what corporations are paying you to make these fluff videos of absolute nonsense?
The strip malls near me are struggling to keep tenants, while the actual mall seems to be doing okay. This is in an area with rapid housing construction and rising home prices.
I hate traditional malls. I just want to park and go into the store. I don't want to have to spend an hour walking past hundreds of stores I'm not interested in just to get to the store I want to go to. You have to make it convenient to shop otherwise people will just shop online. You can't beat being able to just pull up in front of the store and go in. One of the reasons I refuse to buy Apple products anymore is because if I ever need to go to an Apple store for service I have to go to the fricking mall. I'd literally rather go to the DMV than the mall because it's a more pleasant experience. At least you can just pull up to the DMV and go inside!
This comment explains why the average American is unfit
If I can avoid going to the mall, I definitely will. It's a pain in the a$$
What is interesting to me is that strip malls gave way to enclosed shopping malls that themselves are now giving way to strip malls.
I hope not cause strip malls look like crap.
They are making nicer strip malls now. With a parking garage, fountains, and outdoor cafe seating.
Strip malls are back in style, quick coffee runs without the full mall hassle, all while avoiding inflation.
How do strip malls avoid inflation?
To avoid inflation and save on mileage, I made my own coffee. I also save time, coffee is ready in 10 minutes
Just noticed a bath and body works opening up in the Target strip mall today.
8:08 Who is culpable of permitting businesses and houses to be built where water gathers?
City mayor is at fault.
Absolutely opposite opinion to that woman who likes malls and feels attachments to them. Malls are uninteresting. Street scapes with shops along them are far more interesting. Except in the US where roads are often wide with carparking areas. Look at the United Kingdom..southern England has ‘high streets’ and they are gorgeous
My state nj has a strip mall basically every half mile 😂 it’s ridiculous. People buy so much junk I guess, they’re definitely thriving. Would be nice to have more configurations, like a few are designed like an outside malls those are nice. I’m not a big shopper either so it’d be nice to have some with more activities, outside green space basketball courts or something, so guys could do things while their women are shopping.
This isn't just a trend in US. In South Africa, strip malls (known as 'shopping complexes') have attracted young adults, driving them away from Malls and thus shopping centres/malls in major cities are in trouble.
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