[padobson]

What if your house was the shopping mall? When Sears, Macy's, JCPenny, etc all die, there's going to be a lot of shopping malls with big empty spaces. If those spaces were transformed to residential, it'd be trivial to walk to all the little shops currently between the big anchor chains, regardless of climate or season.

[hateful]

There are a few places by me where they've made apartments above a bunch of stores.

I'm in NY, Long Island specifically and they all get converted to Senior or Luxury apartments that cost way more than the average person can afford. But that's getting a bit off topic.

But it would be interesting to have some of those big places converted into cheap apartments. It's like you'd be getting a discount for having ads on your place of residence.

[padobson]

Do you have any links to the places already doing it? I'd like to know more about them.

[jonhendry18]

There's a former mall near Yale in New Haven that was converted to upscale apartments with some retail at ground level.