[pharmakom]

Cities are cash strapped due to low density sprawl, of which malls are just one kind.

[beambot]

So one person acquiesces to "no solution because it's a chicken and egg problem." Another says "let it rot into decaying blight."

Even if suboptimal, revitalizing the mall as a co-working space sounds like a less-bad solution to me. Still open to practical alternatives though. ;)

[admax88q]

Cities are not cash strapped, they just claim to be when they don't want to pay for something. Most cities have tons of cash flow paying for roads, services like garbage/recycling, maintaining existing parks.

If they really cant find the money sell it to developers to make condos or single family homes.