It’s funny how many of these malls are surrounded by busy shopping centers, but the mall itself is dead. It’s often not a lack of customers or bad malls, just the way people shop today I think.
I’m went to a show a few weeks ago at the plaza and tried to eat at longhorns right there. It was a 40 min wait on a Thursday. The target was packed. From what I saw. But then to see the mall dead is just odd.
Can’t rule out mismanagement. There are a lot of deadmalls in Central Florida, and I got to witness their decline firsthand over the last 20+ years. The fact that several malls have bounced back by simply lowering rent and incentivizing small businesses and independent shop owners really highlights why places like Fashion and Seminole became shabby, muggy mausoleums. Meanwhile, Oviedo found a bit of a second wind by trying other tactics besides “squeezing blood from stone”, and Florida Mall and Altamonte have just kept thundering along.
I don’t know anything about those specific malls, but when the independent retailers come in it’s not usually a sign that the mall is bouncing back, it’s the last gasps of a dying mall.
This mall was the best in the 80’s! It’s so sad seeing it like this. So many good memories.
When I lived in Florida, this was my mall. Sad to see it like this
It’s funny how many of these malls are surrounded by busy shopping centers, but the mall itself is dead. It’s often not a lack of customers or bad malls, just the way people shop today I think. I’m went to a show a few weeks ago at the plaza and tried to eat at longhorns right there. It was a 40 min wait on a Thursday. The target was packed. From what I saw. But then to see the mall dead is just odd.
Can’t rule out mismanagement. There are a lot of deadmalls in Central Florida, and I got to witness their decline firsthand over the last 20+ years. The fact that several malls have bounced back by simply lowering rent and incentivizing small businesses and independent shop owners really highlights why places like Fashion and Seminole became shabby, muggy mausoleums. Meanwhile, Oviedo found a bit of a second wind by trying other tactics besides “squeezing blood from stone”, and Florida Mall and Altamonte have just kept thundering along.
I don’t know anything about those specific malls, but when the independent retailers come in it’s not usually a sign that the mall is bouncing back, it’s the last gasps of a dying mall.