'Here we are in 2019, zombie survivors of the 'retail apocalypse' surveying the wreckage, and all over New York, here come the malls.' TheWeirdnessIsComing
Photo-Illustration: by Marcus Peabody; source images Getty It was not so very many years ago that an artificial intelligence invaded American homes. Once engaged, it barked orders — provided you had supplied it with batteries . “Attention, mall shoppers,” it told its helpless servants. “Sale at the shoe store! Sale at the fashion boutique! Clearance at the sunglass boutique!”
That was then. The interceding 30 years have not been kind to the shopping mall, strafed as it has been by online shopping on one side and discounters on the other. Recent years have seen a great mall die-off, and mall vacancy rates this year are at their highest since 2011. The 16-story indoor ski-and-snowboard park scheduled to open at American Dream. Photo: American Dream The American Dream, as soon-to-be-realized, is a kind of apotheosis of a new model of mall shopping — it is, at the very least, the most expensive mall ever built in the U.S.
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