Looking at the big underground LRT station at Westbrook, I think that was a hugely lost opportunity to integrate the station with the mall (redevelop it all).
A lot of bigger cities have their light rail or metro terminals built into shopping/retail complexes which helps pay for infrastructure (income from retail/rent) and also help bring traffic to retailers and create that kind of density to avoid dead-mall syndrome.
This discussion should probably go into the transit thread.
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