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Originally Posted by jaydorn
I think these designs are an attempt to shoehorn “human scale” design into previous car dependant locations. It does end up being horrible for both cars & humans as a result.
The thinking seems to be “let’s keep the big box stores, but slap some pedestrian infrastructure bits and sidewalks to create the illusion of walkability, it’ll be charming.”
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Charming or in other words, less depressing and less maintenance cost of running a dead mall. Even during better times for this mall, people would drive to Best Buy and then get back into their car and drive to Walmart.