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They say that when you live in NJ you live within 10 mins of 3 malls. Yeah, it's true. I go for NYC area, because there's no option for Jersey (it would be North Jersey, anyway).
The Miami metro should be on this poll. They have an amazing number of shopping districts and mall options for the relatively small land area size of metro Miami.
Location: Miami (prev. NY, Atlanta, SF, OC and San Diego)
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Yup...it already has Dolphin, Aventura, Sawgrass, Bal Harbour Shops, Dadeland, and Brickell City Centre, among others, but will be even more of a powerhouse after American Dream is completed and becomes the largest mall in the nation.
Yup...it already has Dolphin, Aventura, Sawgrass, Bal Harbour Shops, Dadeland, and Brickell City Centre, among others, but will be even more of a powerhouse after American Dream is completed and becomes the largest mall in the nation.
Location: Miami (prev. NY, Atlanta, SF, OC and San Diego)
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Not everywhere...Miami is a magnet for wealthy foreign buyers; ditto Ala Moana and South Coast Plaza...NYC hasn’t been hurting with recent additions of Brookfield Place, Oculus, Hudson Yards, etc.
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Seriously? Terrible timing...malls are dying, everywhere.
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Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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Seriously? Terrible timing...malls are dying, everywhere.
Exactly. Shows the age of this poll, and how quickly trends can change.
The DC area is a great example of an area where the most shopping mall makeovers into mixed use outdoor retail districts are thriving. There are countless malls that have already been torn down and made into a mixed use center all over the DMV with more on the way.
Seriously? Terrible timing...malls are dying, everywhere.
The Miami metro is in a really unique situation though. There's still is a massive demand for actually going to a store and shopping because of the combination of its unique demographics and the huge wealthy international tourism and snowbird market that they have down there. Compared to places such as Seattle and San Francisco, where many tech geeks and the like really don't want to leave their house these days and actually prefer to use Amazon and such it creates a totally different kind of shopping demand. It's also a major reason why the nightlife around the Miami metro is much more prominent than almost anywhere in the U.S., especially compared to places like you guessed it Seattle and San Francisco. A huge percentage of people actually make shopping and nightlife their main priorities when they travel to the Miami area. Even if the malls died around Miami it's really not a totally bad thing because it opens up places to build high priority stuff in a metro area that is pretty much completely built out with no room left anywhere. Some people don't like shopping at an actual store but I still love it and couldn't really imagine living in an area that doesn't feel the same way. I'm pretty sure the Miami and NYC metros will be the last two large places in the U.S. to lose their high shopping and nightlife demands, which really is a great thing for those two cities if you actually stop and think about it.
philly:
king-of-prussia (2nd largest mall)
franklin mills (3rd largest)
cherry hill mall
philly gallery
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