Except that they don’t have the necessary plumbing infrastructure to make that feasible. It’d be better and possibly cheaper to tear down entirely and build something actually designed for living.
We must have had very different homeless experiences. I would have gladly taken a micro apartment over a tent any day. Any. Day. It could have been in the middle of a desert for all I care.
A door that locks, a bathroom, a roof, and water easily accessible? Yeah, that is a million times better than the constant fear and animalistic mindset that comes with a lack of basic resources.
A lot of these projects seem to require at least a partial rebuild of the site. So, you might tear down an anchor store and remove parking to add in apartments. Then, the remaining commercial real estate becomes more valuable since it can also be supported by residents.
This. There were 2 malls near me where they spent nearly 10 years total trying different designs on paper trying to find a way for it to be cheaper to retrofit into housing, or anything useful really, and eventually they just tore both down and built new smaller structures on the footprint.
Except that they don’t have the necessary plumbing infrastructure to make that feasible. It’d be better and possibly cheaper to tear down entirely and build something actually designed for living.
They would make easy retrofits into college campuses, or any kind of campus really.
Still better than living in a tent under a bridge, like an embarrassing amount of the us population
Well, depends. If the tent camp is near services and transit, it can be better than a shelter that’s impossible to get food near.
Maybe you’ve never been homeless, but I have.
Keep the food court and turn one of the anchor stores into one-stop services building.
Never mind, luxury condos make more money…
We must have had very different homeless experiences. I would have gladly taken a micro apartment over a tent any day. Any. Day. It could have been in the middle of a desert for all I care.
A door that locks, a bathroom, a roof, and water easily accessible? Yeah, that is a million times better than the constant fear and animalistic mindset that comes with a lack of basic resources.
Where I live there aren’t a lot of places without food and transit near
A lot of these projects seem to require at least a partial rebuild of the site. So, you might tear down an anchor store and remove parking to add in apartments. Then, the remaining commercial real estate becomes more valuable since it can also be supported by residents.
This. There were 2 malls near me where they spent nearly 10 years total trying different designs on paper trying to find a way for it to be cheaper to retrofit into housing, or anything useful really, and eventually they just tore both down and built new smaller structures on the footprint.
And no windows in most of the storefronts. It is not impossible to convert them, but it is not particularly economical in most cases.