That is true...
but also the idea of
solely commercial large scale multi-store shopping INDOOR malls has been replaced with
multi-function shopping, living, recreating, and work in OUTDOOR mixed-used centers on the same piece of property.
So many of these
DeadMalls.com: Stories
are being replaced or rejcted with these.....
Basically, the trend is to go back to the "traditional" town center/Main street type shopping experience, but add housing and offices above or within easy walking distance. Matterfact, I was out at City Center in Houston this past weekend, and it was literally packed. Doesn't mean that indoor malls are completely gone, cause right down the highway is Memorial City Mall and it's still busy, but the outdoor experience is what's hot in the streets
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The craziest example I've seen of mixed use combines green roof on top of the building is this one right here, which is going up outside of San Jose, California. Probably the wildest one I've seen about to go under construction
.....this shiit is going to be a tourist attraction on it's own.
Vallco plans revealed: Rafael Viñoly design includes 30-acre sky-park over Cupertino mixed-use center; would be world's largest green roof - Silicon Valley Business Journal
Vallco plans revealed: 30-acre sky-park over Cupertino mixed-use center would be world's largest
Aug 26, 2015, 1:00pm PDT
On Wednesday, officials revealed a sweeping $3 billion design from international “starchitect” Rafael Viñoly, working with Olin Landscape Architects, that has, as its defining element, the world’s largest green roof — a 30-acre elevated park that seems to dance off the tops of buildings, connecting them to each other and the ground.
“After we bought Vallco, we said, let’s not to do a run-of-the-mill project,” said Sand Hill principal and founder
Peter Pau in an interview earlier this week. “Why would we bother? We’re looking at a unique situation, and we have to do something unique.”
With an orchard, a vineyard, and 3.8 miles of trails meandering above Cupertino, the project — announced at a meeting Wednesday at the Rotary Club of Cupertino — is like nothing ever attempted. Its ambition continues below the landscape layer: A 15-block, mixed-use street grid filled with 625,000 square feet of retail, 2 million square feet of office and 800 residential units.
Called “the Hills at Vallco,” it’s the biggest bet yet for Pau’s Sand Hill, a prodigious development firm that is being backed in the deal by the U.S. subsidiary of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund. And it is not without risk.
The project is large for Cupertino — a town where much smaller proposals are often met with resistance, and sometimes referendums. The retail roughly equals San Jose’s Santana Row mixed-use juggernaut, while the office is twice the heft of the Adobe Systems headquarters in downtown San Jose.
Then there’s the elevated park, which would be a tremendous engineering feat. It’s at least twice as big as anything attempted before it, Sand Hill officials said. And while they say their team knows how to build it, they acknowledge the cost is huge.
. and it was barely past noon on a monday
