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When urban renewal goes wrong: Inside a dead mall frozen in 1990.

Very interesting short film by Bright Sun Films. Along with the usual urban exploration bits, he gives a good history of how and why it failed.

The shopping centre was supposed to revitalise downtown Hamilton, Ontario.

But within six years, it had just a 40% occupancy rate.

A decade after opening, it sold for only CAN$3.6 million — just 5% of what it originally cost to build.

https://youtu.be/NV_c_c_RZdE?si=4fNO5BJAoWzcx_bw

#urbanism #UrbanPlanning #Canada #Ontario @urbanism #UrbanRenewal #malls #DeadMalls #UrbEx #UrbanExplaration

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[-] stardust@fosstodon.org 3 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @urbanism Could make for an incredible skatepark.

[-] jadero@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago
[-] stardust@fosstodon.org 2 points 2 years ago

@jadero Thanks, but don't want to spend money on that for now.

[-] jadero@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Don't blame you! I never noticed it was a paid product. I guess I must have seen it on some channel we had when we still had cable.

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