{"id":6388,"date":"2021-12-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2021-12-22T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T15:17:12","slug":"malls-ditch-shopping-to-fill-large-number-of-vacant-retail-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6388","title":{"rendered":"Malls Ditch Shopping to Fill Large Number of Vacant Retail Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Battered mall owners need to fill more than 90 million square feet, about the size of 16 Mall of Americas, heading into 2022.  With dozens of retail chains already cutting back or shutting down, it won\u2019t get any better if the newest pandemic wave scares off shoppers. So landlords are wooing businesses that have little or nothing to do with shopping. Casinos, amusement parks, medical facilities, storage units, hotels, schools, offices and residences are fair game, as even healthy shopping centers are forced to rethink their game plans for next year and beyond. \u201cIn 2030, you\u2019re going to see most malls are going to be not considered a mall anymore,\u201d said Greg Maloney, chief executive for Americas retail at real estate services firm JLL. \u201cThey\u2019re going to be considered a mixed-use asset.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6390\" width=\"239\" height=\"180\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>They might wind up looking like Mall of America, the biggest one in the U.S. whose layout includes Nickelodeon Universe and an aquarium, or like Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CBL Properties. Last August, this owner of about 100 less-prestigious malls and shopping centers added the 80,000-square-foot Hollywood Casino on an old Sears site at its York Galleria in Pennsylvania. It brought in industry giant Penn National Gaming Inc. with 500 high-tech slots, two dozen table games and a Barstool Sportsbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battered mall owners need to fill more than 90 million square feet, about the size of 16 Mall of Americas, heading into 2022. With dozens of retail chains already cutting back or shutting down, it won\u2019t get any better if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}