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