>>1422907Retard alert
A bunch of hipster bistros and bars serving cloud eggs, avacado toast, and beers with too much hops doesn't invalidate the types of establishments we are talking about here.
The reason a lack of corporate tenants in so called dead malls is good for communities is because it drives down rent enough that poorer people (often immigrants) can set up shop.
You sound like you haven't been in a mall in years and don't associate with people who aren't yuppies, so it's understandable that you are pretty ignorant about society.
This is the same reason old strip malls in shitty parts of town tend to have some of the best local restaurants
I don't think gentrification is bad per se but boy if it doesn't wring the culture out of a neighborhood. Admittedly a lot of downtowns were more or less abandoned until fairly recently, but acting like filing them with yuppie restaurants is indicative of something more than $$$ is way off base.
There's a reason this millennial hipster yuppie shit has been commodified and is now the same in every chic downtown in the country. It's, ironically, just trading one form of corporatized trash for another.
Fuck urban corporate campuses.
