The Daily Green.com has linked to The Columbus Dispatch for a very on point article that is very close to our hearts since we now have "Coconut Point" and "Gulf Coast Town Center" along with the grand daddy Edison Mall. The Death Of The American Mall (But Not Suburban Shopping)
My thought's on a quick tour of both new centers, have been, "Boy, I sure do not want to have to walk these centers during the summer months." And then to add to the heat, they are broken up into the multi-use area and the "Big Box" area. All that this means is you can work up a sweat in the multi use "sort of" pedestrian area and then walk to your car to turn your "AIR" to high to cool down so you can drive to each big box store and walk across their large parking area! Talk about a pedestrian environment! You get to walk through the parking lots to walk along the "sort of" pedestrian street area. All of this walking is done in our wonderfully HOT sun!! Large shade trees, arcades and covered walkways not included !! If the owner's do not want to pay for air conditioning (global warming ?) that is ok. If you look at the history of building and planning, there are old ways of building BFAC (before air conditioning) that naturally cool people and nature has given us that wonderful living thing call deciduous trees. Amazingly, they have a built in system that knows when to let the sun in (ie. drop their leaves) and when to shade us, and it works for FREE.
My thought's on a quick tour of both new centers, have been, "Boy, I sure do not want to have to walk these centers during the summer months." And then to add to the heat, they are broken up into the multi-use area and the "Big Box" area. All that this means is you can work up a sweat in the multi use "sort of" pedestrian area and then walk to your car to turn your "AIR" to high to cool down so you can drive to each big box store and walk across their large parking area! Talk about a pedestrian environment! You get to walk through the parking lots to walk along the "sort of" pedestrian street area. All of this walking is done in our wonderfully HOT sun!! Large shade trees, arcades and covered walkways not included !! If the owner's do not want to pay for air conditioning (global warming ?) that is ok. If you look at the history of building and planning, there are old ways of building BFAC (before air conditioning) that naturally cool people and nature has given us that wonderful living thing call deciduous trees. Amazingly, they have a built in system that knows when to let the sun in (ie. drop their leaves) and when to shade us, and it works for FREE.
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