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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: JohnM who wrote (181542)2/7/2012 12:14:54 AM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (2) of 543356
 
Google turns up this report on mall occupancy: calculatedriskblog.com , concluding:

The vacancy rate for regional malls is just below the record set last quarter, and the vacancy rate for strip malls is just below the record set in 1990. It is still very ugly for malls ... but the good news is new construction is at very low levels.


A countertake on the NYT article from Time is at moneyland.time.com , it pushes a new urbanism angle. The source of the data discussed has this roundup page of real estate news, from which I gleaned the above ref:

reisreports.com

Contained in the first article is the following graphic. I imagine the old "location, location, location" adage applies as ever to any individual instance

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