The desperate remedies of shopping malls to survive

he image is bleak. Some 500 shopping centers in the United States have become the corpses of a real estate expansion without measure. The malls in concrete ruins where previously there were shops, wide corridors and ornamental fountains die before the unstoppable growth of the online stores like Amazon.
Photographer Dan Bell portrayed with his camera the death of a commercial system that collapses in the United States. He has turned the desolation of the moles of cement into art through a video of YouTube that he has called the Dead Malls Series .
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The business model is in question. With the reduction of buyers in large shopping centers, this year will close 3,500 stores of major brands. In the United States, where there are only 22 ghost shopping centers in New York, transformation has begun.
The owners of the malls are turning previously sold clothing surfaces into new uses such as new high schools, clinics, office, mini-apartments and even Pentecostal churches.
In order not to reach this catastrophic scenario, shopping centers in Spain have already taken measures . Some of them desperate. So far, three shopping centers have closed in Spain: Dolce Vita (Coruña), Urbano (Moro de la Frontera, Seville) and M-40 (Madrid), which has been bought by the Venezuelan group Sambil and has just reopened with modality of outlet.

But there are dozens of shopping centers that face difficulties and begin a process of conversion to save their declining incomes. Major brands like Zara and Mango have started a strategy of concentrating on large buildings in city centers.

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