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A good use of a dead mall is a Community College. A little ugly, perhaps, but workable. You have parking and large rooms already built out.

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They did this with a sort of mixed indoor/outdoor mall in my city, it turned out well and about a third of it is still a shopping center with GameStop, Subway, clothing stores, etc. - it appears to be doing pretty well

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