Collected Item: “Defunct Shopping Centers Become Senior Housing Solution”
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Defunct Shopping Centers Become Senior Housing Solution
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This is a news article from the New York Times titled, “Once Meccas of Retail Therapy, Now Homes to Elder Americans.”
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Due to economic hardships brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, many shopping centers and malls have seen their last shoppers. Many of these structures are now being repurposed for upscale, senior retirement living. The article observes that the over-65 population is “increasing by about 10,000 a day,” which makes such repurposing an inventive and useful idea. Wasik also writes that “the retail-to-housing transformation [has] been accelerated by the pandemic.”
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#ASU, #HST485, #Over60, #NewYorkTimes, #retail, #Covid-19, #housing
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/business/senior-housing-retail-redevelopment.html
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John F. Wasik published this article in The New York Times.
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2020-10-24