EVERYTHING MUST GO

 

Century Plaza Mall in Birmingham, Alabama is one of many dead and dying malls. One mile away, the recently deceased neighboring Eastwood Mall in 2006 was replaced with a new publicly subsidized Wal-Mart. In a 2004 property deal, the City of Birmingham gave $10 million of a $15 million purchase price for land for a Wal-Mart Supercenter. (download report here) What if "community development" meant something other than corporate welfare? What if it actually was developed by the community? Could it be any less preposterous for the munificent City Council of Birmingham, Alabama to grant equal funding toward a non-profit neighborhood arts facility?   > next >		links century plaza mall bham retail memories eastwood mall rewound deadmalls sprawlbusters trummerkind bigbox reuse goodjobsfirst dead rising zombie walk monroeville mallhistory mall of the dead do or die is the mall dead? sickmalls