What else besides eating, fucking and working out requires physical presence?

base problem with (empty) mall buildings, they maybe 20-30 years old or more and were pretty much originally built with that lifespan in mind. ie. they are now falling apart, to the extent you'll spend more preventing it falling on punters heads than you would building new. They also high maintenance - designed for high rental tenants, building taxes, air-con, security, light + heat, everything is on a cost scale that will kill you. Not that I want to put you off or anything ;) but, sometimes, empty is for reasons

Unironically turn the malls into residential housing

refugee camps/ghettos in about a year or so

The only way for malls to survive is to open more stores that cater to ‘experiences’ vs. retail shopping. I know OP said besides gym, but that is a good option. I think a bar/upscale wine tasting would do good. Weed lounge if your state allows, may be hard because underages love the mall. Haircut, nail salon, massage, arcade, ninja warrior course, pet adoption, high end bowling/darts, peleton classes, bounce houses for kids, indoor ziplining, wine&paint shop, etc. retail won’t go away 100%, I hate buying clothes online, but it will get smaller and more concentrated. The real problems will occur when mall owners can’t pay their leases because too many stores inside have closed. That leads to a real nasty domino effect, especially in smaller malls. You need to sell things that can’t be bought online.

bruh please say you're not doing pure brick & mortar sales. if ecommerce is not already a majority of your revenue it might already be too late.

Shoes are about the only thing I wont buy online. I bought some size twelves leather dress shoes online and they feel okay but would like to try a few on before buying.
I would adjust hours to 9pm and start later in the day maybe lunch time to 9 or 10pm so the drones can shop after work.

Ban niggers from the malls

hmmm, so you allowed to smoke weed but only in the Library, and no internet or devices is allowed. this is a good idea

This is literally the only reason we even built them in the first place, so we didn't have to shop downtown where they were anymore

Idk just a unique environment that breeds discord

Malls at one time were hip and upper class, there was something luxurious about them. Now there a hangout for nigs and other hoodlums and arabs trying to sell cellphone cases and watchbands

>hip
>upper class
>malls
they were never meant for more than middle income suburbanites and bored teens

>arabs trying to sell cellphone cases and watchbands
I still remember the ones that sold bootleg NES consoles that came with more games that you could play before the damn thing breaks. Nintendo slept on a huge market by waiting so long to release the NES Classic, and even then that was a limited edition thing. It's not the same as them having Virtual Console or whatever the modern version is called because nostalgia isn't a first class citizen on those. Sega has their own version you can play Genesis games on that they've been making for years through some third party I forgot the name of

How do you give it back afterwards, basedboy?

Not malls, but empty department stores can be turned into hydroponic farms to grow food. It’s something like 85% more efficient than soil farming.

This isn’t super viable though because as someone already said - these buildings are old and falling apart, and there is an ideal size for an indoor farm. Anything beyond it starts to become more expensive per square foot.

>Malls at one time were hip and upper class
Traditional malls (shopping district with it's roads closed off from vehicles and paved over) still are.
Concrete-shitbox malls are a completely different thing.

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Paint ball with zombie apocalyptic mall theme?

Hear Amazon is talking about retrofitting them for next day warehouses, as they are on major road junctions near populated areas have massive floor space and loading docks. And can be bought cheap, even if bulldozed the large single foot print is hard to get given location to city center.

The mall from my old work was turned into a massive homeless shelter, to be ignored (out of sight out of mind). It made work hard given how many mentally ill would wander into our store across the street after they moved them there.