# Fuck strip malls. Straight up the keister. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 29, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342 "2011-03-29T03:25:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342/41 "2011-03-31T00:31:42Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I like that Crocker Park place in Cleveland. Would that be defined as a strip mall or something else? If you know Crocker Park in Westlake OH (west of Cleveland), then look north of Crocker Park, across Detroit Road and to the west of Crocker Road, where the Sears, Dodd Camera, and Marks food store is, because those stores are located in a strip mall. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342/42 "2011-03-31T01:46:47Z")
> [@chela](#): > > My wag for all the strip malls is that they are built and viewed strictly as investments for those into REIT’s0real estate investement trusts). Forget supply and demand or even demographics, it’s the money managers looking for big returns who have pushed the envelope iwth retail/office space. So does the thinking work like this? 1. Build strip mall anyoldplace land is cheap and there’s traffic. Never mind demand or rentals for commercial pace in the area, look for big returns from ??? 2. ??? 3. Profit! What am I missing here? Where and when are they expecting these “big returns”? Smarter ventures than this get shitcanned by investors every day, usually because there is no herd mentality behind them. Has the commercial real estate industry reached a kind of [shoe event horizon](http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon), where they’re just building strip malls to take their minds off their troubles? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342/43 "2011-04-01T03:20:50Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I had the same question. The OP is military, so maybe he’s thinking of the god-awful dumpy strip malls around Fort Belvoir. Manassas, Manassas Park, Ceterville, Woodbridge. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342/44 "2011-04-01T15:34:47Z")
Woodbridge is a hell hole. But they have Swedish meatballs with lingonberry jam! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342/45 "2011-04-04T02:09:19Z")
> [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](#): > > Come to Portland… Or Seattle. Back in the 60s and 70s, the local mall\* was a thriving neighborhood center, but fell into Abandoned Strip Mall Mode in the 80s. But even though it was at death’s door, it’s back (with a ven-gee-ance)! And once again not only growing financially, but a hub for the locals. \*(Westwood Village) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342/46 "2011-04-04T02:33:19Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > No. Neither are strip malls for that matter. There are several examples of dead malls and there’s even a neat website about them. > > [http://deadmalls.com/](http://deadmalls.com/) I can see Bannister Mall from my back deck:( [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-strip-malls-straight-up-the-keister/576342.md?page=2)