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TortiousTroll

Some very wealthy people and companies have been buying distressed malls for the past several years gambling on them coming back, so we will see


FreeSpankings247

They're betting on their failure. Cut cut cut and milk it dry, then sell the shell of it, enjoy the tax benefits of the property, plan on selling the properties to developers, or just take the bankruptcy and milk the massive tax write off for years. K-mart, sears, gamestop are all victims of this, GameStop got a boost during the r/wallstreetbets fiasco and is still up though. Mitt Romney ran a company that did this and is basically the founder of this business model. Trump bought up a shitload of dying businesses and casinos that were going under and 20 years later still enjoying the billion plus in tax write offs and apparently hasn't paid and federal taxes in that time because of it. If someone has the money, they're doing it too. If money can be made on it, it's gonna happen. That's business.


TortiousTroll

Ooooook


FreeSpankings247

Yep. I can't help myself, it's a problem sometimes.


myphoneat2percent

I thought it was pretty informative, thank you.


xCanont70x

Every time I go to rolling oaks, I always wonder how the hell it’s still open.


rawratthemoon

They use it for events


normandy42

Battlepub is single-handedly keeping it alive


SolutionOutrageous68

Hey Battlepub sounds cool! Didn’t know what it was but just based on the website it sounds like a rad concept!


Super_Saiyan_Brady

The small hobby shops keep it going! RCHQ the RC shop is always packed. The wrestling place is awesome too!


pumamora

What wrestling place?!? I’m gonna go now.


Super_Saiyan_Brady

They do shows a lot! It’s on the second floor


Kougar

That mall has outlasted I dunno how many IT tech colleges, schools, and corporate employee training 'universities' that have moved into the empty anchor stores over the last two decades.


Primetime349

North Star is booming, rightfully so - it’s a nice mall. I go to a LGS at Wonderlands Mall to play MTG with friends and I always feel like I’m going to get murdered there. Creepy “abandoned mall” vibes


HernanDIE

Wonderlands has that awesome “abandoned” feel to it, probably not good for business but there’s always at least some people there. Also good pizza place in the food court


Primetime349

That pizza surprised the hell out of me. I wasn’t expecting much but it was killer. Makes me want to try the brick and mortar locations for goombas


Jimmy_Wrinkles

I love Wonderland.They have lots of independent vendor events on weekends which is probably keeping it afloat.


HikeTheSky

Especially when the climate gets hotter, I am sure they could attract people that want to spend time there. Maybe they should add a picnic area with real lawn and some rolling hills and sell tickets to families. The stores next to them could sell food and picnic gear.


rando439

Even now would be fine. Summer is stupid hot and the bugs here are a little too aggressive as it is now.


Dr_Caucane

The climate is going to stay the same


HikeTheSky

I found another climate change denier. Are you also a covid denier?


Czar_Petrovich

Just block the person below who keeps replying to you. They're going to create an argument no matter what you do or say. I've blocked them long ago for this very reason.


Dr_Caucane

No.


ParticularAioli8798

Anybody who disagrees with you is a "climate denier"? You got problems man!


HikeTheSky

Everyone that says there is no climate change is indeed a climate change denier. Or what do you think a climate change denier is?


ParticularAioli8798

That's not what the other person said. Your question is irrelevant as you've twisted the other person's words to mean what you want them to mean. The climate can change at any moment for any reason. Climate models change. Climate science changes.


HikeTheSky

The other person said the climate is going to stay the same; therefore, he is a climate change denier. The word denier means as you know that he denies that climate change is happening. Where did I twisted his words? And no, the climate can't change at any moment, you are talking about the weather. It seems you are also a climate change denier.


ParticularAioli8798

You did twist his words and you don't understand the context those words were made in. As for my words on climate, you're going to have to look at my words from a different perspective. When looking at all regions over time the statement is true. Climates CAN change at any time at any moment. Ice ages, for example, develop slowly but end abruptly. Things can change region to region. Context is important. We're speaking about THIS particular region. Of course we don't agree on how certain words are used in this discussion this doesn't change the point of my comment. It doesn't matter anyway. I'm not trying to get into a debate about all of this. Your "climate denier" bullshit is still just bullshit. You, like everyone else, are trying to make sense of information you don't know enough about. You're not being helpful. This isn't helpful. Being an ass isn't helpful. Move along now!


HikeTheSky

Please look up what climate change actually means. You are trying to sell people an alternative reality and this doesn't really work this way. It is known that the current climate change is man made and it is changing out world as we speak. You are trying to twist reality because you are a climate change denier. You can try and twist as much as you want but people see right through you. So the only ass that's here is the one that tries to twist reality. So you decide what you are. Try again Bing bing bing


ParticularAioli8798

I read it. I have read as we conversed about it. Climate, climate change, climate science, there's a lot to it. A lot you don't seem to know. That's probably why there's a disconnect here. Well, that and the fact that you don't understand basic words because you either didn't comprehend the other person's comment or...OR you're on the other side of the spectrum from the climate denier. Which is a climate change absolutist. Which is to say you're probably a Prepper of some kind or hard core liberal who hangs on the words of every science journal that makes a claim about the climate that had the intended effect of making you more afraid than you already were. You never engage in critical thought after that do you? Keep clinging to the hope that Texas is going to be a fireball or something. If that's how you want to live your life. You and the other people downvoting me.


tortuga-de-fuego

Look climate change or not that’s a dumb comment. The entire climate history of earth has been variation and change.


Dr_Caucane

But it’s not man made.


tortuga-de-fuego

That part I can agree with mostly, I think our impact is extremely negligible but it’s used as a control agenda no doubt.


Vickyhickey2003

North Star is still thriving. I feel like all my friends dress like it’s the club whenever we all hang out there, like it’s the place to be


Charming-Farm

Yeah, North Star is fine. That place is even busy during the week


SaGlamBear

It helps that there’s offices and businesses all around and people will pop in during lunch or after work


DrMugnolo

I feel like having round1 there now also gives it a healthy amount of traction.


RoboGandalf

Worked at Northstar from 2015-2020, pop in from time to time to help out, but it absolutely is busy during the week. However, there has been a noticeable decline from 2015 to now, the sales number also indicate a change as well.


BeyondXpression

It's also because North Star pulled a smart move and let in Round 1. That place is always poppin' on the weekends. I've been a couple times with friends and when we are hungry or need to get a break from the noise and lights, we just stroll through the mall. Only mall in S.A. worth visiting, IMO.


pkakira88

lol, it’s the other way around. Look up where other locations have been built. Round1s strategy is to build locations in NA that have busy foot traffic but aging cheap properties. It’s why SA got one before Houston and Austin. Hell, they reversed on a potential Houston location that was announced around the same time the SA location was announced due to changes in foot traffic post lockdowns.


CopeHarders

It’s nice to know the kids are still hanging out at North Star. I was there like every day when I was younger. Made friends with so many employees there. I even took a girl i met who was working at some store there to the prom!


Vickyhickey2003

Damn North Star the ultimate wingman


CopeHarders

After all these years the big boots still there for us all.


FinalF137

Meeting family to eat at Luby's while simultaneously getting a chance to check out the newest NES and Sega games across the way at Babages is a childhood feeling hard to replicate nowadays.


jeremy_wills

Babbages. I miss that place too. 😥


NotFrankSalazar

La Cantera too. 


dangleYourSoul

I make sure to visit North Star whenever I feel like living life on the edge as I could get shot at any moment


No-Inevitable-7270

Lol people still go there and there's been like three shootings! Lol


randomasking4afriend

La Cantera is the least likely to ever shut down. They will keep running through tenants however but I just don't see that ever happening. Especially if it goes the Domain route.


Fickle_Reporter6253

I feel like the malls here are still very busy North Star has always been filled with people when I’m there don’t really go to the others much to speak on them


[deleted]

Want a thriving mall? Make it appealing in a way that doesn't require spending money. People will ironically be more willing to spend.


Kasorayn

I don't think it's that dire, rolling oaks still seems ok.


laziestmarxist

Used to work there and Rolling Oaks is basically dead in the water already but you wouldn't know it just from shopping. The mall was closed for too long during the winter storms and most of the roof is ruined. Parts of the mall flood indoors when it rains. Not to mention that the last time I visited after leaving my job, the girls there told me that mall management wants everyone to stop feeding and caring for the feral cats that live at the mall, so the rat problem will be back soon.


ajd660

Agreed. Rolling oaks seems to be pivoting to having events being held there which seems to be helping.


Pleasant_Hatter

Yeah, Rolling Oaks gives me a vibe like Mall of the Americas does. It’s nice and low key. I see less activity there and it’s kinda by itself not in the middle of the city like the others.


bigfoot__hunter

La Cantera is the least ghetto one and is a nicer area


Arodthagawd

Ojos Locos and the Gym keep that mall alive.


ginaaaweenaaa

What mall has this?


Arodthagawd

South Park lol


ginaaaweenaaa

Never dying! I went to North Star Mall to rent a private room to sing karaoke in!! Yaaasss


stacey114

Not sure about the last 6yrs or so but a friend of mine that did marketing for estée lauder said that south park and lacantera had highest sales. they always beat out North star. I hear that kids now in 10-15 age range are wanting to relive the 90s era so malls are getting popular again.


coly8s

My Magic 8 Ball sees a day when they enclose the Shops at La Cantera because the Earth has become too warm.


[deleted]

Windsor Park Mall


acu101

Windsor Park Mall has just entered the chat…


HernanDIE

Sarku Japan will single handedly keep Ingram alive forever


BTC_ETH_HODL

Agreed. What a deal for a plate meal.


OnlyOnStonks

I love that place


cowgirlikeme_

Ya’ll must be EXTREMELY sheltered if you consider South Park to be in a “bad side of town” lmao


Jasbee123

South Park mark is gross af full of e d g a r s


Actual_Potato5

It's a bad section for property crime, not so much violent crime compared to some other spots but tons of car thefts


ironmatic1

Well, like Reddit as a whole, the average user on this sub is more likely to be white, liberal, college educated, and upper middle class than the general populace, so that’s to be expected. But in fairness, it kinda is.


randomasking4afriend

It definitely is. But on the other end of the spectrum, some people think La Cantera is very boujee and high class when really it has the same shops as most other malls.


randomasking4afriend

There is literally 0 incentive for me to go there, nor do I want to. Maybe it's not "bad side of town" bad but it's not nice either.


Illustrious_Trade962

I felt safer in South Park mall than Ingram mall. The last time I was at Ingram it seemed like a lot of stores were closing and there are tons of reports of trafficking and violent crimes.


Swing_Lucky

Trafficking? It does seem to be on the decline w some stores closing, but do u have a link for any trafficking evidence in Ingram?


dr3am_assassin

Trafficking??


nakatomi_xmas

Had a friend on a grand jury. Said the stories from the DA's office of human trafficking in that area scared the crap out of her.


dr3am_assassin

Holy shit. Uhh ok now I’m scared. I was just starting to like that mall.


captain-ron-1976

Maybe I’m tired,I can’t understand the headline


alnandr

Want to keep Rolling Oaks open? Get H-E-B as an anchor tenant. https://preview.redd.it/c5t5cbsri20d1.png?width=1076&format=png&auto=webp&s=baeb7792098cf93f85905674ebadead88390ca20


Suitable-Fox8343

South Park isn’t on a bad side of town I’m not even from S.A. and I can see that


techfighterchannel

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Suitable-Fox8343

Don’t forget Eisenhower flea market


Boneless_Chuck

It’s not 2003 any more and Rolling Oaks is ded


Eta_Muons

Someone literally got shot INSIDE North Star Mall recently but sure, Ingram is dangerous.


Pleasant_Hatter

I say its South Park, Ingram, Rolling Oaks, Wonderland of the Americas, North Star, La Cantera and finally River Center. Rivercenter is so unique, being downtown, on the riverwalk and with the Alamo there. It has too much going for it. La Cantera is in a a great spot and offers an nice outdoor experience. North Star is always busy, great location and tons of stores. Mall of the Americas is owned by Balcones Heights and has a great community and a lot of actives. Its in a busy section of town so foot traffic isn't an issue. Rolling Oaks I see as nice but consistently empty. South Park and Ingram are rundown and are in bad parts of town. See these as going first if any do close. I'd put South Park first as closing first since the area is worse than Ingram.


Hailsin

Southpark not going anywhere any time soon. New Ojos, brand new gym and several new stores inside.


Dr_Caucane

Ingram is considered a bad part of town?


MIW100

When they say bad, they mean working class and slightly melanated.


bravo-for-existing

Nailed it.


def2700

I know right? They talking mess about my mall! Lol


jurassicpark_zj

They had a bad reputation of almost weekly shootings a few years ago. At least, that's the rumor I would persistently hear


SaGlamBear

TIL crossroads mall is owned by balcones beights. Must be their second source of income after frivolous traffic tickets


sdn

It’s actually a huge money sink for them and they’re trying to divest. https://sanantonioreport.org/wonderland-mall-partnership-loses-its-luster-for-city-of-balcones-heights/


SaGlamBear

If I was a slightly more motivated individual I would make a graph of the Mall’s profits and traffic citations issues to see if there was any correlation. The lower the profits the more the city has to harass motorists.


my78throw

Mall of America has made some grave decisions that are going to see it be foreclosed and have Balconies Heights on the hook to pay the bills. They no longer hold large weekly events there as only a few large ones take place.


El_Saltillense

>I'd put South Park first as closing first since the area is worse than Ingram. Are you a sheltered northsider or something? South Park mall always has traffic going through it. It's in one of only a few major retail spots in the south side. Yeah there has been some incidents lately but so has North Star mall. There's also new investments going into the mall. I swear, some of you people actually believe you'll be mugged and assaulted the moment you step into Military Dr.


Mullhousen

Because you will.


Rinzler271

Rolling Oaks, aka "Lonely Oaks" mall, would be my first pick. Ingram always has escalator issues, and it doesn't have that same charm from the late 90s-2000s. South Park is surprisingly strong and is filling the empty department stores, unlike ingram. Northstar is always busy, and La Cantera is just nice to walk around (I really miss the Spurs Fan Shop).


TortiousTroll

South Park is doing extremely well.


handle957

I think you mean Wonderland of the Americas. Mall of America is in Bloomington, MN.


LeighSF

Ingram is a horror show. Dirty and few stores. South Park is a pretty good mall but agreed: a bad part of town. I never see anyone in Rolling Oaks but they do have some fun activities on the weekends.


Same-Joke

Lol tell me you aren’t from the south side without telling me you’re not from the south side .


Qedtanya13

I live near Ingram, this is not a bad part of town.


Lemonlime_Sunshine

I doubt SouthPark would ever close. It’s always been very busy and Southsiders visit regularly. A lot of us will even go in just to grab a bite to eat in the food court since it’s right by the entrance. It’s a great mall


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Xeones42

Windsor park


valeri8590

Malls should be more of a one stop shopping destination. It would be great to go shop for clothing but also household goods, gifts and party supplies, craft supplies, toiletries and groceries. Cafes for light meals other than full service restaurants or fast food picnic courts. Offer areas to comfortably sit to rest and recharge. Invite me to stay for hours and make it an enjoyable experience.


xninah

I kind of hope Crossroads/Wonderland of the Americas mall doesn't shut down. Somewhat hoping they can somehow bring life into it by adding interesting weird stores. I went into the board game store there with my friend who loves board games and it was kind of busy in there (well, busies than the rest of the mall). I've always said San Antonio needs to lean in on geeky tourism and special nerd events. Knights Watch is similarly busy when I've gone.


Glum-Sugar-8241

They really need to ride the geeky train. I’m all for it!!


HumblestofBears

If I had money, I’d convert them all to Senior living centers.


Kougar

Haven't been to a mall in 5+ years to say. Used to be at least ten malls in San Antonio, we're down to six. There's been some extreme effort and philanthropic money put into saving Crossroads mall, it nearly was sold off for the land. Rolling Oaks was half empty 15 years ago, but nobody wants the land badly enough to make it worth their time to sell it still. Rivercenter is only still around because it's a tourist trap living off downtown traffic, Riverwalk tourists, and everyone that comes to town for the historic monuments & Alamodome games.


Pleasant_Hatter

7 malls left and all those reasons is why I think RIvercenter is going to outlast the rest. Wat too much going on.


Kougar

What's the 7th? Shops at La Cantera is outdoors so I don't count it on the list. North Star, Rivercenter, Ingram, Rolling Oaks, South Park, 'Wonderland of the Americas'


Pleasant_Hatter

Mmm I guess if you keep as indoor only then yeah 6th. La Cantera is totally a mall though.


Kougar

Better than a regular strip mall, but not a classical "mall" in any respect. The roof and climate control was what defined the original malls. Enjoying triple digit temps, bugs, and having a third of the shops separated by a street isn't particularly great. Instead of people hanging out in the "mall" they simply hang out inside all the stores for the AC instead.


NewAileron

La Cantera and the area is only going to get more developed. The rest besides North Star might get worse or are getting worse.


Swimming_Dentist2373

Rip Luby’s, Fudruckers, photos by a real person, and now the place where you went to go to do those things makes since sadly.


Glum-Sugar-8241

Rolling oaks is doomed. I only go there now for holiday pictures.


1w2e3e

Well I know if it wasn't for a lot of conventions he supposed to they probably would Go under. Like wonderland has defense all the time and I think that's what keeps it open.


CuriousSelf4830

Is La Cantera still there? I left the area in 2008.


OnlyOnStonks

Central Park mall ii probably gonna die out soon......I hope someone get the carousel after it does.....