American Dream Miami mega mall aims to defy grim fate of others
You can find them by the grim score on the Internet, photos of broken, abandoned shopping malls: trees growing up through cracks in the floor, toppled ceiling panels scattered like shattered teeth, empty and unlit corridors stretching out to nowhere.
“The pictures are pretty horrifying, and they tell a true story,” says urban planning and economics consultant Christopher Zahas. “Shopping malls are on the decline.”
Which raises the question: Why would anybody want to build a new 200-acre, $4 billion mall on the western edge of Miami-Dade County?
Triple Five, the multinational conglomerate that earlier this week announced plans to build the massive complex it calls American Dream Miami at the intersection of Florida’s Turnpike and Interstate 75 near Miami Lakes, isn’t talking.
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