In California, they’re building housing on dying shopping mall sites


Developers across the San Francisco Bay Area are targeting unlikely locations to build walkable new communities: shopping malls.

Shopping center operators are teaming up with real estate companies on redeveloping these sprawling suburban sites with housing, restaurants, offices, hotels and event space.

In the Bay Area, mixed-use residential communities have been proposed or approved at the Shops at Hilltop in Richmond, Newark’s NewPark Mall, Fremont’s The Hub, Westlake Shopping Center in Daly…

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