You've made your point by listing some of the good ones, a fact that I acknowledged in my first response. But you cost yourself a whole lot of credibility by taking aim at a mall, and a situation, where the end result was a win for everyone, including the people who lived in the neighborhood.
Speaking of the flavors that the old warehouses and factories have, I'm wondering how interested you'd be in this factory that was one of the largest employers in my home town until a few years ago. Nice riverfront property, over a quarter-mile of street frontage, two stories, good, solid brick structure that looked like a factory, plenty of parking. My old home town is a mecca for tourists, anyway, and the nearest outlet mall is twenty miles or so away, in another tourist community.
You missed your chance; they've leveled most of the place.
P.S. I mentioned the "flavor": this was a tannery.
Having gone through all of that, we often travel looking for names and places that are familiar, so we know what to expect. There is still plenty of opportunity for adventure with the unexpected and the unfamiliar, and I've never been anyplace that completely reminds me of any other place.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
