"The lengths you have to go to find a parking spot in this mall is ridiculous!"

Thanks!

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*promote

>> ^ReverendTed:

>> ^Lendl:
Confession: I have the biggest crush on Cobie Smulders.
That has got to be the most made-up-Canadian-girlfriend-sounding name I've heard this week.

"Oh, her name? Cuh...Cobie Smul...ders. Cobie Smulders. It's...French?"




http://videosift.com/video/Let-s-Go-To-The-Mall-Robin-Sparkles

Moses' French accent is pretty bad, but it's still understandable. The Irish dude has a pretty good French accent though. Having said that, this is coming from a Brit, so I'm not a native French speaker. At least to me the Irish guy sounded pretty good.>> ^lucky760:

I'm envious. I've always wished to be fluently multilingual.
I wonder how poor his accent is in all those other languages because his Vietnamese is pretty bad, not that I can hold that against him.

Anyone ever been to a chick-fil-a? You stand there looking at the menu and the realization sinks slowly in: ALL THE MENU ITEMS FEATURE THE SAME, SHITTY CHICKEN!! (that, delicious, "dipped in preservatives" flavor. )

Wonder how the place has lasted so long without indoor shopping malls

And now you know why they always set up their pranks in malls:

places full of simple, unassuming folks who have loooots of time to stand about waiting for something to happen a.k.a. Human Dodos
>> ^Fletch:

Hey, stranger... would you like to stand here and serve cake to people while I go somewhere else? Great!

Oh man I feel sorry for those guys. Probably never ridden an escalator in their lives prior to that mall.

>> ^braschlosan:

The mall is in Puente Hills http://www.yelp.com/biz/puente-hills-mall-la-puente


http://www.puentehills-mall.com/ for the official web site. I have been to this mall so many times!

The mall is in Puente Hills http://www.yelp.com/biz/puente-hills-mall-la-puente

Well it's technically assault on a minor. I'm sure if you pushed someone's kid down at the mall and they broke injured a wrist, you'd get arrested too.>> ^bareboards2:

Lose your job, sure, but get arrested? Really?

@bmacs27

No doubt, the best deals get done. The two I have in mind as examples are either under construction or fully built. When you have firm tenant commitments with specific requirements there is money out there that will back the project. In one case an institutional investor partnered with the developer to fund the project. In the other the developers got cash from just about everywhere and anywhere they could to meet the equity requirement.

What happened in my market is a "flight to quality" or "flight to safety". Basically tenants and developers stopped looking at the green belt (developing outer edges) and started looking at the strongest parts of the local market. That means the CBD and established communities. These deals are harder, but they are safer. Thus the "easy" deals in the developing (speculative) communities ended.

The idea that there are a bunch of empty shopping malls isn't really true. Vacancy rates spiked several years ago yes, but since then the amount of new space to market (supply) has dropped.


When I recently surveyed four communities in Central, IL (Bloomington/Normal, Springfield, Decatur, & Champaign/Urbana) I found that there is very little available retail space. Same goes for the Chicago Loop.

I agree we need infrastructure investment but we also need let the market dictate where new construction is going to take place because each market is different. Location location location. If the fundamentals make sense we need to build.

@kevingrr

I understand times are tight. That's bankers being responsible, whether voluntarily or at the government's request. They were broke and need to rein in the lending. Tighter standards means it's expected that projects once referred to as "good" are no longer viewed that way. It's tough, but you adapt. If everything is right with the deal, someone will finance. Where there is profit, there is a businessman.

I feel for the laid off construction workers, but frankly there was a bubble. We have HUGE housing developments that are sitting empty and going for 40k a house. We have a glut of empty shopping malls. We don't need more right now. If there is construction to be done right now I firmly believe it is public infrastructure investment we need. Rail, road, bridges, power, etc. That'll put people back to work.

Jamie Dimon has a good rolodex. In todays world, being a good banker means being a good insider trader, and lobbyist. I have about zero patience for their manipulation of our democracy let alone our markets.

"The following collection of 25 flyers produced by the FBI and the Department of Justice are distributed to local businesses in a variety of industries to promote suspicious activity reporting. The flyers are not released publicly, though several have been published in the past by news media and various law enforcement agencies around the country."

http://publicintelligence.net/fbi-suspicious-activity-reporting-flyers

Threat Areas
Airport Service Providers
Beauty/Drug Suppliers
Bulk Fuel Distributors
Construction Sites
Dive/Boat Shops
Electronics Stores
Farm Supply Stores
Financial Institutions
General Aviation
General Public
Hobby Shops
Home Improvement
Hotels/Motels
Internet Cafes
Shopping Malls
Martial Arts/Paintball
Mass Transportation
Military Surplus
Peroxide Explosives
Recognizing Sleepers
Rental Cars
Rental Properties
Rental Trucks
Storage Facilities
Tattoo Shops

[spoiler] 1st house/yellow/Norwegian/water/Dunhill/cat
2nd house/blue/Danish/tea/Blends/horses
3rd house/red/British/milk/Pall Mall/birds
4th house/green/-->GERMAN<--/coffee/prince/fish 5th house/white/Swedish/beer/Blue Master/dogs [/spoiler]

I could stand downtown town and two hours and never have a black person walk by.
Does this make it racist to be downtown?

On that same note, I could stand in a mall in Vancouver for quite some time before a white person walked by.
>> ^Lolthien:

This is a great sentiment, and more power to the guy. But I couldn't help but notice with the exception of a single woman in the first ten seconds. Every single person in this video was white.