{"id":409092,"date":"2010-03-09T19:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-09-clevelands-galleria-mall-turns-lost-retail-space-into\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T19:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:22:05","slug":"a-cleveland-mall-turns-lost-retail-space-into-farm-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409092","title":{"rendered":"A Cleveland mall turns lost retail space into farm stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Fast Company <\/p>\n<p>Photo: Fast CompanyShopping malls, those bastions of American consumerism, have not been immune to the recent economic downturn. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1557242\/dead-malls\">recent piece<\/a> by our own Greg Lindsay, we looked at the impending decline of the<br \/>\nmall, which is part of the &#8220;single-use environment&#8221; category of real<br \/>\nestate development that will slowly disappear over the next thirty<br \/>\nyears, according to one developer. But what will replace these<br \/>\nenvironments, and more importantly, what will happen to the massive<br \/>\nmalls of today?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>One possible solution can be seen in Cleveland&#8217;s Galleria mall. The<br \/>\nmall lost many of its retail shops over the past few years, leaving<br \/>\ngaping holes in the greenhouse-like space. So employees of the Galleria<br \/>\ncame up with the idea for the Gardens Under Glass project, a so-called<br \/>\nurban ecovillage inside the mall that features carts of fruits and<br \/>\nvegetables grown on-site. The project was recently given a $30,000<br \/>\nstart-up grant from Cleveland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicinnovationlab.org\/\" >Civic Innovation Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Get the rest of the story from our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1575650\/cleveland-mall-gets-a-new-life-as-a-giant-greenhouse\">Fast Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-10-garden-girl-tv-indoor-gardening-part-four\/\">Garden Girl TV: Raised beds in the city<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-05-demolishing-density-in-detroit\/\">Demolishing density in Detroit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-05-garden-girl-tv-indoor-gardening-part-four\/\">Garden Girl TV: indoor gardening, part four<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=5c91f78186edf69d2ede06300ea056fa&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=5c91f78186edf69d2ede06300ea056fa&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Fast Company Photo: Fast CompanyShopping malls, those bastions of American consumerism, have not been immune to the recent economic downturn. In a recent piece by our own Greg Lindsay, we looked at the impending decline of the mall, which is part of the &#8220;single-use environment&#8221; category of real estate development that will slowly disappear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}