Lots of retail square footage available after the closing of the Boston Store in 2018 and Sears in 2020. These two anchor location remain vacant.
Top headline and photo: Wisconsin State Journal, 10/14/2025
Bottom photo by Retiring Guy
Bottom headline: Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/18/2025
Royce Podeszwa reports:
Willie Gonwa is the director for civil and architectural engineering and construction management at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He told “Wisconsin Today” the closest comparison to the data center boom would be the shopping mall craze of the 1970s and 80s — but even that doesn’t match this moment. [emphasis added]
“Everything else in the construction industry is slowing down,” Gonwa said. “Residential apartment buildings are slowing down, a lot of the office buildings are rising in default rates, which are slowing things down. The only thing that is booming, that is really going on right now, is these data centers.”
What will happen to these data center 30, 40, 50 years from now. Will they sit empty, a shell of their former selves, and be allowed to crumble until they are finally razed? That was the fate of the Mid-Cities dead mall in Manitowoc, Wisconsin?
Photos by Retiring Guy
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Dear Willie Gonwa, You might want to rethink that data centers/shopping malls analogy. Best, Retiring Guy. (11/19/2025)
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