The Mid-Cities Mall is Manitowoc Wisconsin is dead and buried

 

Photos by Retiring Guy taken in Manitowoc WI

Headline:  The Hustle, 12/7/2023

We’ve been reading headlines about the death of the shopping mall for the better part of the last decade. 

But here we are in late 2023, and the malls are still standing. So what gives?

From Mall Closure Statistics. (6/23/2023)

• The number of malls declined 16.7% per year from 2017 to 2022. 
• 2 million square feet of mall space was demolished in 2022. 
• The nationwide mall vacancy rate is 107% higher than the overall average retail vacancy rate.

Related posts:

2023

"Malls aren't dead, they're in transition."  Tell that to Manitowoc, Wisconsin..  (11/29)

Mid-Cities Mall in Manitowoc Wisconsin missed the evolution.  (11/22)

Dear Manitowoc shopping mall aficionados, It';s too late baby!  Best, Retiring Guy.  (6/10)

Visit to the site of the former Mid-Cities Dead Mall in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.  (6/5)

2022

Malls in America: Everything's coming up roses.  (9/24)

2020

New Jersey news:  Phillipsburg Mall death watch.  (1/29)

Greetings from Trump's America: Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, where the mall has recently lost four anchor stores.  (1/28) 
Westgate UPDATE: Last nail to be hammered in April.  (1/11)

2018
Warren Mall losing the last of its original (1979) tenants.  (4/19)

2017
Get me rewrite: Natural gas odor forces evacuation of all 5 guests at the Shops of Grand Avenue.  (12/21)
Not a seagull to be seen at site of former deadest of dead malls.  (7/28)

GOP and abortion: Something to keep in mind when voting in 2024 (chapter 2)

 

Photo credits:  Sen. Mike Moon, Rep. Bob Titus

Headline:  Kansas City Star, 12/8/2023

The Republican-led bills come as abortion rights advocates in Missouri try to get a measure restoring some form of abortion on the state ballot in 2024. 

The legislation indicates that some Missouri Republicans are pushing forward on expanding the state’s near-total ban on abortion in the next legislative session even as the ban has been criticized for ushering in a chaotic and uncertain era for women and doctors. [emphasis added]

While Missouri remains staunchly conservative, abortion rights remain popular. Polling conducted last year by Saint Louis University and British pollster YouGov showed that a majority of Missourians were in favor of some level of legal abortion and disagreed with the state’s ban on abortion. 

Related post: 
Chapter 1:  Wisconsin.  (12/7/2023)

What happens when a MAGA election denier clown runs a state's Republican Party (Kristina Karamo of Michigan edition)

 

Headline:  Governing, 

Ronald Weiser made a fortune in real estate and has devoted vast sums to supporting the Michigan Republican Party. He served three separate terms as the state party chair and, in the 2022 midterm cycle, wrote checks to the party to the tune of $4.5 million. At this point, however, he’s cut the party off, angry about its devolution into election denialism. [emphasis added]

Losing a major donor is always a blow, but in Michigan it’s particularly bad news, since the party had grown almost wholly reliant on Weiser and the DeVos family (including former federal Education Secretary Betsy DeVos) for its funding. “These state parties are not getting contributions because the traditional big donors do not trust them with their money,” says Ray La Raja, an expert on political parties at the University of Massachusetts. “What you are seeing in some parties is a rejection of the MAGA brand by donors.”

Related posts:

Day 1119 of GOP election denial hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus),  (11/22/2023)

Day 1054.  (9/20/2023)

Dear Michigan GOP election deniers, Elections have consequences.  Best, Retiring Guy.  (11/21/2022)