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Thanks, Messy, I pray every day for him. Thanks for the link... I'll check it out.

Risk.

When they grow up and reject the God you love.

The OP wanted to know a good use for a dead mall. It was not stipulated that it must be financially viable, realistic, or whether it makes sense. And what insult? Politicians and businessmen are money-oriented, and I've never seen two men discuss dead malls so much in my life. I'm trying to...

The question is what to do with them, not where is the money coming from. There are endless possibilities. Of COURSE someone would need to fund the good that can come from it. There are non-profits, government funding contracts, donors. Interesting how the concern turned to money though...

I put these in here in the wrong order. Sorry. I had mentioned repurposing a mall by using the mall as something else and you said it would not be a repurposed mall. A good use is not always financially viable. There is other "good" in the world besides money and financial gain. A hostel...

The question is "what's a good use with dead malls." It does not say it can't or can be repurposed. A good use? I've listed a whole whack of them, along with Jazzy and Messy. "A good use" doesn't ask "a financially viable use." If I was a mall owner, location would absolutely matter. If it's...

Turning a mall into something else IS repurposing the mall. Take a pair of jeans, cut off the legs and do some alterations and it is no longer a pair of jeans, but now a purse. The purse is repurposed jeans. Mall buildings do not have to still just be retail. The building can be renovated and...

I don't think anyone suggested 80 of the same thing. Where I live, we have a massive office building with a lot of little offices that anyone can rent. A psychologist might be next door to an accountant who might be next door to a computer geek, and so on. Self-employed people who can't or don't...

Housing. Medical hubs. Government processing (passports, applications and information for seniors, housing, employment insurance, taxes, business licensing, etc). Small business offices/shared space for those who don't want to work from home. Small-class community college or school. Install...

I've had so many incredibly painful seasons, but three stand out as the worst: when my beloved died, when my friends and family betrayed me, and the years my son was so sick in his teens and early 20s. I could not cope with the first; I wanted more than anything to go crazy so I would not have...

I have an orange monkey with floppy legs and arms and a creepy plastic face with plastic ears that stick out. My great granny gave it to me when I was four months old (I'm 58). I teethed on its plastic ears. I had it displayed in a cabinet when a census taker came and she recognized it as an...

Finding a partner who simply accepts, loves and respects me for me, who chooses to spend time with me because he wants to and enjoys my company, someone who pursues me, who is my best friend, gets social with me outside my house and doesn't just sit at coffee shops without engaging or saying...

Is he off topic or code?

Thanks, Messy.

MC, do you have a link? I can't find where to vote. Never mind. Found it and voted.

Where's the button to vote? I can't see how.

When I had to leave my hometown, my parents decided I was incapable of being a good student and a good mom at the same time. They threatened to sue for custody of my son. Huge, resounding NOPE. I proved them wrong. I was good at both. But dang that was a solid and powerful "no."

I guess this is why, at least in part and for some people, that it's better to pray in private rather than like the Pharisees on the streets. I very rarely pray out loud with others, but I do think it's important to point others to Jesus. People are fallible. Jesus is not.

I started charging room and board from my son when he turned 19 (age of majority where I live). It barely covered his food and his share of the bills, and then he could save the rest to put towards a place when he was ready. Throughout his teen years, I contributed to the male version of a "hope...