Southcenter was busy enough on this visit for traffic to be backed up entering and leaving the mall, a rare sight in the 2020s! Or maybe people were just endlessly circling the parking lot to look for an open space. There are still a few malls around here that occasionally draw enough people to create a traffic jam, something I imagine was once a lot more common.
Traffic jams around my local mall are very rare now, they didn't exist even around Christmastime when I went there this past year! Then again, I didn't go to the mall around Christmas Eve or the day before that, but still. I don't think it has looked like this since maybe the very early 2010s!
ReplyDeleteSometimes the parking lot looks better than the architecture of the buildings and this might be one of those cases since there are some sedans, and ones with actual color, to distract us from the brutalist JCPenney! I've somewhat consigned myself to the fact that if I buy a new car this year, it'll likely have to be grey or silver. The trim level of the 2026 Altima SV that I've been looking at only comes in white, black, grey, silver, and red, but I believe it is the same red as what is on that Sentra in the handicapped spot.
Speaking of Altimas, I never realized before seeing this photo that the side greenhouse of that blue Genesis sedan in the photo is almost identical in design as the side greenhouse on my 2016 Nissan Altima! Huh, that's strange for two cars from completely different companies! I wonder if they had the same designer or something, or maybe if Hyundai-Genesis were stealing designs from Nissan! Of course, while the greenhouse design is the same, the Genesis here doesn't quite have the Coke bottle design of the 2016 Altima on the fenders. That might be a good or bad thing depending on who you ask!