Beijing tried this with a dead mall across the street from Microsoft Beijing. It felt like a dank place to run a business though. This isn’t the only one, Chinese cities have made a huge effort in trying to turn ghost malls into incubators so much that it has become cliche.

Google is currently converting the Westside Pavilion mall in west LA into office space. It doesn’t look that bad from what I’ve seen, but the lack of natural light would bother me.