In Southern Europe except for two months out of the year nice weather is almost a guarantee so easy to plan for. Northern Europe only a few months out of the year the weather isn’t piss poor so it’s easy to heat buildings and plan for snow infrastructure.

UK/Ireland is a rare exception due to it’s geography location being close to the Atlantic for warmth (Especially Ireland which hardly ever has sub-freezing weather) but also close to the inland for some extremes that give you a taste of either warm or cold humid or dry. Take your pick.

Neither extremes last for very long in the UK/Ireland for the most part with rare exceptions

Bend Oregon in Central Oregon the high desert torn down it’s mall in the early Obama era to be more *Trendy* which they assumed everyone would go to The Mill District which is all high end trendy shops for people with I-macs and I-phones not afraid in the slightest to do magic tricks on their wallet.

Bend Oregon is an ASININE place to put an outdoor mall they are warm to hot in the summer but the winters are brutal cold mostly at night down in the high teens on the (F) temp scale.

(It doesn’t snow as much as you think it would) but they do get it at times.

I feel sorry for shoppers at Christmas even bundled up if it’s windy BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

One the cost of each individual store heating/cooling goes WAY up since now they have to often heat a larger space with exterior doors constantly opening and closing making the stores exposed to the elements both hot and cold.

Two. A LOT of driving around. The worst design is the Keizer Station in Oregon but one place the ZCMI mall in Utah was torn down and converted to an outdoor use which is asinine giving Utah’s extreme climates.

Keizer station which is a weird figure 8 which one figure goes under the other one and unless you live there where you go to it all the time you never know which road you’ll wind up on so it wastes more gas and if you believe in it causes more global warming then having a mall does.

Counter productive.
At least malls you park your damn car in one spot often with security cameras if it has a garage and you walk the rest of the time and they are only heating one building/unit.

Oh yes! My first time at both Westfield locations was the same overwhelming experience! So many stores, so little time!