quote:
(Virtually) Public Parking from the standpoint of enforcement.
If you have a knickknack shop in a strip center and there are 2 spaces designated out front for your store, you can clearly see if the people parked in your spaces are in your store.
The mall has thousands of parking spaces, for multiple stores.
1) It is beyond enforcement capability
2) Nobody goes to the mall to shop anyway. This is efficient use of an existing surplus.
Seems like tho old owner of the Skagg's parking lot could enforce a pretty big parking lot. A spotter would just watch the people parking there and if they didn't go in to a business around there, they would have them towed... so, they would just need to watch the people parking there and if they got in a bus instead of heading into the mall, BAM! towed, and half-the-cost in kickback to the mall owner like the Skaggs guy did with A1 towing (allegedly)