A strip mall lot built for 200 cars sits nearly empty most of the day, and economists find America’s surplus parking now costs over a trillion dollars yearly

A single sedan sits alone near the entrance of a strip mall lot built for two hundred cars.Behind it stretch rows of empty white…

Empty parking spots stretch across a nearly vacant suburban lot, strip mall
Society · Hugo Rojas · October 21, 2026
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