A Five-Kind Taxonomy of Strip-Mall Trader Signage and Its Adoption as a Shopping-Centre Lease-Renewal Risk Score
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities sorts 1,142 strip-mall closed-today signs across 68 sites into a five-kind taxonomy --- personal, operational, seasonal, return-time overrun, and unstated --- and traces two of those kinds into a shopping-centre operator's lease-renewal risk score. An inter-rater ablation shows the taxonomy's reliability is unaffected by coder training, while the operator's post-adoption renewal-review flags concentrate almost entirely among the traders least able to contest an unstated or overrun classification.
| Authors | Ingrid Vasseur , Kwame Lindqvist , Anouk Mensah |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.i0l2it |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 2 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_i0l2it,
author = {Ingrid Vasseur and Kwame Lindqvist and Anouk Mensah},
title = {Closed Today, No Further Explanation: A Five-Kind Taxonomy of Strip-Mall Trader Signage and Its Adoption as a Shopping-Centre Lease-Renewal Risk Score},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.i0l2it},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-although-a-strip-mall-i0l2it/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}