Retrofitting High Point: a hometown dream

I grew up going to school across the street from my hometown mall. As I grew up, I watched this mall die a slow, painful death. The Dillard's clearance store is the only thing still hanging on This is also where I learned to drive a car thanks to the massive loop around the complex - a fun side fact. . High Point University, which is slowly taking over the whole town of High Point, bought this entire property a few years back but have yet to procure the funds to make anything of it. So here it stands, an image of dead suburbia just begging for a massive retrofit. 

In my dream world, this site could be massively reworked to bring about a whole new type of economy to my city as there's so much empty blacktop space to run with. But I know that someday down the line, this will either turn into residential or athletic complexes relegated to the university life instead of new life for the town of High Point. This isn't perhaps the worst thing that could happen, but as someone who grew up right across the street from this place, I'd love to see it become something beautiful one day.