Nobody is converting suburban shopping malls into appartments.
The Arcade is a special case, because it's actually a central-city mall, located right in the heart of the city, near a bunch of other apartment and office buildings. It's basically the complete opposite of your typical suburban mall, miles from anywhere, surrounded by way too many parking lots.
The other examples this video briefly touches on are something completely different, and far more interesting. These aren't simple conversions of shopping mall interiors, they are projects that are tearing down large chunks of existing suburban shopping malls (and their parking lots) and attempting to re-invent them as a town centre, with added outdoor shopping, high-density housing (brand new apartment buildings), parks and office space.
It's far more than just converting malls into housing. It's an attempt at a completely new approach.
The dead or mostly dead malls around where I live don't seem very attractive for housing or mixed residential/retail. They'd still be very car-centric, aren't in especially upscale areas, and I'm not sure how much you'd actually want to preserve.
The closest I'm specifically aware of in the US in Santana Row in the South Bay but that's not really residential (maybe there's some but I'm only aware of the hotels)--and, while there are a fair number of restaurant options--you don't really have groceries or other retail that people would want on a day to day basis AFAIK.
The Arcade is a special case, because it's actually a central-city mall, located right in the heart of the city, near a bunch of other apartment and office buildings. It's basically the complete opposite of your typical suburban mall, miles from anywhere, surrounded by way too many parking lots.
The other examples this video briefly touches on are something completely different, and far more interesting. These aren't simple conversions of shopping mall interiors, they are projects that are tearing down large chunks of existing suburban shopping malls (and their parking lots) and attempting to re-invent them as a town centre, with added outdoor shopping, high-density housing (brand new apartment buildings), parks and office space.
It's far more than just converting malls into housing. It's an attempt at a completely new approach.