Your Next Office in the Mall

by

Donald Wickelgren

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Sep 18, 2020

Healthcare

The mall is dead. Long live the mall. Creative destruction in business creates opportunities for alternatives. Logistics, Amazon in the mall, sure, why not?

Did you ever think maybe your medical office could do well in the mall? I don't know whether this will really be a thing, but imagine a cluster of medical offices and dental offices all around the mall. There's a network effect in business where there is a clustering of similar businesses, like the medical plaza. I wonder if the mall would work for medicine.

Reference: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/18/business/malls-repurpose-empty-stores/index.html

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Donald Wickelgren

Don Wicklegren is Xilium's founder. He is a technologist by profession who started his career pre-internet in remote medical technology and learning. He has worked in both small and large corporations with world-wide remote staff and became a part of the team who developed the first commercial internet. As an entrepreneur, he started his first technology company in 2001. In Xilium, he focuses on innovating solutions for the US healthcare system.

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