There may always be a desire to go to a specific physical location to shop, but it will be the exception, not the norm. People will go for the experience, not convenience. Convenience comes with a mouse click. Dick Darling, developer of the new Soledad Entertainment Center, isn't building an Edwards cineplex in Canyon Country because he thinks it would be nice for people in Canyon Country to have a movie theater. It's a lure.
Darling sees the handwriting on the wall.
So does Newhall Land. They're building Town Center Drive as an old-fashioned Main Street because Main Streets are in right now. If strip malls were in they'd be building a strip mall. If box stores were in they'd be building box stores. But they used to be.