{"id":122800,"date":"2021-01-04T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/01\/fortnite_creator_epic_games_is_turning_a_dying_shopping_mall_into_its_new_hq"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:45:00","slug":"fortnite-creator-epic-games-is-turning-a-dying-shopping-mall-into-its-new-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/fortnite-creator-epic-games-is-turning-a-dying-shopping-mall-into-its-new-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Creator Epic Games Is Turning A Dying Shopping Mall Into Its New HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/779e8fcf0d1cd\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/779e8fcf0d1cd\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/779e8fcf0d1cd\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Epic Games, creator of the massively popular <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong>, is buying up a 980,000-square-foot site as its new headquarters, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-04-epic-games-buys-shopping-mall-to-convert-into-new-headquarters\">Eurogamer<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The company \u2013 which is also responsible for the Unreal Engine \u2013 will purchase the ailing Cary Towne Center shopping mall, which is close to Epic&#8217;s current home in Cary, North Carolina. The new &#8216;home campus&#8217; will open in 2024, and the company has said that some of the site will be made available for use by the local community.<\/p>\n<p>The mall has been struggling for some time and was <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/triangle\/news\/2019\/02\/01\/strugglingcary-towne-center-sold.html\">sold to new owners in 2019<\/a>. Last year, its new owners <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/developer-plans-mix-of-offices-stores-residences-on-former-cary-towne-center-site\/19317402\/\">proposed a mix of offices, shops and homes<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The Cary Towne Center is <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/deadmalls\/search?q=cary&amp;restrict_sr=on&amp;sort=relevance&amp;t=all\">almost entirely empty<\/a> at the moment, with just a few stores open and part of the complexed complete closed to the public. This <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/daT9gXO\">gallery of images<\/a> from a year ago gives you some indication of its current status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games, creator of the massively popular Fortnite, is buying up a 980,000-square-foot site as its new headquarters, Eurogamer is reporting. The company \u2013 which is also responsible for the Unreal Engine \u2013 will purchase the ailing Cary Towne Center shopping mall, which is close to Epic&#8217;s current home in Cary, North Carolina. The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}