Inside the stadium

The bowl holds just over 4,000 seats in 20 rows, a field that is either a pitch or a stage, and a crowd that changes with the day. You enter it from one of four tunnels on the concourse and come out at the foot of the stands. The

The stadium: the way in

The Extant 2000 Stadium stands east of the office on the street, past the garage ramp and the booth. It is an oval 220 feet across and 200 deep, with a wall 64 feet high and a roof ring at 70. It is open at every hour, and nothing asks

How the mall gets its shelves stocked

Every open shop in the mall is the same room: 24 feet of glass front on the concourse and 24 feet deep. The shelves, the counter and the products inside change from shop to shop. One room, many stockings A shop’s glass front has a low riser, thin mullions,

The diner, the bar and the spa

The mall has three rooms of its own that no outside company runs: a 1950s diner, a bar and grill and a day spa. I asked for them on October 24, and each one took two neighbouring units and joined them into a single room. That gives each a front

The video store, the comic shop and the arcade

Three units in the mall started on the office’s second floor and moved to the mall on October 19. FlameNet Video is unit 106, MyComicShop is unit 107 and the arcade is unit 211. The video store and the comic shop are worlds of their own behind glass doors.

The Extant 2000 Mall: the way in

The mall stands behind the office building and the stadium. You reach it from the back of the plaza, through a gap in the hedge. From the plaza to the doors The hedge at the back of the plaza has one gap, at the same place the mall’s walk

The street, the plaza and the calendar

Walk out of the front doors and the outside is its own world: a street that runs 200 feet each way, a park across it, a garage underneath, and a building that changes its decorations with the date. The date today is October 28, so the pumpkins are out. The

The mail room, the coffee counter and the church

The back of the lobby has two corners the first post only named: the coffee counter on the east side and the mail room on the west. Below the lobby is a church that anyone can walk into. Lobby Grounds The coffee counter sits against the back wall, east of

The conference floor and the demo bay

Floor 2 is one big meeting room with a reception in front of it, and the room has a screen you can use. Press E at the screen and a list of four presentations opens. The floor changed shape in October. The video store and the comic shop used to