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Grímsbær (front view) Grímsbær (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈkrimsˌpaiːr̥]) is a small shopping centre in the middle of Reykjavík, Iceland.. Originally a two-story structure built into a hillside, in 2004 a third floor was built on top of the existing structure and the centre grew to around 2000 m 2, which it remains to this day.
The Park & Shop in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C. (1930) is one of the earliest examples of a small center with dedicated on-site parking in front. Before the 1930s, there were only a few examples of this type of shopping center, typically built as part of new, planned, upscale residential developments.
A notable example is the Halton Lea Shopping Centre (originally known as Shopping City) in Runcorn, which opened in 1972 and was conceived as the centre point for the new town's development. Another early example is the Brent Cross Centre , Britain's first out-of-town shopping centre and located on the northern outskirts of London , which was ...
The complex also is planned to have an array of other retailers, green space and an 8-acre lake, access to the Raccoon River Valley Trail, a playground, an amphitheater and an ice-skating rink.
An example of a small strip mall in Onalaska, Wisconsin. A strip mall, strip center, strip plaza or simply plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America and Australia where the stores are arranged in a row, with a footpath in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front.
The International Council of Shopping Centers, based in New York City, classifies two types of shopping centers as malls: regional malls and superregional malls.A regional mall, per the International Council of Shopping Centers, is a shopping mall with 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m 2) to 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m 2) gross leasable area with at least two anchor stores. [8]
Howard Troller, the Mall's landscape architect, designed a pedestrian bridge over Temple Street to connect the North and South malls, and for aesthetics, included a taper like a ship's keel into the bottom of the bridge, and asked artist Tom Van Sant to contribute further; Van Sant designed curving steps up from the street as well as the handrails on the bridge.
A retail park is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom and other European countries. They form a key aspect of European retail geographies, alongside indoor shopping centres , standalone stores like hypermarkets and more traditional high streets .