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Stamford Town Center is an urban shopping mall located in Downtown Stamford, Connecticut. The 761,000-square-foot (70,700 m 2 ) mall is the eighth largest in Connecticut, with space for about 130 stores and restaurants.
Downtown Stamford, or Stamford Downtown, is the central business district of the city of Stamford, Connecticut, United States.It includes major retail establishments, a shopping mall, a university campus, the headquarters of major corporations and Fortune 500 companies, as well as other retail businesses, hotels, restaurants, offices, entertainment venues and high-rise apartment buildings.
Inner zone trains usually originate here and run local all the way to Grand Central. Passengers transferring between zones can make cross-platform interchanges in Stamford. In the 2000s, Stamford and Greenwich received increasing numbers of reverse commuters who work in Stamford but live in New York City. Reverse commuting doubled from 1997 to ...
Ridgeway Shopping Center is a 365,411 sq ft (33,947.8 m 2) [1] shopping center in Stamford, Connecticut, now classifying as a power center but when first opened in 1947, the first department store-anchored suburban shopping center in the Eastern United States. [2] [3]
Stamford was known as Rippowam by the Siwanoy Native American inhabitants of the region, and the very first European settlers in the area also called it that. The present name is after the town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. [10] The deed to Stamford was signed on July 1, 1640, between Captain Turner of the New Haven Colony and Chief Ponus ...
The Stamford Town Center shopping mall, which was built by F.D. Rich and Taubman Centers, was opened in 1982. Other major buildings completed by F.D. Rich during the 1980s included 4 Stamford Forum (designed by César Pelli), 6 Stamford Forum (designed by Arthur Erickson), and 8 Stamford Forum (designed by Hugh Stubbins). [32]
Old North Stamford Road at Rippowam River in northern Stamford [31]: 2 41°06′54″N 73°32′42″W / 41.115°N 73.545°W / 41.115; -73.545 ( Turn-of-River A lenticular pony truss bridge built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in 1892, using a design patented by William O. Douglas in 1878 for a lens-type truss bridge .
An earlier Stamford Town Hall had been constructed in 1871 and destroyed in a fire in 1904. [8] To replace it, the City of Stamford (which then had about 19,000 inhabitants) commissioned a new town hall, designed by architects Edgar Josselyn and Nathan Mellen. [8] Designed in 1905, [2] the building opened in 1906. [3]