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The term mall originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, it began to be used as a generic term for the large enclosed shopping centers that were becoming increasingly commonplace. [1] [2] In the United Kingdom and other countries, shopping malls may be called shopping centres.
[57] [58] For pioneering the soon-to-be enormously popular mall concept in this form, Gruen has been called the "most influential architect of the twentieth century" by Malcolm Gladwell. [59] The first retail complex to be promoted as a "mall" was Paramus, New Jersey's Bergen Mall. The center, which opened with an open-air format in 1957, was ...
The Nebraska Crossing Outlets Mall (Gretna, Nebraska, 2004). An outlet store, factory outlet or factory store is a brick and mortar or online store where manufacturers sell their merchandise directly to the public.
When the Mall of America first opened in August of 1992, it was called "The Mall That Ate Minnesota," by the New York Times. The "78-acre full-sensory smorgasbord of consumerism," as Neal Karlen ...
The National Mall, an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C. The Mall, Armagh, a cricket ground in Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK; The Mall, London, the landmark ceremonial approach road to Buckingham Palace, City of Westminster, Central London; Pall Mall, London, is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster ...
The mall as a retail concept is alive and well, with retailers pivoting to fit the demands of a digital age. Rather than jostling with brick-and-mortar stores for supremacy, each shopping format ...
The country's largest mall, the Mall of America, first opened to the public in August 1992. This photo was taken the same month and shows a group of shoppers around a mall kiosk selling t-shirts ...
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.