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The mall was commercially successful, but the original design was never fully realized, as the intended apartment buildings, schools, medical facilities, park and lake were not built. Because he invented the modern mall, Malcolm Gladwell, writing in The New Yorker, suggested that "Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect ...
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]
First enclosed shopping center/mall other than arcades 1956 Southdale Center: Edina, MN near Minneapolis, US Second enclosed shopping center/mall other than arcades 1986 West Edmonton Mall: Edmonton, Canada Largest mall in the world 1986–2004 1992 Mall of America: Bloomington, MN near Minneapolis, US Largest mall in the U.S. since 1992 2005
Shopping mall in Warsaw, Poland. In the post-war period, an American architect, Victor Gruen developed a concept for a shopping mall; a planned, self-contained shopping complex complete with an indoor plaza, statues, planting schemes, piped music, and car parking. Gruen's vision was to create a shopping atmosphere where people felt so ...
The mall continued to thrive until 1991 when Charlestowne Mall opened nearby attracting shoppers away from the St. Charles Mall. [1] [4] Charlestowne Mall offered something to customers that St. Charles Mall didn't have and that is 2 floors of shopping area and over 100 stores. On the final day of the mall staying open only 1 tenant remained ...
The Country Club Plaza (often called The Plaza) is a privately owned regional [1] shopping center in the Country Club District of Kansas City, Missouri.Opened in 1923, it is considered to be the first planned large outdoor suburban shopping center in the United States and among the first regional centers to accommodate shoppers arriving by car.
The Bergen Mall, which was fully enclosed in 1973, was first planned in 1955 by Allied Stores to have 100 stores and 8,600 parking spaces in a 1.5 million square feet (140 × 10 ^ 3 m 2) mall that would include a 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m 2) Stern's store and two other 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m 2) department stores as part of the initial design ...
During World War II, the temporary buildings clustered near 7th Street on the south edge of the Mall were Buildings D, E, R, and S. Additionally, Buildings T and U were built near 14th Street on the north side of the Mall. [9] After World War II, Buildings E and R were occupied by the Veterans Administration, and Building S by the Department of ...