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After the war, he designed the first suburban open-air shopping facility called Northland Mall near Detroit in 1954. After the success of the first project, he designed his best-known work for the owners of Dayton Department stores, the 800,000-square-foot (74,000 m 2 ) Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, the first enclosed shopping mall in the ...
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 zombie apocalyptic horror novel written by American author Max Brooks.The novel is broken into eight chapters: “Warnings”, “Blame”, “The Great Panic”, “Turning the Tide”, “Home Front USA”, “Around the World, and Above”, “Total War”, and “Good-Byes”, and features a collection of individual accounts told to ...
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 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]
Many of these vintage mall photos were taken in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. While some of the malls have since shuttered, downsized, or been converted, many of them still exist today.
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
After changing its name to Tween Brands in 2006 and shuttering or rebranding most locations a few years later, Blue Alliance acquired the name Limited Too and relaunched almost 200 stores in 2016.
Northland Center was an enclosed shopping mall on an approximately 159-acre (64 ha) site located near the intersection of M-10 (the John C. Lodge Freeway) and Greenfield Road in Southfield, Michigan, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Construction began in 1952 and the mall opened on March 22, 1954.