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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 super regional 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]
More recent shopping dedicated areas outside the main centre are known as "shopping centres" (with understanding of the synonym shopping mall) "shopping villages" or "retail parks". According to author Richard Longstreth, before the 1920s–1930s, the term "shopping center" in the U.S. was loosely applied to any group of adjacent retail businesses.
In shopping mall design, the Gruen transfer (also known as the Gruen effect) is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original intentions, making them more susceptible to making impulse buys.
A redevelopment plan for a Murrells Inlet mall could bring massive changes to the Myrtle Beach, SC area. The Inlet Square Mall will be turned from a 500,000-square-foot enclosed mall to a 250,000 ...
[9] [10] The initial plans for the redevelopment project would keep the three anchor stores but would demolish the remainder of the mall and replace it with an outdoor shopping and dining area. The plans also included the construction two four-story apartment buildings with a total of 365 units between them. [11]
Emporium Mall is a thirteen-story building including nearly three-story parking ramps underneath the mall, with capacity to hold 2000 cars. Emporium Mall has an area of 2,700,000 sq ft (250,000 m 2), about three-fifths as big as The Mall of America, or about half as big as Vatican City. The mall is nearly symmetric, with a rectangular floor ...
Stratford Square Mall was a shopping mall that opened on March 9, 1981, in Bloomingdale, Illinois, a northwestern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, United States.Originally owned by Urban Retail Properties Co., the 1,300,000-square-foot (120,000 m 2) indoor shopping mall was designed by RTKL Associates, and built [3] by Graycor of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.