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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]
Bailian Xijiao Shopping Mall in Shanghai, at 109,000 square metres (1,170,000 sq ft) [16] a super-regional shopping mall [14 Main article: City centre A superregional-scale center is commonly called a city centre.
Headquarters of ICSC at 1251 Avenue of the Americas (north skyscraper) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States.. The International Council of Shopping Centers, doing business as ICSC, is the global trade association of what it calls the "Marketplaces Industry" (i.e., shopping centers, shopping malls, and all other retail real estate).
The International Council of Shopping Centers makes the presence of anchors one of the main defining characteristics of the two largest categories of centres, the regional center with 400,000 to 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) in gross leasable area, and the superregional center with more than 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) of space.
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.
Examples: La Mirada Mall and La Habra Fashion Square in Southern California; and Seven Corners Shopping Center in suburban Washington, D.C. Seven Corners, once anchored by department stores Garfinckel's and Woodward & Lothrop, was an indoor mall with an adjacent strip-style convenience center. The indoor portion was torn down and replaced with ...
The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes, a lifestyle center in Maple Grove, Minnesota The Shops at Friendly Center, a lifestyle center in Greensboro, North Carolina. A lifestyle center (American English), or lifestyle centre (Commonwealth English), is an open-air shopping center which aims to create a "pedestrian-friendly, town-like atmosphere with sidewalks, landscaping, ambient lighting, and park benches ...
Manufaktura, a retail park and lifestyle centre in Łódź, Poland. A retail park is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom and other European countries.