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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 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]
Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum[1] (July 18, 1903 – February 14, 1980), was an Austrian-American architect best known as a pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States. [2] He is also noted for his urban revitalization proposals, described in his writings and applied in master plans such as for Fort Worth ...
The history of retail encompasses the sale of goods and services to consumers across all cultures and time periods from ancient history to the present. [1] Commerce first took the form of bargaining between early human civilizations. Beginning with Middle Eastern towns in the 7th millennium BCE, retail markets emerged when civilizations created ...
Southdale Center. Southdale Center is a shopping mall located in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities. It opened in 1956 and is the first [3] fully enclosed, climate-controlled [4] shopping mall in the United States. [5] Southdale Center has 1,297,608 square feet (120,551.7 m 2; 29.7890 acres; 12.05517 ha) of leasable retail space, and ...
Starting in 1946, larger, open air centers anchored by department stores were built (sometimes as a collection of adjacent retail properties with different owners), then enclosed shopping malls starting with Victor Gruen 's Southdale Center near Minneapolis in 1956. A shopping mall is a type of shopping center, a North American term originally ...
Northland Center. 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.
Eastwood Mall – Birmingham (1960–2006) Florence Mall – Florence (1978–present) Gadsden Mall – Gadsden (1974–present) Heart of Huntsville Mall – Huntsville (1961–2007) Jasper Mall – Jasper (1981–present) Madison Square Mall – Huntsville (1984–2017) The Mall at Westlake – Bessemer (1969–2009)
February 20, 1975. The Westminster Arcade (also known as the Providence Arcade, Arcade Providence, or The Arcade) is an historic shopping center at 130 Westminster Street and 65 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island erected in 1828. It is notable as the first enclosed shopping mall in the United States [3] and has been lauded as ...