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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]
Until the mid-1970s, his office designed over fifty shopping malls in the United States. [11] Gruen was the principal architect for a luxury housing development built on the 48-acre (190,000 m 2) site of Boston, Massachusetts' former West End neighborhood. The first of several Gruen towers and plazas was completed in 1962.
First shopping center with more than 1 major chain supermarket 1930** Suburban Square: Ardmore, PA, near Philadelphia, US First shopping center with a department store 1947 Broadway-Crenshaw Center: Los Angeles, CA, US First regional shopping center* with department store(s) 1954 Valley Fair Mall: Appleton, WI near Green Bay, US
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 ...
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.
Oak Park Mall – Overland Park (1974–present; largest mall in Kansas and the Kansas City Metropolitan Area) Town Center Plaza – Leawood (1996–present; outdoor mall; former home of the only Jacobson's department store in both Kansas City and the state of Kansas) Towne East Square – Wichita (1975–present)
This Week In History: Northland Shopping Center, the first large shopping mall in Columbus, opened in 1964.
Shopping malls established in the 20th century (72 C, 3 P) Shopping malls established in the 21st century (24 C) S. Shopping malls established in 1774 (1 P)