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A shopping mall is a type of shopping center, a North American term originally meaning a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s began to be used as a generic term for large shopping centers anchored by department stores, especially enclosed centers.
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]
A shopping centre that in Europe is considered a retail park might fall into one of several categories in North American industry terms: [12] Power centers : Even larger centers of 250,000 to 600,000 square feet (23,000 to 56,000 m 2 ) are considered power centers , typically anchored by category-killer big box stores (e.g. Best Buy ) incl ...
Shopping hubs, or shopping centers, are collections of stores; that is a grouping of several businesses in a compact geographic area. It consists of a collection of retail, entertainment and service stores designed to serve products and services to the surrounding region.
The Mall, or the Esplanade of the European Parliament, Brussels; The Mall (Cleveland), a 1903 long public park in down-town Cleveland, Ohio The Mall, Kanpur, the central business district of the city Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Plans for the Fancher Creek shopping center in southeast Fresno were first proposed in 2000. And now, 24 years later, the walls of the first two stores are finally going up.
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.
Community shopping centers are defined by the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) as shopping centers with a gross leasable area of 125,000 to 400,000 square feet (11,600 to 37,200 m 2) (U.S.) 100,000 to 400,000 square feet (9,300 to 37,200 m 2) (Canada) with general merchandise or convenience- oriented offerings.