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Minnesota's SHOPPES AT ARBOR LAKES lifestyle center typifies the genre with its lush landscaping, toney tenants and trendy architecture. Photo from Wikipedia / "MgWiki"In a nutshell, the quaint and...
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In a contemporary site plan of Memphis' THE SHOPS OF SADDLE CREEK, one sees the typical layout of a lifestyle-type complex. Inline stores are small (in the 1,000 to 7,000 square foot range). The entire...
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As previously mentioned, the standard American mall went through various changes during the 1980s...with a shift toward more upscale tenantry. As some malls began to decline in the 1990s, a new...
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After some 20 years of overdevelopment and market saturation, "Grade C" and "D" shopping malls in America were dead and dying. By the late 1990s, demolition crews -ripping down once-vibrant centers of...
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During the 1970s and '80s, America was in a full-throttle shopping mall building boom, with new retail square footage peaking in 1985. However, between 1989 and 1993, shopping center construction...
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The Finish Line chain originated, in 1976, with a francised Athlete's Foot store in Downtown Indianapolis. In 1981, the first Finish Line locations were established. Today, the Indy-based retailer...
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The very first Sunglass Hut, a kiosk-type store, was located in Miami-Dade's DADELAND MALL and began business in 1971. Today, the chain, a division of Italy's Luxottica Group, operates over two...
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The typical Grade B mall might have several of the stores depicted above, but it is not uncommon to see a few of these nameplates at a high-end Grade A mall.
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Barneys New York, a so-called "luxury department store", originated in Manhattan in 1923. Above, we have the chain's ill-fated NORTHPARK CENTER store, in Dallas, Texas. It opened -with much fanfare- in...
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A collection of logos from the typical "Grade A" shopping mall of today. As its classification would imply, this type of shopping hub is populated by exclusive boutiques and stores catering to the more...
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Atlanta's LENOX SQUARE as it is currently configured. Over the years, the complex has grown from an 800,000 square foot structure housing fifty-two stores into one encompassing 1,545,000 square feet...
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A contemporary view of Greater Pittsburgh's SOUTH HILLS VILLAGE. As has been the case with nearly every single mid-20th century shopping center, the mall's interior has undergone several "facelift"...
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Things had changed by the 1980s, mall-wise. 5 & 10s and grocery stores had been eschewed in favor of more high-end shoe and apparel stores. The upscale, sit-down restaurant -a fixture of the...
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In these three shots, we see typical shopping mall tenants of the 1960s. F.W. Woolworth junior-anchored several malls built in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, including this installation at Tampa's WEST...
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Trademarks of stores and services that were found in many a post-war shopping mall. The focus then was to provide a wide array of merchandisers under one roof. Tenants ranged from the upmarket "anchor"...
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A circa-1963 floor plan of Atlanta's LENOX SQUARE, which was one of the first major shopping malls in the Southeastern United States. In its original incarnation, it featured two large anchor...
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In the 1950s and '60s, the shopping mall was an "everything in one place" place. There would be one -or even two- 5 & 10-type stores, a drug store, supermarket, bowling alley, professional...
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Some may deride the contemporary American shopping mall as aso-called shop till you drop, cathedral of conspic-uous consumption; a manifestation of our society's so-called affluenza epidemic. In many...
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BE SURE TO CHECK OUTOUR TWO COMPANION SITES! THE SHOPPING MALL MUSEUMcovers malls and shopping centers that do not fit into the 1946-1979 grand opening time frame used on the MALL HALL OF...
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