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  2. Victor Gruen - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Shopping mall - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Horton Plaza (shopping mall) - Wikipedia

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    Horton Plaza was a five-level outdoor shopping mall in downtown San Diego. It was designed by Jon Jerde and was known for its bright colors, architectural tricks, and odd spatial rhythms, occupying 6.5 city blocks adjacent to the city's historic Gaslamp Quarter. Opening in 1985, it was the first successful downtown retail center since the rise ...

  5. List of shopping malls in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Outdoor outlet mall) Manhattan Town Center – Manhattan (1987–present) Metcalf South Shopping Center – Overland Park (1967–2014. Demolished except for the former Sears) Mission Center Mall – Mission (1989–2006. Demolished) Oak Park Mall – Overland Park (1974–present. Largest mall in Kansas and the Kansas City Metropolitan Area)

  6. Kalamazoo Mall - Wikipedia

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    Kalamazoo Mall. The Kalamazoo Mall, the first outdoor pedestrian shopping mall in the United States, is a section of Burdick Street in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan . Built for $60,000 and opened in 1959, the pedestrian mall became the first of several hundred built in the United States. The bold effort to make a downtown street car-free as a ...

  7. List of largest shopping malls in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of shopping malls in the United States and its territories that have at least 2,000,000 total square feet of retail space (gross leasable area).The list is based on the latest self-reported figures from the mall management websites, which are also reported on each mall's individual wiki page.

  8. Arcade (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Arcade (architecture) An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers. Exterior arcades are designed to provide a sheltered walkway for pedestrians; they include many loggias, but here arches are not an essential element. An arcade may feature arches on both sides of the walkway.

  9. List of shopping malls in New Jersey - Wikipedia

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    The Bergen Mall, which was fully enclosed in 1973, was first planned in 1955 by Allied Stores to have 100 stores and 8,600 parking spaces in a 1.5 million square feet (140 × 10 ^ 3 m 2) mall that would include a 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m 2) Stern's store and two other 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m 2) department stores as part of the initial design ...