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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.
Great Mall of the Bay Area – Milpitas (1994–present) Grossmont Center – La Mesa (1961–present, outdoor) The Grove at Farmers Market – Los Angeles (2002–present, outdoor) Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center – Hawthorne (1977–1999) Hemet Valley Mall – Hemet (1980–present)
American Dream Meadowlands. / 40.81000°N 74.06750°W / 40.81000; -74.06750. American Dream Meadowlands is a large retail and entertainment complex in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. [4] As of 2024, it is the second-largest shopping mall in the United States with more than 450 stores.
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. Typical examples include shopping malls, town squares, flea markets and ...
Victor Gruen. 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 ...
More recent shopping dedicated areas outside the main centre are known as "shopping centres" (with understanding of the synonym shopping mall) "shopping villages" or "retail parks". According to author Richard Longstreth, before the 1920s–1930s, the term "shopping center" in the U.S. was loosely applied to any group of adjacent retail businesses.
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 ...
Potomac Mills is a shopping mall located in Dale City, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The first mall developed by the Mills Corporation, it was acquired in 2007 by Simon Property Group . Simon claims it to be the largest outlet mall [1] in Virginia. It has also been claimed to be the top tourist attraction in Virginia, [2 ...