Some Historically
Important Shopping Centers in the United States
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|
Year
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Status
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Name
/
Metropolitan
Area |
Comments
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1916
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Open
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Market Square
Chicago, Illinois
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Arthur Aldis designed an
integrated shopping complex of 28 stores, offices, and apartments, with
parking accommodations, for the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest.
It shares a claim as the first planned automobile-centered shopping
center. |
1924
|
Open
|
Country Club Plaza
Kansas City, Missouri
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Jesse Clyde Nichols created
Country Club Plaza adjacent to a planned suburban residential district.
It claims distinction as the first
automobile-centered shopping center
built on a unified plan and operated by a single developer. |
1928
|
Open
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Grandview Avenue
Shopping Center
Columbus, Ohio
|
Don
M. Casto designed a strip of 30 stores (including four
super-markets) and off-street parking for 400 cars, not associated with
an exclusive residential area. This general plan became the prototype
of shopping centers for several decades.
|
1931
|
Open
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Highland Park Village
Dallas, Texas
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Hugh Prather designed this
innovative center, adjacent to a planned
residential community, with stores facing toward an
inner
parking
lot. It was not completed until after World War II. Official
site
|
1932
|
Open
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Park and Shop
Washington, D.C.
|
The
first
important
neighborhood shopping center in the Washington D.C.
area was conceived by Herbert
Shannon and Morton Luchs,
and
designed
by Arthur Heaton.
It served as the model for similar centers through the D.C.
metropolitan area.
|
1937
|
Open
|
River Oaks Shopping
Center
Houston, Texas
|
Probably
the
first
shopping center in Texas, River Oaks was designed by Hugh Prather as a disconnected
cluster of stores along West Gray street. |
1938
|
Open
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Silver Spring
Shopping Center
Silver Spring, Maryland
|
This
example
of
an early super-market anchored shopping center with 19
stores and off-street parking was designed by John Eberson.
|
| 1943
|
?
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Willow Run Shopping
Center
Detroit, Michigan
|
One
of
several
shopping centers built during World War II to serve housing
projects built adjacent to war-time industries, in
this case the Ford-operated B-24 plant.
|
1947
|
Open
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Broadway-Crenshaw
Center
Los Angeles, California
|
This
early
regional
shopping center was originally anchored by a
supermarket,
but has been enlarged and modernized several times.
|
1950
|
Open
|
Northgate Shopping
Center
Seattle, Washington
|
John Graham Jr. designed a
modern shopping center with two rows of stores either side of an
open-air pedestrian mall and anchored by department stores at each
end. Official
site |
1951
|
Open
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Valley Plaza
North Hollywood, California
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Built
in
the
San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles, it was probably the
first shopping center built adjacent to a major freeway.
|
1951
|
Open
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Shoppers World
Framingham, Massachusetts
|
First
two-level
shopping
center, with department store anchors and a dumbbell
floor plan.
|
1954
|
Open
|
Northland Shopping
Center
Southfield, Michigan
|
World's
largest
when
built. Designed by Victor
Gruen, with 110 stores on two levels in a cluster layout, with a
department store anchor at the center.
|
1954
|
Open
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Town and Country
Shopping Center
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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This
standard one-level linear center was the first built by Martin and Mathew Bucksbaum, who
later organized General Growth Properties.
|
1956
|
Open
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Mondawmin Mall
Baltimore, Maryland
|
First
major
shopping
center by James
Rouse, who later became a major mall and festival marketplace
developer in the East.
|
1956
|
Open
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Southdale Center
Edina, Minnesota
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The
first
fully
enclosed shopping center was designed by Victor Gruen and developed by
the Dayton department store, which was one of the two anchors. Official
site
|
1966
|
Open
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The Galleria
Houston
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One
of the largest malls in the US features a vaulted glass ceiling,
inspired by Italian arcades.
|
1970
|
Open
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Woodfield Mall
Shaumberg, Ill.
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First
super-regional
mall.
|
1992
|
Open
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Mall of America
Bloomington, Minnesota
|
This
four-story
mall,
with amusement park, aquarium, and several
full-service restaurants, in addition to a food court, remains the
largest shopping mall in the US in total area. Official
site |
