Archive for Shopping Malls
March 14, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Shopping Malls, Suburbs
It rises out of the tidal murk of the Meadowlands — the polluted northern–New Jersey wetlands on which the sports complex of the same name was built some 33 years ago — like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing? It’s a mishmash of big-box structures covered in aqua, blue and white tiles, with a little mustard yellow and brown thrown in to finish off the 1970s-nightmare look. Part of the complex, still under construction, is shaped like a ski jump, because what says industrial metropolitan America quite like a Nordic sport?
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February 22, 2009 · Filed under Economics, Real Estate, Shopping Malls, Shrinking Cities
A report on the BBC Radio Four channel estimated this week that 80,000 shops will close in the UK this year thanks to the credit crunch. It did not give any figures to suggest how many of those shops would be on the High Streets of rural market towns but, from long and often sad experience, I would suggest that it will be roughly half – and the process has already started.
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February 18, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Revitalization, Shopping Malls, Suburbs, Urban Design
Architects Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson confront the challenge of redeveloping abandoned suburban retail space in their new book, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley Press, 2009). The detailed text also explores several creative solutions in which progressive planning has reinvigorated suburban communities nationwide. PM spoke to Dunham-Jones about the challenge of replacing dying malls and the culture of the car with pedestrian-centered residential and retail development.
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February 11, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Mixed Use, Shopping Malls, Urban Design
The recession is bad news for retail developers, and a recent gathering of them was rife with concern about the field and its future. But amid the uncertainty is an air of hope — and an understanding that to survive, the face of retail development must adapt.
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February 2, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Real Estate, Recreation, Shopping Malls, Suburbs
DEARLY beloved.
We are gathered here today, in the midst of economic calamity, to ask if we really should be gathered here today, in a funhouse of merchandise designed to send us deeper into debt.
Specifically, we are gathered in the Chapel of Love, sandwiched between a LensCrafters and a Bloomingdale’s and tucked into a relatively quiet corner of the vast prairie of retail and amusements that is the Mall of America.
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