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Building Lifestyle Centers Instead Of Malls

Posted by: maryereynolds

2 September 2006 - 9:00am

The Shops at Evergreen Walk creates a community gathering place, with fewer scary teenagers, among high-end retail shops.

"The fast-growing suburb of South Windsor, Conn., has a problem. It has lots of big highways and subdivisions, but 'no town center.' So South Windsor is creating one by building a 'lifestyle center,' a kind of latter-day shopping center that's become very popular with architects and designers. Gone are big anchor stores, enormous parking lots and food courts. In their place are smaller stores, walkable streets, fountains and sidewalks."

Full Story: 'Lifestyle Centers' Make Shopping Fashionable
Source: National Public Radio, September 1, 2006
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