Shopping Malls

Shopping Mall Sprawl Hurting City Businesses in Israel

Historic downtowns in Israel are struggling against the growing tide of suburban American-style shopping malls that are developing on the outskirts of town.

26 August 2009 - 11:00am

Tablet

Bad Habits Persist in Designs for Future Malls

A competition to design the shopping mall of the future produces some surprisingly non-futuristic results, according to juror and commentator Allison Arieff.

6 June 2009 - 5:00am

The New York Times

Mixed-Use for Mormons

A private development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, City Creek Center will be the largest mixed-use project in Salt Lake City.

15 May 2009 - 12:00pm

The New York Times

Prescribing New Life for Dying Malls

A panel of experts weighs in on what cities should do with their dying shopping malls.

7 April 2009 - 5:00am

The New York Times

Malls Reborn as 'Lifestyle Centers'

American shopping malls may be dying or already dead, but they are being reincarnated as mixed-use "lifestyle centers".

8 March 2009 - 1:00pm

Sustainable Industries

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Columbus Kills its Mall

20 years after the Columbus City Center opened its doors, the now nearly abandoned mall is slated to be demolished. The redevelopment agency plans to replace it with a park.

10 February 2009 - 5:00am

The Columbus Dispatch

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We're Just Not That Into the Mall Anymore

The New York Times takes a humorous look at the America's love affair (and breakup) with the mall over an Orange Julius at the Mall of America.

9 February 2009 - 6:00am

The New York Times

Nate Berg

The military has recently opened a new type of recruitment office known as "The Army Experience Center" in a Philadelphia shopping mall. It's like an arcade, where video games and other interactive technologies provide visitors a glimpse of what it might be like to be in the military. It's a new approach, one that capitalizes on the modern teenager's affection for video games to attract them to the military life. You could call it persuasive, cajoling, or even a thinly-veiled attempt to con kids with flashy games, but, as it provides exactly what its target audience wants, the bottom line is that it's very effective. Why couldn't a city do the same thing?

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A More Populated Future for Tysons Corner

Despite a high concentration of shopping, jobs and parking, Tysons Corner does not have a lot of people. Plans are moving forward that will bring more life to this office park, shopping center city.

20 December 2008 - 7:00am

The New York Times

Holidays Bring No Savior As Retail Centers Empty

Not even the Christmas season is expected to turn things around for struggling retailers, which are dropping like leaves and littering vacancies in shopping centers across the country.

28 November 2008 - 7:00am

Los Angeles Times

Mall Restaurants Foresee Bleak Christmas

With sales down at local malls and retail centers and projected at record lows for the holiday season as households curtail spending, restaurants that rely on retail traffic are preparing for losses.

22 November 2008 - 9:00am

Wall St. Journal

The End of the Age of Malls

Fewer and fewer malls are being built in the U.S., and as they fade from the American landscape, retailers feel the pain.

17 November 2008 - 1:00pm

Newsweek

Re-Inventing the Mall

Shopping malls are rarely architectural gems. Architects, especially big-name architects, typically try to stay away from designing them. But now architects are rethinking how malls should be, and looking to examples of the distant past for guidance.

30 October 2008 - 9:00am

Metropolis Magazine

The Ephemeral Shopping Mall

Harundale Mall, one of the first enclosed malls built in the country, is now a strip mall. This article contains an examination of its somber decline and the direction in which Harundale--and other malls--may be headed next.

3 October 2008 - 9:00am

The Baltimore Sun