Meet The New 'Main Street'

Combining elements of the traditional main s street with retail, new "lifestyle centers" springing up in affluent neighborhoods, are gaining back the ground lost by shopping malls in recent years.

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May 3, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Main Street never looked this good. With perfectly manicured shrubbery, plenty of free parking and no panhandlers, real estate developers have come up with a way to take the best elements of a traditional Main Street and fuse them with retail. The result: a lifestyle center... lifestyle centers are making up ground that shopping malls have lost in recent years...Lifestyle centers are not as reliant on department stores. Instead, they contain a mix of large stores such as sporting goods, home furnishings, bookstores and family apparel.With the introduction of lifestyle centers, malls have been trying harder to stay fresh"

Thanks to Kirk Guanco

FULL STORY: Don't Call It A Mall

Tuesday, May 3, 2005 in The San Francisco Chronicle

Community / Economic Development California

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