The First Shopping Mall

When Victor Gruen, the first shopping mall designer in the early 1950s, drafted a plan for a new shopping center, he ordinarily decided to designate the land and use it for the purpose of community and citizenship. This rarely surprises many people, as most of today's shopping malls rarely include such luxury goods. Normally, the land near the shopping center is the main real estate and the income is increasing The shopping mall tends to sell the most distant area of ​​the parking lot and is often used to build a chain restaurant.

The first modern shopping mall was built in the 1950s, including the first shopping mall that uses the word "mall" to represent business models, such as the Bergen shopping center. Other early shopping malls moved retailers from downtown downtown to suburbs of most residential areas. Located in Seattle, Northgate is considered the first modern mall design, with two rows of operators facing each other and separating the sidewalks. It opened in 1950. Shopper World of Framingham, Massachusetts is a two-storey shopping mall that opened in a year. Design was redesigned in 1954 when the Northland Center in Detroit, Michigan was designed with a central design at the anchor shop in the middle of the mall surrounded by other shops. It is the first mall that completely surrounds the shopping center and offers central heating and air conditioning.

Shopping mall and shopping center. America is the birthplace of modern closed-type "shopping center" and outdoor "shopping center". Most large-scale high-end shopping malls are operated by mall operating companies nationwide including Westfield, Simon, General Growth Properties. In addition, there are a few miles of small malls on the outskirts of the United States, or a small row shop and a shared parking lot usually built along high-capacity roads. There is still a central shopping area that can be used for public transportation in big cities, but easy-to-walk shopping streets are not common and are usually small

In the UK and Ireland, "shopping centers" are often called shopping centers. A shopping center is mainly a shopping center (a collection of all shops adjacent to a pedestrian zone) or a dedicated pedestrianized road that allows shoppers to walk without disturbing the traffic of vehicles. In North America, a shopping center is usually composed of one building including several stores, usually used to refer to a large shopping area "fixed" to one or more department stores surrounded by parking lots It will be. "Especially in the UK, it often refers to narrow pedestrian streets, roofed or dense buildings (see downtown).