The urbane, mixed-use prototype was supplanted in the years after World War II by the freestanding, single-purpose, enclosed center.
Can it be a coincidence that this Middle English artifact encloses — centered perfectly — the Latin esse, the primal verb "to be"?
Due to the Steelers' suggestions, the stadium's design was changed to enclose center field.
The Galleria at White Plains, an 885,000-square-foot enclosed mall in the center of the county seat, also owes part of its long-term success to a location that helps it draw from a wide geographic base, said Patrice Duker, a spokeswoman at the International Council of Shopping Centers.
The original owner of Owings Mills, General Growth Properties, sold a 50percentt stake to Mr. Simmons's company in 2011, and now Kimco is working to redevelop it into a hybrid of an open-air shopping center and enclosed mall.
When it opened in November 1996, Atlantic Center, the enclosed mall at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, was considered by some to be a beacon to retailers reluctant to venture into parts of the city outside Manhattan.
Herring Marathon Group Inc. of Dallas unveiled plans to convert the then-open-air Park Plaza shopping center into an enclosed mall directly across Markham Street, just north of University Mall.
When a BJ's Wholesale Club opens there later this year -- construction is scheduled to begin within 30 days -- it will have gone from "an enclosed mall to a power center, where the bulk of the tenants are category killers like BJ's, which is a category killer for grocery needs, and Best Buy, which dominates the electronics market," Mr. Briskin said.
As economic trends threaten the long-term viability of large, enclosed shopping centers, mall developers are increasingly looking to new and innovative uses for existing spaces [ 1].
It might be better to think of the Strip as the world's largest mall, because its private management reminds me of enclosed shopping centers, writ very large.
