The Official USA Mall Thread

[Jayayess1190]

Other big malls in the PA part of the tri-state area include The Gallery (one of the largest downtown malls, 4 blocks long and includes a train station), Franklin Mills Outlet Mall, Montgomery Mall, and Plymouth Meeting Mall.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by 30 Floors Up

LOL. Stand for "French Connection - United Kingdom". Seriously!

ok, but how would one handle the trendiest new store for military fashion and clothing for a day on the town in Bagdad or Tekrit:

Fine Uniforms by Calvin Klein

??????

[peeph0le]

Its one of the biggest malls in the South Bay with a total retail floor area 1,475,600ft2, bordered between San Jose and Santa Clara.






Original Valley Fair:



The mall has been expanded twice already, but they're planning a 3rd expansion. Its also right across the street from Santana Row.

[-Corey-]

Originally Posted by TexasBoi

image hosted on flickr


Very interesting.

i read fuck

[g-man430]

Greenville, SC-

Haywood Mall:
http://www.simon.com/mall/LeasingShe...aywoodMall.pdf and http://www.simon.com/about_simon/lea...ll.aspx?id=206 for pics and information. Largest mall in South Carolina.

The Shops at Greenridge:


















































Future development: http://www.thepointgreenville.com/ Sorry, no pics available at the present time.

http://www.magnoliapark.com/ Oh, and we can't forget the brand new Costco at Magnolia Park Town Center:

[gladisimo]

Originally Posted by peeph0le

Its one of the biggest malls in the South Bay with a total retail floor area 1,475,600ft2, bordered between San Jose and Santa Clara.

How can you put in Valley Fair but not the neighboring Santana Row!

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by gladisimo

How can you put in Valley Fair but not the neighboring Santana Row!

If old lady Winchester had this one across the street in her day, believe me she wouldn't have been spending her time adding on rooms!

[-KwK345-]

Originally Posted by mhays

the Texas habit of putting wide fringes of nothing between the road and the parking lot, a la Home Depot.

I learned recently that that land is for restaraunts and outparcel type stuff.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by gladisimo

How can you put in Valley Fair but not the neighboring Santana Row!

Santana Row (or Satan's Row for the detractors) is a touchy subject for people, it seems. The place has high-end retail and fancy crap for ritzy types and it has created a sort of divide between people who prefer that or those who dig the grungier (and far more diverse) downtown scene. If everyone's happy, though, I don't see what's wrong. Santana Row has people out and walking around, dining, shopping, drinking, etc. That's fine by me.

[g-man430]

That's dense. What are you thinking? We're supposed to be showing sprawl development and how great they are.

[-KwK345-]

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by g-man430

That's dense. What are you thinking? We're supposed to be showing sprawl development and how great they are.

Eh, it's still a mall!

[modestproposal]

You all need to see the mall threads for Asia and the wealthier Muslim countries. Their malls blow ours out of the water. Forrizle.

[prelude91]

I noticed that Office Max and Staples always seem to anchor these huge strip malls, but everytime I shop at one (which isnt too often) the stores are dead.

[pwright1]

[krudmonk]

Oh, so that's why Seattle is compared to S.F. Looks really good.

[rantanamo]

Originally Posted by modestproposal

You all need to see the mall threads for Asia and the wealthier Muslim countries. Their malls blow ours out of the water. Forrizle.

thats because there are few in those places and most were built this decade, while here in the US, malls are like trees

[UrbanCyclop]

The Galleria in Dallas:

[-KwK345-]

Originally Posted by rantanamo

while here in the US, malls are like trees

is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[Xusein]

Here are some aerials of malls in the Greater Hartford area:

Westfarms and Buckland Hills did a good job of ruining Hartford's downtown retail. With one being west of the city, and the other east, it was a double threat. Westfarms is the more upscale of all three, but Buckland and Meriden have a lot of noveau riche.

Enfield's Mall caters to a more "blue-collar" crowd than the others.

Westfarms Mall
One of the most successful malls per square foot in the US. It does help that it's near some very rich suburbs. Has the only Nordstrom in Connecticut. It kind of looks funny from above because of previous expansion. It doesn't have a food court.




Buckland Hills Mall
I already showed this...there are more developments around here, because there is more room. If you are a fan of endless big box and strip malls, you'll love here. They have a nice comedy club there now.




Enfield Square Mall
It's a little farther from Hartford, near Massachusetts. Nothing much here, but it has a Target inside the mall. If I ever go there, which I don't really, I go north of the border to get cheaper gas.




Meriden Square Mall
This is outside Hartford County. Nothing much here that isn't anywhere else, but I noticed that stuff here is cheaper here. Hard to believe, but it's technically in the New York metro, literally on the fringes. The Hartford metro starts about 5 minutes north.



Hartford is the most suburbanized metro out of all the others in Connecticut, and the majority of the malls in the state are around here. In fact, after Buckland Hills Mall, there are no malls in CT east of it. It's the mall for the entire Northeastern part of Connecticut.