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A businessman looks southeast from one of the new skyscrapers that would have been built as part of the Gruen Plan. Historic sites visible and still familiar today include the Federal Courthouse and ...

Over the last decade, malls have fallen increasingly out of favor. Once showcased in popular culture as a prime place to meet friends and socialize, they have increasingly come to represent all that’s ...

A shopping center's exterior can sometimes stay the same for decades at a time, but the brands inside come and go more than ...

The father of the American mall Victor Gruen, best known for Southdale Mall, had a greater vision for the new community form. Reimagining the mall may bring it closer to his original intent. There is ...

Nearly 70 years ago the American shopping mall was born in Edina, Minnesota. Southdale Mall was the idea of the Godfather of the Shopping Mall, Victor Gruen. The Austrian-American architect immigrated ...

For years, downtown storekeepers in the nation’s cities have been standing morosely watching all the ladies go by—to the suburban shopping centers. It is the city’s biggest dilemma in the age of the ...

Even if you do most of your shopping online these days, it's hard to imagine a world without the shopping mall. There's something about exploring store-to-store that just doesn't compare to using a ...

Today thousands of empty suburban malls dot the American landscape. Describing decaying buildings and cracked asphalt parking lots, eulogy after eulogy arrives at the same conclusion: The mall is ...

MINNEAPOLIS - It was 1952, and history was being made in the boardroom of Dayton's department store in downtown Minneapolis. But no one knew it. Flamboyant architect Victor Gruen had suggested a novel ...

The long-awaited effort to reinvent Market East began in the same bombshell manner as the Sixers’ arena proposal did three ...