Lifestyle Centers: 'Mall-Town America'

The shopping center industry has discovered a hybrid of housing and retail development.

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February 22, 2002, 5:00 AM PST

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

"A new hybrid of retail development and housing that has seized the imagination of the shopping center industry in the last year, just as regional megamall developments have begun to lumber and older suburban strip malls shutter and die.More than a dozen such malls are breaking ground nationally...Open-air and upscale, with Main Street-style architecture, they are intended to appeal to young professionals with expensive brand- name tastes and retirement-ready empty nesters looking for downtown's retail sophistication."

Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism

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