1. An open-air mall, it fell victim to enclosed malls and big-box retailers. 2. Across the country, enclosed malls are spending their third decades in a slow slide toward obsolescence. 3. Creations stores tend to be sited in upscale suburban neighborhoods and to be free-standing or located in strip malls rather than enclosed malls. 4. He acknowledged that plans for an enclosed mall were more speculative. 5. Nor had the concept of an enclosed urban mall with national retail chains as anchors taken hold. 6. Only now, the public square is an enclosed private mall where controversy is viewed as an impediment to commerce. 7. Seventeen large enclosed malls might be thought to be enough for a small state like Connecticut. 8. The process is happening first with strip shopping centers, which are usually older than enclosed malls and less complex architecturally. 9. They are in enclosed malls, which are out of favor with time-pressed shoppers. 10. Westcor is working on plans for a mall north of Denver and one in Chandler that incorporate an outdoor streetscape environment within an enclosed mall. |