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56packman
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


downtown Mall


downtown mall


from last night's WSU Virtual Motor city binge.

Look up the "Carnival Mall" on WSU-VMC--it's scarry!
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Danny
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I say this carnival mall would die out by the 1990s due to all po'folks, robberies and shootings.
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Detroitnerd
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

wot i think its a grate idea we need mallz to make ppl com into the city and spend mony

* Medication kicking in... *

MY GOD HOW HORRIBLE!
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Quozl
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

OMG! The Pentagon as a shopping mall.
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Gravitymachine
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 1:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i'd take a software company over that anyday
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Urbanize
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 1:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"OMG! The Pentagon as a shopping mall."

THe first thing that came into my head when I saw it. I could of swore it was D.C.
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Ramcharger
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 2:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The idea might have worked if it had been built immediately after Kern's was razed. It also might have prompted Hudson's and Crowley's to renovate their buildings with downsized stores and other mixed-use elements (condominiums, hotel, parking etc.).
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Aiw
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 2:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The saddest thing is that the great architect Charles Agree was reduced to designing mall at the end of his career.

From the Vanity Ballroom to Oakland Mall.
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Dabirch
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 2:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The best thing would be that "midtown" would be the area around the mall, and we could still call the corridor the corridor.
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Jasoncw
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 3:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's only two stories, and next to Hudson's, lol.
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Ramcharger
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 3:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It would have been a simple matter to build an office or condominium tower above the two-story mall. Unfortunately, there was no demand for such a tower, then or now.
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Hornwrecker
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 3:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Kern Block demo



Crowley-Milner / Kern Block

WSU/VMC both
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Eric_c
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 4:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

...and so it began...
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Kslice
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 5:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Can you say 80's???
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Detroitplanner
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 11:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Victor Gruen designed a very similar mall in downtown Rochester NY. It worked for a while. I visited the mall around 1990 and found it to be an interesting space. At the time one of the department stores was still open, but not by much, there was also a dime store, and a few other places. It did a good job of connecting the Xerox Tower with Main Street though and there were people there, it just was not lively.

The place had a monorail that encircled the inside. It was pretty much a kiddie-ride.

Here is a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =LtG2CfAwMGE

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