erature throughout the entire year as scientifically engineered for ease of accessibility is far more than just a shopping center (Urban Retail Properties Co.).
             October 8, 1956, with the opening of the new shopping mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Southdale Center became the first completely climate-controlled shopping mall in the United States (Southdale, Wikipedia). At this mall, shoppers from all over the country came to enjoy the widest selection of quality merchandise. Shoppers were provided with a sidewalk cafe as well as an outdoor atmosphere with the block-long, three story central Garden Court. The selection of stores this mall had to offer extended nearly a mile long but was devised to feel as if they were seconds apart. Southdale's strategic location at the southwest corner of the city, adjacent to major traffic arteries in every direction, makes complete freedom of accessibility one of its major convenience (Urban Retail Properties Co.). Skeptics of creating a new mall were quickly erased as the opening of the first ever enclosed shopping center became a major success. Dating back to the first ever mall built in the United States, consumers have always been attracted by large selections, low prices, and safe convenient shopp
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