The first strip mall was created in 1922 in Kansas City, Mo. by J.C. Nichols. The first enclosed mall was created in 1956 in Edina, Min.
The first "megamalls" were created in the 1980s, containing hundreds of stores.
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The first retail complex to be promoted as a "mall," as it were, was Paramus, New Jersey's The Outlets at Bergen Town Center. The center, which opened with an open-air-format in 1957, was enclosed in 1973. Aside from Southdale Center, significant early enclosed shopping malls were Harundale Mall (1958), in Glen Burnie, Maryland, Big Town Mall (1959), in Mesquite, Texas, Chris-Town Mall (1961), in Phoenix, Arizona, and Randhurst Center (1962), in Mount Propect, Illinois.
Well, if you want to get technical, the first "mall" was in the city of Damascus, Syria, and was built in the 19th century. The first mall that is more like the shopping malls of today was built in 1875 in St. Petersburg.
Malls started in the 1920's as strip malls. And gradually built into bigger malls IN 1937 the first non strip mall was built.
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The Pall Mall Magazine was first created in 1893 as a British literary and cultural magazine. It merged with the Fortnightly Review in 1914 to become The Fortnightly and Pall Mall Magazine.
Meadowood Mall was created in 1978.
Westdale Mall was created in 1979.
West Mall was created in 2007.
Volusia Mall was created in 1974.
Eastwood Mall was created in 1969.
Lynnhaven Mall was created in 1981.
The Maine Mall was created in 1971.
Turfland Mall was created in 1967.
Lakeside Mall was created in 1976.
Mall Airways was created in 1973.
Barstow Mall was created in 1975.