What was the first mall created?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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I wondered about this today as well. I was born in 1972, and where I grew up, I do not remember any malls at all until about 1980. That doesn't mean the rest of the world had no malls as well. I did a google search with the question, "when did the fist mall open?" It came back with plenty of search results. I looked on Wikipedia.com and here is what I found. There was plenty of info on the page, but I found a small paragraph about malls in the US. Here is what the Wikipedia page said:

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Malls started in the 1920's as strip malls. And gradually built into bigger malls IN 1937 the first non strip mall was built.

Answer 5

1937