An 812,000-square-foot retail/entertainment center located about 2.5 miles from Disneyland in Orange, California. Although the center, which has drawn more than 12 million visitors in its first year of operation, has a racetrack-shaped circulation pattern, its design is meant to resemble a city grid featuring two principal parallel “streets” connected by smaller streets. The project is anchored by a 30-theater AMC Cineplex at the center of the site. An ever-changing choreography of signs, lighting, and special effects helps to keep the project fresh and exciting.
A 250,000-square-foot, open-air mall located in the Pelican Bay master -planned community. The upscale retail center, which includes 47 retail boutiques and two anchor department stores, was developed by a limited partnership between the Courtelis Company and the Westinghouse Communities of Naples. An elaborate waterscape in the mall’s center courtyard Including extensively landscaped waterfalls, ponds, and lagoons, creates a casual but elegant retail environment. Waterside is anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue’s prototype “resort” store and Jacobson’s.
Winter Park Village is a 525,000-square-foot (48,773-square-meter) mixed-use lifestyle center located on the site of a failed regional shopping mall in Winter Park, Florida, an affluent older suburb of Orlando. The project, which is home to a lineup of high-end national retailers and restaurants, features 350,000 square feet (32,515 square meters) of retail space, including a 20-screen cinema, 115,000 square feet (10,684 square meters) of offices, and 52 loft apartments. The planners’ and developer’s primary objective for this redevelopment project was to establish an urban sense of place where a typical 1960s-era shopping mall had been. As of December 2006 Winter Park Village continues to evolve, with structured parking and additional residential, retail, and office developments in the works.
The Grove is a 575,000-square-foot (53,417-square-meter), open-air retail and entertainment center adjacent to the historic Farmers Market in Los Angeles, California. The success of The Grove is attributable to the synergy among its entertainment-focused uses — a 14-theater cineplex, a range of sit-down restaurants that are unique to the area, a three-level Barnes and Noble bookstore, and a complement of major retailers — all placed within an architecturally friendly outdoor, protected, and communal environment. In retailing terms, The Grove has three heavyweight anchors — the 70-shop Farmers Market on one end, a flagship Nordstrom on the other, and the aforementioned 3,000-seat cinema, replete with revolving blade sign and marquee, at its center. Completed in 2002, the center, in just a year of operations, has posted visitor patronage levels exceeding those of Disneyland in nearby Orange County.
Developed in 1966 as a one-anchor regional mall. In 1988, the sole anchor department store, Lazarus, left to become a new anchor in the expanded Kenwood Plaza (now known as Kenwood Towne Center), leaving only its furniture department behind. In-line tenants with expiring leases also began to leave, preferring instead to locate in Kenwood Towne Center, the upscale super regional mall located across the street. Rather than compete directly with the new center, the developers of Sycamore Plaza decided to redevelop the center as a power center with a vertical component. Sycamore Plaza at Kenwood now boasts five large national and regional category killer merchants as anchor tenants and a host of non-anchor tenants. Its orientation was virtually turned inside out during the $18.7 million conversion.
A 417,000-square-foot retail center located in the Cascades Town Center. The Center features five grids of neotraditional design that offer regional, community, and neighborhood retail shopping. Local officials’ flexibility permitted the developer to create a center that offers the ambience of a pedestrian-oriented small-town Main Street while satisfying the pragmatic requirements of modern retailing, such as convenient access and parking.
A 260,400-square-foot free-standing entertainment center within the 3,600-acre Irvine Spectrum master-planned business community. The center is anch ored by a 158,000-square-foot theater complex featuring the first IMAX 3D theater on the West Coast. The tenant mix is designed to appeal to a broad range of users and includes four signature restaurants, a two-story Barnes & Nobles Superstore, and Sega City, a 15,000-square-foot virtual reality center.
A 533,000-square-foot outlet located 45 miles north of Pittsburgh. Developed by Prime Retail, L.P., of Baltimore, the largest developer of outlet centers in the United States, the project currently ranks as the sixth-largest outlet center in the United States. The project was developed in four phases, with the first 235,000 square feet opening in August 1994 and the final 118,000 square feet opening in November 1996. The project occupies approximately 70 acres at the intersection of north/south Interstate 79 and Pennsylvania Route 208.
Built around the old Fahaheel fishing harbor, Al Kout-Fahaheel Waterfront is a 24-hectare (59-ac) retail and entertainment center that has transformed the waterfront into an accessible, vibrant, and public space that draws visitors from all over Kuwait. The product of a public/private partnership, the project comprises more than 17,000 square meters (182,986 sq ft) of retail space along two piers, two marinas, and a beachfront promenade with public amenities. The Al Kout-Fahaheel Waterfront is the first phase of Madinat Al Fahaheel, a 300,000-square-meter (3.2 million-sq-ft) mixed-use development.
The Walk is an outdoor outlet shopping center that occupies approximately eight blocks in Atlantic City’s downtown. Centered on North Michigan Avenue, it connects the city’s convention center and the famed Boardwalk. Its 320,000 square feet (29,729 square meters) of retail and restaurant space on 15 acres (six hectares) allow visitors to walk to and from Atlantic City’s gateway to the destination that most tourists seek: the Boardwalk and its casinos.
