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Music City Mall; Odessa, Texas 8 Jun 2013 | 12:31 am
Music City Mall opened in 1980 as Permian Mall, located on the northeast side of town along Highway 191 and kitty-corner to the University of Texas - Permian Basin. Permian Mall wasn't Odessa's first ...
Midland Park Mall; Midland, Texas 8 Jun 2013 | 12:30 am
Midland Park Mall opened in 1980, on the northwest side of Midland, located at Loop 250 and Midkiff Road. Slightly smaller than Odessa's Music City Mall, Midland Park Mall has around 650,000 square fe...
CenterPoint MarketPlace; Stevens Point, Wisconsin 3 Dec 2012 | 02:07 am
Anchored by two department stores, JCPenney and Green Bay-based ShopKo, with space for a third anchor, CenterPoint Mall opened with space for 60 smaller stores under one enclosed roof. The 220,000 squ...
Victor Gruen and the Birth of the Shopping Mall 23 Aug 2012 | 02:14 am
It shouldn’t be any surprise that we idolize Victor Gruen at Labelscar. It’s not just because, 60 years ago, he invented the form of shopping center that is the primary focus of this blog (though that...
It’s Mall Week at The AV Club 23 Aug 2012 | 01:08 am
Do you read the Onion’s AV Club? If you don’t, you might not be aware that it’s “Mall Week” over there, with a slew of posts all about malls and pop culture. Today, they had a post that very well coul...
Moorestown Mall; Moorestown, New Jersey 13 Aug 2012 | 03:11 am
The nation is littered with places where two malls sprung up right next to each other — the post that sat at the top of the Labelscar homepage for *cough* uhh *cough* four months, the one right in fro...
The Galleria; Edina, Minnesota 21 Apr 2012 | 09:48 am
The Galleria is a 417,000 square-foot, mostly single-level upscale enclosed shopping mall in Edina, Minnesota, an upscale suburb of Minneapolis. Anchored by Gabbert’s furniture, Crate and Barrel, Bar...
Crestwood Plaza (Crestwood Court); Crestwood, Missouri 31 Mar 2012 | 08:13 am
Another one bites the dust. A few weeks ago, Crestwood Court, a super-regional enclosed shopping mall located in southwest-suburban St. Louis, kicked most of its tenants out amid speculation of forth...
Serramonte Center Mall; Daly City, California 29 Mar 2012 | 03:56 pm
We’ve covered hundreds of malls on this site, but only a few dozen of them have much of a personal connection. The Serramonte Center Mall in Daly City is one of those, since I currently live only abou...
Sorry for the Disappearing Act 27 Mar 2012 | 07:03 am
Longtime readers may have noticed that the site recently had a major technical issue, where all comments on all stories–a huge share of our overall content and part of the reason people come here to b...
