56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1499 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:18 pm: | |
from last night's WSU Virtual Motor city binge. Look up the "Carnival Mall" on WSU-VMC--it's scarry! |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 6190 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:33 pm: | |
I say this carnival mall would die out by the 1990s due to all po'folks, robberies and shootings. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1166 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:34 pm: | |
wot i think its a grate idea we need mallz to make ppl com into the city and spend mony * Medication kicking in... * MY GOD HOW HORRIBLE! |
Quozl Member Username: Quozl
Post Number: 884 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 12:36 pm: | |
OMG! The Pentagon as a shopping mall. |
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1721 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 1:01 pm: | |
i'd take a software company over that anyday |
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1682 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 1:25 pm: | |
"OMG! The Pentagon as a shopping mall." THe first thing that came into my head when I saw it. I could of swore it was D.C. |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 357 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 2:50 pm: | |
The idea might have worked if it had been built immediately after Kern's was razed. It also might have prompted Hudson's and Crowley's to renovate their buildings with downsized stores and other mixed-use elements (condominiums, hotel, parking etc.). |
Aiw Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6307 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 2:53 pm: | |
The saddest thing is that the great architect Charles Agree was reduced to designing mall at the end of his career. From the Vanity Ballroom to Oakland Mall. |
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 2338 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 2:58 pm: | |
The best thing would be that "midtown" would be the area around the mall, and we could still call the corridor the corridor. |
Jasoncw Member Username: Jasoncw
Post Number: 378 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 3:30 pm: | |
It's only two stories, and next to Hudson's, lol. |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 358 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 3:46 pm: | |
It would have been a simple matter to build an office or condominium tower above the two-story mall. Unfortunately, there was no demand for such a tower, then or now. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1827 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 3:56 pm: | |
WSU/VMC both |
Eric_c Member Username: Eric_c
Post Number: 1003 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 4:01 pm: | |
...and so it began... |
Kslice Member Username: Kslice
Post Number: 98 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 5:25 pm: | |
Can you say 80's??? |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 1310 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 11:41 pm: | |
Victor Gruen designed a very similar mall in downtown Rochester NY. It worked for a while. I visited the mall around 1990 and found it to be an interesting space. At the time one of the department stores was still open, but not by much, there was also a dime store, and a few other places. It did a good job of connecting the Xerox Tower with Main Street though and there were people there, it just was not lively. The place had a monorail that encircled the inside. It was pretty much a kiddie-ride. Here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =LtG2CfAwMGE |