Mall sights in North America
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Lincoln Road Mall
Calling Lincoln Rd a mall is like calling Big Ben a clock; it’s technically accurate but misses the point. Yes, you can shop, and shop very well here. But this outdoor pedestrian thoroughfare is really about seeing and being seen, and there are few better places in Greater Miami for both. Morris Lapidus, one of the founders of the loopy, neo-baroque Miami Beach style, designed several buildings on the Mall, including the Lincoln Theatre, Sterling Building and Colony Theater, which looks like the sort of place where gangsters go to watch Hamlet. There’s an excellent farmers market (open 9am-7pm Sun) and an Antiques & Collectibles Market (open 9am-5pm every other Sunday…
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Wallingford Center
This boutique and restaurant mall, inhabiting the nearly condemned, refurbished old Wallingford grade school, is the hub of the area. Out front, the Wallingford Animal Storm sculpture, created by artist Ronald Petty, depicts wildlife found in and around the neighborhood. It’s not a destination, particularly, but it makes a good landmark or a handy place to park yourself on a bench and relax for a moment.
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Cocowalk & Streets of Mayfair
Credited for reviving Coconut Grove in the 1990s, this pair of alfresco malls of ubiquitous chain stores is perhaps (and inexplicably) the Grove's biggest tourist draw. See them for yourself if you must, but it's just the usual suspects.
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Time Warner Center
This pair of sleek towers, built for $1.8 billion on the site of the former New York Coliseum, is a highly visible retail center on the edge of Central Park. The seven-floor atrium, which affords grand views of the park from behind its glass facade and features a wonderful collection of Fernando Botero sculptures in its common spaces, is basically a mall, albeit a rarely crowded one. That’s probably because its stores – which include Williams-Sonoma, J Crew, Borders Books and Hugo Boss – can be found in so many other places, NYC and otherwise. The basement’s 59,000-sq-ft Whole Foods organic supermarket, though, now one of several in the city, is frequently a mob scene.…
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