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Its public debut still a year or more away, the Campus at Horton remains a vast construction site, leaving unanswered the question of whether downtown can become a modern employment center.
Brodie is right—the food court is a specifically designated area. The first one appeared in 1971 at the Plymouth Meeting Mall in Pennsylvania—it flopped because it was too small and offered little variety. But then came the food court at the Paramus Park Mall in New Jersey three years later. It was bigger, had better selections, and, more important, was located on the second floor, forcing visitors to go that extra distance, thereby increasing the odds of their purchasing something along the way.
On loving and loathing some of America’s most common public spaces
Temples of capitalism or community oases? A cultural history of an experiment gone global.
The world’s first indoor mall was meant to usher in a utopian America. But its creator, an Austrian who had fled the Nazis, came to believe a nightmare had been unleashed that ‘destroyed our cities’