This is part 1 or only a 2 part series featured about my fictitious town of Iroquois, New York, and the 40 year shopping history of it. Being that this is part 1, I will only be sharing the mall design and blue prints of it, part 2, I will showcase the time line of store history and shopping, not yet ready to unveil.
This was a small project of mine that came about on a Saturday while it was raining, and I was testing my recently installed Microsoft Word application on my computer. I designed a very commonly styled mall of the 70's, and a basic map of streets and stores that would basically show over time, the development, or a small town, the highs and lows of the economy and to really simulate how what a modern shopping center started from when the big shopping boom happened in the 1970's, when anyone opened a chain store that the public would shop at.
Really nice little 3 anchor mall, the national chain, regional chain, and local chain stores, a grand entrance, seen below, and a series of skylights inspired by the Rolling Acres Mall fountains with the 12 tree's center court.
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I'm really late to the draw on this one. OK, I'm guessing.
ReplyDeleteIt opened in 1975 with Sears, J.C. Penney, and a strong regional department store. Competition took its toll starting soon after a "redecoration" in the mid-1980s that added a food court...and by the late 1990s, it was past its prime. By 2003, it was maybe 25% vacant, with the J.C. Penney now a Burlington Coat Factory. The regional department store became a Macy's in 2006...and in 2008 the mall closed, except for Burlington Coat Factory and Sears. Sears closed around 2011 and in 2012, the mall was demolished for a new Wegmans and Target, leaving the still-operating Burlington Coat Factory intact and renovated.
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Fairly accurate detail on what happened to Iroquois Mall.
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