Then, in the 1970s, it was reconfigured as a car-free pedestrian mall, ... It signifies the complex and often unpredictable history of pedestrian malls in the United States over the past 60 years.

The Kalamazoo Mall was the nation’s first outdoor pedestrian shopping mall and it celebrated its 60th anniversary Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The pedestrian mall was the first of its kind in the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Sixty years ago this week, Kalamazoo made national history. The Kalamazoo Mall opened to the public becoming the first pedestrian mall in the United States, said Andrew Haan ...

A mall designer named Victor Gruen came up with an idea for a downtown pedestrian mall in Texas. But people in Kalamazoo contacted him, and the first downtown pedestrian mall in the United States ...

Schmidt has studied the earlier widespread failure of pedestrian malls throughout the United States. Those plazas were created in the '70s and '80s in an attempt to help older business districts, ...

Could Laura Street become the next great pedestrian mall? In 2015, five blocks of Laura Street were named one of the best five streets in the United States by the American Planning Association as ...

I was not alive 40 years ago when downtown attempted its pedestrian mall and failed. As a taxpayer of this city I deserve the chance to see the downtown area flourish.

Destiny USA; Destiny USA: Directions, map, parking guide for the Syracuse mall. Published: ; Jul. 11, 2014, 2:45 p.m.

Discover the top 10 most walkable cities in the United States, where pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, vibrant ...