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  CoolTown Studios: Main street mall - oxymoron?
Main streets have neighborhood-oriented venues like a coffeeshop, hair stylist, deli, pub, etc., many of which are independent businesses, while shopping streets are more like outdoor malls that tend to attract the chains, often because there's a single owner or the rents become quite expensive.
Main streets are perceived to be more authentic because they happen organically with multiple, diverse, unpredictable owners.
The creatives and entrepreneurs that generate jobs are attracted to main streets, not shopping streets, and not main street malls, which are shopping streets using the main street name to appeal to shoppers.
www.cooltownstudios.com /mt/archives/000546.html   (286 words)

  
 Main Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main Street is the generic street name (and sometimes the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in many parts of the world.
Main Street is the name of a community revitalization program begun by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the late 1970s.
The core of the Main Street philosophy is the preservation of the historic built environment by engaging in historic preservation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Main_Street   (738 words)

  
 :: CHRISTMAS MARKET AT MAIN STREET MALL ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
MAIN Street has become a peaceful and rather beautiful haven from the hustle and bustle of the inner city.
The market, organised by Main Street Mall, a section 21 company, is at the piazza seating area, next to the SA Eagle building.
The first Main Street Mall market was held over three days in December last year.
www.joburg.org.za /2005/nov/nov29_market.stm   (510 words)

  
 The Park Record - Main Street's charm threatened
The mall and other modern-day buildings on Main Street are the targets of a devastating report issued in November and released by City Hall in mid-December, an unexpected rebuke of the city's preservation efforts on the street.
In 1979, when the street was nominated to the National Register, 65 properties, or 69 percent of the buildings, were historic, according to the research.
Ken Davis, who leads the Main Street merchants, says the street is an attractive place, one that cannot be reconstructed in style elsewhere, regardless of the report.
www.parkrecord.com /todaysheadlines/ci_4892323   (1476 words)

  
 Main Street Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Main Street Mall (also called the Main Street Shopping Centre) is a complex in the town of Omagh, County Tyrone in Ireland.
It is strange as many people would think that it is a shopping centre on Main Street, however it is a street in its own right.
It has its own car park which is usually used for local markets and in winter 2004 it was used for an ice rink.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Main_Street_Mall   (136 words)

  
 Downtown Little Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Main Street mall, in rehabilitated commercial buildings, hummed briefly with a trendy pizzeria, a bustling bar and retailers selling everything from upscale clothing and chocolates to books.
The lack of parking on Main Street was a problem and businesses began closing.
The open mall interior is a forlorn spot now for state employees hanging out on a lunch break.
www.downtownlittlerock.com /page.cfm?StoryID=31   (277 words)

  
 BeyondDC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dozens of cities all over the country pedestrianized streets in the 1970s in a desperate attempt to compete with enclosed suburban malls, only to see their streets become devoid of users.
Pedestrian malls are a symbol of, and partly a symptom of, declining cities and the failed urban policies of the mid and later century.
The Portland, Oregon transit mall is grotesque, although it is in the process of being redesigned.
beyonddc.com /log/?p=49   (1815 words)

  
 Charlottesville, Virginia
Virginia Discovery Museum, are located on the mall or on adjacent streets, bringing special activities to the area.
Originally constructed in 1976, the pedestrian mall underwent a facelift in the 1990s that includes new street furniture, signage and an expanded plaza at the center of the pedestrian mall.
The mall is carefully organized into two 15-foot pedestrian corridors along the storefronts, on either side of the mall, and a 30-foot central plaza devoted to public art, cafe tables, art stands and groves of street trees.
www.greatstreets.org /MainStreets/MainCharlottesville.html   (565 words)

  
 GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION FOR POUGHKEEPSIE MAIN MALL
Main Street was closed to vehicular traffic in the 1970s, creating a pedestrian mall.
Main Street would be two directional and it would be two lanes wide with parallel parking along both sides.
Several other projects are being considered by the City and DOT in conjunction with the Main Mall/Main Street Project, including traffic calming and aesthetic improvements to the westbound arterial from North Hamilton Street to Market Street, and improving the westbound arterial from Market Street to Main Street.
www.state.ny.us /governor/press/00/sept15_00.htm   (830 words)

  
 Maasin City, Southern Leyte - A Bravenet.com Forum
The malls in some famous cities were not created for people with the money to go shopping and/or touring.
They were existing streets (not brand-new streets) which were converted to revitalize the dying, dilapidated or very old downtown main streets.
They were built to provide, to facilitate, and to serve the downtown residents, workers, and out of town folks to do their business (including tour, visit, etc.), professions, jobs, tasks, or errands in one particular "main street," instead of waisting time, money, and energies going in circles or going to many places or streets.
pub50.bravenet.com /forum/4226942271/fetch/528653   (324 words)

  
 Metamorphosis on Main Street
The long-awaited main street trolleys of Memphis made their debut this past April 29 and April 30, with numerous speeches, a banner-breaking, a show of bands and street performers and other festivities.
Most of the 2.5-mile-long line is in the middle of Main Street, but in some places the tracks are separated and run along the curb.
Various textured surfaces line the tracks, sidewalks and the ten-block Main Street Mall, which is dosed to auto traffic.
www.heritagetrolley.org /TNERJMemphis2.htm   (768 words)

  
 Salt Lake City Weekly - A Bridge Too Far
Taubman’s point person on the Main Street project, Bruce Heckman, said the City Creek Center won’t be a fortress mall, but a “porous” part of downtown.
Each of the two existing mall blocks is to be split into four smaller blocks with cross streets that encourage people to walk not only on Main Street but to the Gallivan Center, Temple Square and the Salt Palace, he said.
Main Street foot traffic would be encouraged by placing entrances to many individual stores at street level as well as by Main Street mall elevators.
www.slweekly.com /article.cfm/abridgetoofar   (769 words)

  
 LoopNet - Main Street Mall, Street Retail, El Centro, CA
The Main Street Mall is a 21,810 square feet, two-story retail complex located at the corner of 5th & Main Streets in the heart of El Centro.
The mall was remodeled about 5 years ago including flooring, lighting and arrangement.
The mall is under new management with 2 incoming tenants from San Diego area, one a subcontractor and a financial service company.
www.loopnet.com /xNet/MainSite/Listing/Profile/ProfileSE.aspx?LID=14211268&linkcode=1070&sourcecode=1lww2t006a00001   (316 words)

  
 Northpinellas: In Seminole, mall is Main Street, heartbeat
Northpinellas: In Seminole, mall is Main Street, heartbeat
The city was born in its mall, which remains a community shopping center decidedly different from larger, newer malls.
The mall owners think they also might be close to a solution for its old theater inside the mall that serves as the management office.
www.sptimes.com /News/071801/NorthPinellas/In_Seminole__mall_is_.shtml   (1476 words)

  
 Main Place Mall
Although the mall continues to operate today, very little effort is made to keep the mall fully functional.
So bad is the Main Place Mall's conditions that it is one of many malls featured on the Dead Malls website.
The main challenge is for the Main Place Mall to gain a similar sense of renewal, and hopefully provide at least one shopping center for Buffalo residents in the central business district.
www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~bjbethel/savebuffalo-mainplacemall.htm   (750 words)

  
 Main Street Mall Antiques & Collectibles
The Main Street Mall Antiques is a multi-dealer antique shop located in Grain Valley, Missouri just south of I-70 at Exit 24 and East of Kansas City.
The Main Street Mall Antiques has a knowledgeable staff and many dealers who bring to us years of experience.
You'll love the friendly down home atmosphere of the Main Street Mall Antiques.
www.mainstreetmallantiques.com   (260 words)

  
 Legal Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Defendant, Main Street Mall Corp. ("Main street") was the owner of that Mall.
Consequently, Main Street attempted to close the mall and rebuild it.
United Retail filed a motion for a preliminary injunction preventing Main Street from closing the mall.
www.icsc.org /law/cases/2acase16.html   (160 words)

  
 Main street-style mall aims for Panoroma City Latinos - Socially Responsible Investing LLC's plan to remodel a shopping ...
Developers have seized upon the idea of turning shopping malls into open-air town centers as a way of attracting upscale, suburban shoppers who have grown tired of spending their spare time at a traditional enclosed mall.
In Mexico and South America, town plazas are an integral part of the community featuring street stalls filled with a variety of merchandise.
But SRI officials hope that the densely populated area (650,000 people live within a five-mile radius of the Panorama Mall) will be more than enough to support the project.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_30_21/ai_55427488   (937 words)

  
 Market Segments
The Center City Commission is the designated management entity for the Main Street Mall, a pedestrian/transit thoroughfare on Main Street from Exchange Avenue to Peabody Place.
While street vending is prohibited in most of Downtown, the CCC encourages approved vendors to sell food and merchandise on the Main Street Mall.
The cost of a Main Street Mall Encroachment Permit is $25 per week with an approved food or merchandise cart, or $50 per week for a permit and a CCC-owned cart.
www.downtownmemphis.com /domaine/work/work_mainstreetpermits.asp   (165 words)

  
 Swank shopping: Derby Street Shoppes are more Main Street than mall
The good news for Ann Gatnik's husband is that she doesn't feel compelled to go to the mall anymore.
The Derby Street Shoppes are a ‘‘lifestyle center.'' It is a concept industry experts define as an open-air center that mixes specialty stores, restaurants and entertainment with the look of an old downtown street scene that encourages browsing.
Gatnik, who was pushing her baby in a stroller, said she liked the design and that it is pedestrian-friendly, providing, of course, that it isn't raining or snowing.
www.patriotledger.com /articles/2004/11/24/life/life01.txt   (918 words)

  
 Maasin City, Southern Leyte - A Bravenet.com Forum
Please use it with discretion with your opinions or points of view - unbiased, independent and non-partisan.
main street mall might be an encouragement for improvement, pero ang problema sa maasin, kay pastilan kagamay sa lugar uy.
i looked at the 16 street mall in colorado website....nice, but like i said gamay ra ang room for improvement.
pub50.bravenet.com /forum/4226942271/fetch/528954   (78 words)

  
 Orlando Vacation - Shopping
The Florida Mall – This is the largest indoor mall in the Orlando area.
Mall at Millenia – This is the newest and most prestigious indoor mall in the Orlando area.
The mall is open Monday through Saturday, between 10:00AM and 9:30PM, and on Sundays, between 11:00AM and 7:00PM.
shopping.orlandovacation.com   (197 words)

  
 Green Left - Queen Street Mall threat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
BRISBANE -- City mall management renewed attacks on democratic rights in the Queen Street Mall on November 30 by trying to force removal of a display board which was part of a stall supporting sacked ABC reporter Pamela Bornhorst.
Otto Hoolhorst, spokesperson for the group, said, “Representatives of the mall management told us that we had to remove our display board because the mall management considered that it was not a `stall' or `part of a stall'”.
The Queen Street Mall is the main street of our city and the community-oriented information dissemination, which our display board represented, should have at least equal rights with commercial activity”, Hoolhorst told Green Left Weekly.
www.greenleft.org.au /1993/126/4846   (252 words)

  
 Smart Riverside Wireless Mall
The Downtown Wireless Mall provides free high-speed wireless access to the Main Street Pedestrian Mall, Riverside Market Place and the Riverside Airport, to anyone with a computer, laptop or PDA with wireless capabilities.
A "wireless mall" is an important first step in creating the atmosphere necessary to continue attracting groups to our downtown, hotels and convention center.
The coverage area of the project extends some eight blocks through the core of Downtown Riverside, along the Main Street Pedestrian Mall, from Third Street near the Convention Center in the north, to near 11th Street near the Riverside County Superior Court buildings in the south.
www.smartriverside.com /wireLessRiver.html   (731 words)

  
 Main Street Market Antiques   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Main Street Market Antique Mall is most often described by our customers as “my favorite antiques store.” We don’t know exactly why but suspect it’s our attention to detail and our goal to provide a fun atmosphere with unique merchandise that represents it’s era and is offered at an affordable price.
In the nearly 9 years we have been in business, we have found our desire to “make it a fun experience” keeps our customers returning for more.
We are not the largest mall, nor do we have a zillion dealers with everything you don’t want to see.
www.goantiques.com /members/mainstreetmarket   (183 words)

  
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Submission of requests to link to Main Street will be reviewed request by request, with no obligation to or commitment with regard to Main Street Douglas.
Main Street is designed to give local business an internet presences without direct competition from larger mass merchandisers or wholesalers.
No sites will be listed within Main Street which promote or advertise companies without a local interest or that sell products, or are a part of a large chain which sells products, which are promoted by local merchants within the site.
www.mainstreetdouglas.com /categories/linktous.htm   (218 words)

  
 Sweeney Art Gallery | Parking & Directions
The gallery is located on the Main Street Pedestrian Mall one block west of Orange Street.
The first signal light into University Avenue is the Main Street Pedestrian Mall.
The gallery is located on the right hand corner of University Avenue and Main Street.
sweeney.ucr.edu /gallery/info/directions.html   (199 words)

  
 AuctionBytes :: View topic - Main Street Mall Online
For variety malls, there is an Anything Goes Mall, where everything is $10 or less.
We will also soon be opening a fleamarket type of mall, where sellers can rent a "table" that will display up to 10 items at a time.
I like the idea of antiques, collectibles, and vintage items being part of a mall (and not the whole mall) with items being clearly identified as to age etc. That is what I thought was the deal with another place (cough, cough) I won't mention.
www.auctionbytes.com /forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=20255&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=   (965 words)

  
 GANDARIA MAIN STREET Mixed-Use Development - SkyscraperCity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Main Street "The New Jakarta Main Street City Lifestyle"
Celebrating Jakarta's historic role as a hub of economic growth for the country, Main Street is a dense urban mixed-use development, over 500,000 sq.m.
Take part in an endless adventure filled with worldly surprises, excitement and romance in the unique consortium of Main Streets of the wolrd found only at Main Street's conceptualized "living street" of residential condominiums, luxury hotel, an office, and exhilarating retail establishments.
www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=280599   (427 words)

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