Kalamazoo Mall
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kalamazoo-mall-276-3422496
title:
Kalamazoo Mall
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The Kalamazoo Mall, the first outdoor pedestrian shopping mall in the United States, is a section of Burdick Street in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. Built for $60,000 and opened in 1959, the pedestrian mall became the first of several hundred built in the United States. The bold effort to make a downtown street car-free as a spur to urban vitality and a defense against suburbanization drew national attention to Kalamazoo, which was dubbed "Mall City". Initially, two blocks of Burdick Street were
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First outdoor pedestrian shopping mall in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_Mall
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2024-03-11T22:21:24Z
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