When Did Malls Get Popular

Malls began springing up in every American suburb, along with large shopping-center-mall hybrids and everything in between. By 1960, just four years after Gruen’s first mall, there were 4,500 large shopping complexes in the United States

When did mall become popular?

The 1980s saw an unparalleled period of growth in the shopping center industry, with more than 16,000 centers built between 1980 and 1990. This was also the period when super-regional centers (malls larger than 800,000 square feet) became increasingly popular with shoppers.

When did they start building malls?

Enclosed malls in the U.S. The enclosed shopping center, which would eventually be known as the shopping mall, did not appear until the mid-1950s. One of the earliest examples was the Valley Fair Shopping Center in Appleton, Wisconsin, which opened in March 1955.