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BACKSTORY: The Laurel Mall is a one level mall located in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. From Clothing to Beauty, Healthcare to Recreation, there’s something for everyone at The Laurel Mall. *Underground Parking Garage *FREE WiFi *Soft Seating Areas and Phone Charging Stations throughout the Mall *1200 sq. ft. Play Zone Area for kids under 42″. The Laurel Mall is Your Place for Shopping & Leisure. (SOURCE: About: Laurel Mall)

BACKSTORY: A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term mall originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, it began to be used as a generic term for the large enclosed shopping centers that were becoming increasingly commonplace.^[1]^[2] In the United Kingdom and other countries, shopping malls may be called shopping centres.

In recent decades, malls have declined considerably in North America, partly due to the retail apocalypse, particularly in subprime locations, and some have closed and become so-called “dead malls“.^[3] Successful exceptions have added entertainment and experiential features, added big-box stores as anchors, or converted to other specialized shopping center formats such as power centers, lifestyle centers, factory outlet centers, and festival marketplaces.^[4] In Canada, shopping centres have frequently been replaced with mixed-use high-rise communities.^[5] In many European countries and Asian countries, shopping malls continue to grow and thrive.^[6]

In the United States, Persian Gulf countries, and India, the term shopping mall is usually applied to enclosed retail structures (and is generally abbreviated to simply mall), while shopping center usually refers to open-air retail complexes; both types of facilities usually have large parking lots, face major traffic arterials, and have few pedestrian connections to surrounding neighborhoods.^[7] Outside of North America, the terms shopping precinct and shopping arcade are also used.

In the UK, such complexes are considered shopping centres; however, shopping centre covers many more sizes and types of centers than the North American mall. Other countries follow UK usage. In Canadian English, and often in Australia and New Zealand, the term mall may be used informally but shopping centre or merely centre will feature in the name of the complex (such as Toronto Eaton Centre). The term mall is less-commonly a part of the name of the complex.^{[original research?]}

The International Council of Shopping Centers, based in New York City, classifies two types of shopping centers as malls: regional malls and super regional malls. A regional mall, per the International Council of Shopping Centers, is a shopping mall with 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m²) to 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m²) gross leasable area with at least two anchor stores.^[8] A super-regional mall, per the International Council of Shopping Centers, is a shopping mall with over 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m²) of gross leasable area, three or more anchors, mass merchant, more variety, fashion apparel, and serves as the dominant shopping venue for the region (25 miles or 40 km) in which it is located.^[8] Not classified as malls are smaller formats such as strip malls and neighborhood shopping centers, and specialized formats such as power centers, festival marketplaces, and outlet centers.^[4]

A shopping property management firm is a company that specializes in owning and managing shopping malls. Most shopping property management firms own at least 20 malls. Some firms use a similar naming scheme for most of their malls; for example, Mills Corporation puts “Mills” in most of its mall names and SM Prime Holdings of the Philippines puts “SM” in all of its malls, as well as anchor stores such as The SM Store, SM Appliance Center, SM Hypermarket, SM Cinema, and SM Supermarket. In the UK, The Mall Fund changes the name of any center it buys to “The Mall (location)”, using its pink-M logo; when it sells a mall the center reverts to its own name and branding, such as the Ashley Centre in Epsom.^[56] Similarly, following its rebranding from Capital Shopping Centres, intu Properties renamed many of its centres to “intu (name/location)” (such as intu Lakeside); again, malls removed from the network revert to their own brand (see for instance The Glades in Bromley). (SOURCE: Wikipedia)