so what would a modern big box mall look like plopped into the densest region on the continent? like you walked into a j.g. ballard novel if you ask me!  :laugh:

 

well yr about to find out -- lets go shopping at the new 18 acre gateway center at bronx terminal market  :mrgreen:

 

http://www.gatewaycenterbtm.com/

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/nyregion/05metjournal.html

 

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090503/SMALLBIZ/305039980

 

ps -- brooklyn aside, apparently bronx folks have noticed that the design is the same as

dadeland station in miami or SoDo complex in orlando, anybody know?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the deegan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

something else new nearby

 

 

 

at the south end of gateway center is the renovated deco bronx terminal market (1935)

 

 

well there ya go -- the cousin of brooklyn’s gateway center brings big box mall shopping

to the south bronx, the city’s most under-retailed-borough

 

finally, a few other views from around this neighborhood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*** thats all folks!  :wink: ***

The Center looks so much nicer than that POS highway. I thought I was going to lose a tire on that.

thats not bad considering the major deegan expressway was built in 1956 and probably hasnt been touched much since!

so what would a modern big box mall look like plopped into the densest region on the continent? like you walked into a j.g. ballard novel if you ask me!  :laugh:

 

well yr about to find out -- lets go shopping at the new 18 acre gateway center at bronx terminal market  O0

 

http://www.gatewaycenterbtm.com/

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/nyregion/05metjournal.html

 

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090503/SMALLBIZ/305039980

 

ps -- brooklyn aside, apparently bronx folks have noticed that the design is the same as

dadeland station in miami or SoDo complex in orlando, anybody know?

 

 

It's also similar to Beverly Connection in LA.  its in the BX.  Its ok.

 

^Agreed.  It's not bad, especially for the area it's in.

except that one is across the street from a real mall, the beverly center, which it spun off from -- just like strip malls did around ohio and most other real malls.

 

hmm, in that sense maybe yankee stadium can be considered the real mall of the bronx? or wait, gateway cnter could be considered the real mall that spun off from the hub neighborhood? waaa whatever lol!

^Agreed. It's not bad, especially for the area it's in.

 

actually its structure is more like the beverly center although of course it has stores more like the beverly connection.

here's dadeland, the first major vertical big-box power center mall, seems like bronx gateway?:

 

 

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2008-aug-jackson-square-controversy-brewing

 

 

and here is sodo in orlando, looks like it has condos and other things too, doesnt look like bx gateway:

 

 

http://friedmandevelopers.com/?cat=1

 

 

 

The box stores are like A-Ho**s...everyone has one!

^ lol i know -- but the poorest county in the usa didnt until recently! also, a 6 level vertical big box mall seems to be quite unusual dont you think?

Co-Op City had big-box stores (that trashy JC Penney's) but this one looks more...Atlantic Yards...

there is the old alexanders/caldor on fordham rd too, and best buy is up there, forgot about those, but i meant modern bb mall.

 

i think that its a multileveled big box mall is whats freaking me out, big boxers arent just for the edge of town or for strip malls around traditional malls anymore.

 

and yes brooklyns ratner gateway center is a cousin to this one.