First outdoor pedestrian shopping mall in the United States
South end of Kalamazoo Mall at Michigan Avenue
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".[1]
Initially, two blocks of Burdick Street were closed; a third block was added the following year and a fourth in 1975.[1] In 1998, the southern two blocks were reopened to auto traffic,[2] albeit a single southbound lane only.
The two blocks of Burdick from Eleanor Street to W. Michigan Avenue are designated North Kalamazoo Mall; the two blocks south of W. Michigan to W. Lovell Street, South Kalamazoo Mall.
^ abRzepczynski, Kris (2009-12-02). "From Wheels to Heels: The Mall City". Kalamazoo Public Library. Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
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