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Southdale Mall to Undergo Major Expansion

EDINA, MN-The nation's oldest mall is also going

By Jim McCartney | Updated on December 17, 2000

EDINA, MN-Southdale, reputedly the nation’s first enclosed mall, isbuilding a 120,000-sf addition to house a newstadium-style movie theater and two sit-downrestaurants; key ingredients in what amounts to acomplete makeover.The Edina, MN-based shopping center has won cityapprovals to add the new wing. Meanwhile, the mall hasplans to create a 40,000-sf wing on its thirdlevel with stores that appeal to the “Generation Y”crowd kids between the ages of six and 21 years old,says Christopher Cummins, the general manager of themall.

Inspiration for the Generation Y theme is GlendaleGalleria, a regional mall in California that in Juneopened a Generation Y-oriented retail district calledThe Zone. It features such retailers HotTopic, Cat Walk, Van’s and Juxtapose, as well as “E Station,” a place for kids to hang out and “Channel Z,” a network of interactive video screens that alsohave teenage-oriented programming. So far, Southdalehas signed a shoe retailer called Journeys Shoes, butis not ready to announce other retailers for thisarea.

“We felt we need to be re-energized,” Cummins says.Generation Y is comprised of some 60 million Americansborn between 1979 and 1994, says Annette Bethers,senior marketing director of Glendale Galleria, the1.47 million sf mall that is managed byDonahue Schriber. Market research showed that theseshoppers on average each spend from $2,700 to $3,000 ayear and rated going to Glendale Galleria as one oftheir favorite pastimes.

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