by veen

Though designed as an indoor mall, it will have plenty of brightly lit storefronts that shoppers can enter from the parking lot, darting in and out like fish sampling bait.

Funny thing about malls: when American malls grew exponentially in their haydays, it was thought that it would only be a matter of time before those malls would take over Europe as well, replacing the shops that occupy the city centers of nearly every European city. But Europe stayed Europe, and the city centre shops stayed. Now, the most recent trend in American malls is the style of mall that represents the open, city-center like feel, mimicking European cities:

Ironic, really.