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Birth of a Mall
by Jeremy at 9:35 am EDT, Apr 12, 2004

After more than six years of planning, Coastal Grand Myrtle Beach mall opened Wednesday to shoppers who bombarded its more than 1 million square feet of retail space, snapping up coupons and filling out every raffle ticket in sight.
"This is the essence of a great physical monument to the importance of tourism to the entire state," said the Governor.

At the mall's grand opening Wednesday were students who skipped school and workers who took the morning off. "They have stores I've never been in before. We're excited like little kids."

This is oddly fascinating.

RE: Birth of a Mall
by IconoclasT at 7:43 am EDT, Apr 13, 2004

Jeremy wrote:
] After more than six years of planning, Coastal Grand Myrtle
] Beach mall opened Wednesday to shoppers who bombarded its more
] than 1 million square feet of retail space, snapping up
] coupons and filling out every raffle ticket in sight.
]
] This is oddly fascinating.

Kind of unusual as malls overall have become less and less profitable in the last decade and the trend to build new ones is very much on the decline.

Birth of a Mall
by Rattle at 8:43 pm EDT, Apr 12, 2004

At the mall's grand opening Wednesday were students who skipped school and workers who took the morning off. "They have stores I've never been in before. We're excited like little kids."

People love their malls. I am fascinated with certain aspects of malls.