The Daily Mall Reader: Winrock Center Redevelopment
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"Winrock's full-circle face lift"
Tired of being called "Windy-Rock," the open-air shopping center got walled-off and air-conditioned in 1975, one of many makeovers since it opened in 1961. But now those walls are coming down.
Tired of being called "Windy-Rock," the open-air shopping center got walled-off and air-conditioned in 1975, one of many makeovers since it opened in 1961. But now those walls are coming down.
(Excerpt) Winrock Center has gone through a multitude of phases and changes in its 41 years. Its next big transformation is set to begin soon, with a wrecking ball.Winrock's owners plan to turn the state's third-largest mall into an open-air, urban-feeling shopping and office complex.
"This is a new trend that, based on consumer demand, we're moving toward," said Shelton Weeks, general manager of the 900,000-square-foot Albuquerque shopping center. "We're moving toward what we would call a new urbanism or what we call a live-work-play environment."
The new "The Avenue-Winrock" will be an open-air center reminiscent of a downtown shopping district. It will have two "avenues" splitting it in three quadrants. At their axis will be a remodeled Dillard's department store.
Read the full article here.
Labels: Albuquerque, Daily Mall Reader, New Mexico, Redevelopment, Winrock
posted by Keith @ 7/02/2007
1 Comments:
Guess that won't be happening now that there is one across the street. Too bad so sad.
If Victory Gruen were to read about this "new urban center" crap I am sure he would be rolling around in his grave. I know I am and I don't even have one!
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