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Originally Posted by Crawford
The NJ project is actually finishing up and opening in a few months.
I'll be contrarian here and bet this project will be pretty successful. It's more like a gigantic amusement park than a typical mall. I assume the FL proposal is similar to the NJ project.
Retailers seem to love the project, BTW. They've lured Saks and all the other high end department stores, as well as a number of intl retailers building their first stores in the U.S. It will have a direct train to Manhattan.
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I completely agree with you. This looks like an amusement park where you can also be shopping (a concept popular with families, no doubt), and an attractive one at that. Note that in the article, they're referring to it as a "theme park" and "an alternative to Disney World".
We on SSP may not like the idea from an urbanistic point of view, but that's got nothing to do with the fact it's almost certainly going to be successful.