Is it really too much to consider the possibility you might want to expand this center without tearing down functional buildings and thus would have built an extensible grid. There are anchors at the end of the internal streets, foreclosing opportunities to extend the internal grid onto the surface parking. A finite space without any opportunity for discovery or serendipity, I really cannot accidentally leave the site.Parking (and transit)) far from the shops, the transit center is about 1000 feet (almost 1/4 mile) from the first store.This design has many of the worst features of a shopping mall: While there is a covered section, it is not enclosed, and thus remains cold. I do not understand the appeal of outdoor shopping in February in Minnesota. Cedar Grove Parking Garage is a few short steps (the Transit Center is farther away) The food court has a wide variety of specialty vendors A street through the center enters a covered but not climate controlled section. It would be more effective if they named the streets. Twin Cities Premium Outlets, a plaza in the snow. The site apparently has 3000 parking spaces (doesn’t look like it). The Google maps shows a fairly full surface parking lot (though the top deck of the “garage” (you know, they meant “ramp”, even though the sign says “Garage” and the map says “Deck”) was largely empty. I suppose the traffic is suppressed since this was a Sunday in February, though the stores were all open, and the temperature was above average. As the first new mall in 13 years, it represents the last gasp of traditional bricks and mortar retail before the full onslaught of online shopping decimates what is left. With a “race track” design, the expectation is users will flow through the center in a circular pattern and return where they started, shopping both sides of the “street” simultaneously. Located in Eagan, on the Red Line (Cedar Grove Station), it is just a short transit hop from the Mall of America, and a shorter drive, at the intersection of Cedar Avenue (Highway 77) and Sibley Memorial Highway (Highway 13). Aerial of Twin Cities Premiums Outlets from Google Maps. While the center has recently encountered some controversy about the atrocious treatment of black shoppers, this post is about the design (recognizing its isolating design and nature as private property may have some relationship about how shop managers and police think about the presence of others). Last year, to much fanfare, Twin Cities Premium Outlets were opened.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |