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30-614: The mall opened on October 11, 1961, as the Cherry Hill Shopping Center , designed by architect Victor Gruen and built and managed by The Rouse Company . It was the first indoor, climate-controlled shopping center east of the Mississippi River in the United States. Rouse sold its shopping center portfolio to PREIT in 2003. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,248,347 square feet (115,975.2 m), placing it in

60-466: A cost of $ 30 million (equivalent to $ 306 million in 2023). Upon opening, it was the largest mall in the nation and is commonly referred to as the first enclosed and climate-controlled mall in the Eastern United States. The mall featured 90 stores, exotic birds, tropical plants, fountains and a movie theater. The mall layout was unique for the time. Unlike the dumbbell malls of the time,

90-574: A draftsman. After the success of his design for the Lederer leather-goods boutique on Fifth Avenue, he received further commissions for the design of shops, including Ciro’s on Fifth Avenue, Steckler’s on Broadway, Paris Decorators on the Bronx Concourse, and eleven branches of the clothing chain Grayson’s. In 1941 Gruen moved to Los Angeles. He was naturalized as a US citizen in 1943. In 1951, he founded

120-586: A new U.S. Postal Service office for the region, and historical ties to Cherry Hill Farm, which once occupied land opposite the current mall site, and various locations named for the farm, including the Cherry Hill Estates housing development and the Cherry Hill Inn. The Cherry Hill Mall opened on October 11, 1961, on the former site of the 16-acre (6.5 ha) George Jaus farm. It was designed by Victor Gruen and built and managed by The Rouse Company at

150-445: A staircase leading directly to the second floor into Strawbridge & Clothier . The northern wing featured the "Market Court", Food Fair , and Thrift Drug . There were also a Kresge's , Woolworth's , and two liquor stores. The mall changed through the years; 1973 brought a detached nine-story office tower. In 1977, a new two-story wing was built in the north part of the mall, following the closure and demolition of Pantry Pride and

180-452: Is regarded by many as a dramatically ruthless re-imagining of a former immigrant tenement neighborhood (Gans, O'Conner, The Hub). In 1956, Gruen drafted a comprehensive revitalization plan for the central business district of downtown Fort Worth, Texas , but most components of the plan were never realized. Dr. ETH Ing. Walid Jabri, the architect and structural engineer, designed the 55,000 square-meter business complex Centre Gefinor, which

210-493: The JCPenney wing featured General Nutrition Centers and several urban shops. In 2003, the mall was sold to PREIT . Under PREIT's ownership, Old Navy moved in early on, but the company had bigger plans for the mall. From the period of 2007 to 2009, the mall underwent a massive $ 220 million renovation that saw 228,000 square feet (21,200 m) of new retail added. Jim Ryan and his team at JPRA Architects were brought in to create

240-650: The Cherry Hill Police Department banned shoppers under the age of eighteen from entering the Cherry Hill Mall unaccompanied between the hours of 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. during the last week of December; this was in response to a series of fights that occurred at the mall five years earlier. Former Anchors The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War DLC map "The Pines" is based on the Cherry Hill Mall. Victor Gruen Victor David Gruen , born Viktor David Grünbaum (July 18, 1903 – February 14, 1980),

270-519: The Market Court. This wing was anchored by JCPenney . The 1990s brought more change to the mall, with the mall being remodeled once more, featuring a teal/gray color scheme and skylights. The mall received different fountains and the ornate Strawbridge's staircase was replaced with a simple escalator/stairs combination. By 1997, two distinct parts of the mall had formed: an upscale wing near Macy's featuring Banana Republic and Victoria's Secret , while

300-484: The architectural firm "Victor Gruen Associates", which was soon to become one of the major planning offices of that time. After the war, he designed the first suburban open-air shopping facility called Northland Mall near Detroit in 1954. After the success of the first project, he designed his best-known work for the owners of Dayton Department stores, the 800,000-square-foot (74,000 m ) Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota,

330-409: The backing of their families, they inaugurated the first The Container Store on July 1, 1978. The store introduced a new retailing category: home storage and organization. Kip Tindell and his wife joined the founding team the next year. In 1982, the company switched to a computerized management system, which almost drove the company to the ground. The Houston store opening in 1988 marked the start of

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360-576: The category killer of storage containers and home organization." In 2016, Kip Tindell stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Melissa Reiff. In 2021, Satish Malhotra replaced Melissa Reiff as CEO and president of the company. That year, the company reached the billion-dollar mark in revenue for the first time in its history and acquired Closet Works for $ 21.5 million. In 2024, Beyond Inc. (formerly Overstock Inc., owner of Bed Bath & Beyond since 2023) invested $ 40 million in The Container Store in

390-477: The company's booming sales. It opened its first location out of Texas in 1991 in Atlanta , Georgia , its first NY store in 2000, and its first LA store in 2006. In 1999, The Container Store bought one of its main suppliers, Elfa International , a Swedish corporation that specialized in shelving and storage units. The founders hired by the dozen but realized they also needed a strong company culture to maintain

420-517: The deal, The Container Store announced plans to open 29 more stores in the next five years. In 2013, the retailer was one of the hottest IPOs of 2013. However, according to Forbes , "the Container Store is a far cry from the 300 store potential investors were promised in the IPO." Since 2013, only 30 stores were added, or about 5 per year. The Container Store has not kept its promise to investors "to be

450-503: The first enclosed shopping mall in the country. Opening in 1956, Southdale was meant as the kernel of a full-fledged community. The mall was commercially successful, but the original design was never fully realized, as the intended apartment buildings, schools, medical facilities, park and lake were not built. Because he invented the modern mall, Malcolm Gladwell , writing in The New Yorker , suggested that "Victor Gruen may well have been

480-452: The frontage of Route 38 was also added, while the food court was also moved to the JCPenney wing, in a much smaller configuration than the mall's original food court but now features many eateries. The mall also added The Container Store and Crate & Barrel as outparcel retailers outside the mall's parking lot. Additionally, a three-story parking garage was constructed, while the whole mall

510-575: The future mayor of Vienna, and they became friends. As an architect he worked for Peter Behrens , and in 1933 opened his own architectural firm in Vienna. His firm specialized in remodeling of shops and apartments. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, he emigrated to the United States. Short and stout, he landed "with an architect's degree, eight dollars, and no English." Arriving in New York he changed his name to Gruen from Grünbaum and started to work as

540-571: The gradual transformation of the inner city into a pedestrian zone , of which only some parts have been implemented, including Kärntner Straße and Graben . In a speech in London in 1978, Gruen disavowed shopping mall developments as having "bastardized" his ideas: "I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments. They destroyed our cities." Gruen died on February 14, 1980. He was married four times and had two children. Gruen's book The Heart of our Cities: The Urban Crisis, Diagnosis and Cure

570-415: The mall started from the east anchor, Bamberger's , with a large "Delaware Mall" concourse to the west of it. About halfway along this concourse was an exit way that led back to a twin movie theatre and a children's amusement park with six rides and a mini roller coaster with a giant arcade. The center of the mall featured Cherry Court, a court with high ceilings, more tropical plants, fountains, parrots, plus

600-504: The mall’s new design. Following Strawbridge's closure after the Macy's takeover, the store was razed and backfilled to make way for the new Grand Court featuring 140,000 square feet (13,000 m) of new retail, along with a new 138,000 sq ft. Nordstrom anchor store which opened on March 27, 2009. Additionally, the mall added several exterior-facing restaurants in a new section known as Bistro Row. A large-scale entrance to an H&M store to

630-433: The most influential architect of the twentieth century." Until the mid-1970s, his office designed over fifty shopping malls in the United States. Gruen was the principal architect for a luxury housing development built on the 48-acre (190,000 m ) site of Boston , Massachusetts' former West End neighborhood. The first of several Gruen towers and plazas was completed in 1962. This development, known as Charles River Park

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660-476: The painting to Michael, resulting in a landmark case in the New York Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals ruled the basis of inter vivos gifts, including the plaintiff having the burden of proof to a clear and convincing standard that the chattel was a gift and the required elements of a gift. Kemija Gruen claimed that if the painting was to be given after death, even if such arrangement

690-645: The spirit and attractiveness of their stores. The company started giving 235 hours of training time to its new salespeople, ten times the industry average. By the early 2000s, The Container Store had became a regular recipient of the Best Company to Work For in America award delivered by Fortune . In July 2007, The Container Store sold a majority stake of the company to the private equity firm based in Los Angeles Leonard Green & Partners . Following

720-461: The top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey . It is currently anchored by JCPenney , Macy's , and Nordstrom . The farm that was near the site of the Cherry Hill Mall is widely held to be the source of the 1962 renaming of what had been called Delaware Township to its current name of Cherry Hill Township. The town was named Cherry Hill in a voter referendum due to the development of

750-557: Was a major influence on Walt Disney 's city planning ambitions and his ideas for the original EPCOT . In 1963, on his 21st birthday, his son New York attorney Michael S. Gruen (then a Harvard undergraduate) was given a painting "Schloss Kammer am Attersee II" by Gustav Klimt . While ownership of the painting was given to his son in 1963, the elder Gruen maintained a life estate on the chattel and continued to hang it in his living room and even paid for insurance and repairs. Upon Gruen's death in 1980, his widow, Kemija, refused to surrender

780-688: Was also the designer of the first outdoor pedestrian mall in the United States , the Kalamazoo Mall . Victor Gruen was born on July 18, 1903, in a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna , Austria. He studied architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . A committed socialist , from 1926 until 1934 he ran the "political cabaret at the Naschmarkt "-theatre. At that time he came to know Felix Slavik ,

810-399: Was an Austrian-American architect best known as a pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States. He is also noted for his urban revitalization proposals, described in his writings and applied in master plans such as for Fort Worth , Texas (1955), Kalamazoo , Michigan (1958) and Fresno , California (1965). An advocate of prioritizing pedestrians over cars in urban cores, he

840-632: Was built in the late 1960s on Rue Clémenceau in Beirut , Lebanon for which Victor Gruen designed the complete commercial area on the ground floor and the mezzanine after the completion of the skeleton. Gruen also designed the Greengate Mall in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which opened in 1965, as well as the Lakehurst Mall in 1971 for Waukegan, Illinois . In 1968, he returned to Vienna, where he engaged in

870-453: Was made years earlier, then the will, not a letter, would be instructive as to disposition. Michael Gruen was eventually awarded $ 2.5 million. The Container Store The Container Store Group, Inc. is an American specialty retail chain which offers storage and organization products, and custom closets. The Container Store was founded in Dallas by Garrett Boone and John Mullen. With

900-425: Was redesigned with a contemporary marble-and-wood color scheme. The new changes created a new tenant mix similar to King of Prussia . The mall today consists of many upscale stores in a newly renovated interior and exterior. Cherry Hill Mall has completely changed its entire exterior and interior, bringing many high-end stores, new restaurants, and a revitalizing theme running throughout the center. In December 2022,

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