Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shepherd of the flock in tidy, suburban Woodford, just outside Manchester, the slim, silver-haired Rev. Philip St. John (rhymes with Injun) Wilson Ross, Cambridge '26, was irreproachable. On call to his parishioners for religious consolation at any hour, he was also arch and sporting at children's church picnics, full of charm at meetings of the church mothers, and a lively, intelligent man of the world with the businessmen of the local vestry. There were those, of course, whose evil tongues sought mischief in gossip over the frequent calls paid by the Rev. Mr. Ross on Wealthy...
...shopping-center financial consultant, promoter and part-owner of Mondawmin, calls their "personal, informal, carnival atmosphere." Frequently screened from the sight, sound and smell of traffic, their malls and walkways are bright with flowers, fountains, tropical birds. At Southdale the 82-acre shopping zone is insulated from suburban Minneapolis by a 240-acre office belt and a 176-acre lakefront residential section. Like Detroit's fabulously successful Northland center (first-year gross: $88 million), a number of the new projects are decked with sculpture and mosaics...
...pleasure-domes-with-parking affecting downtown business? In many cities, say downtown merchants, sales are higher than ever. Despite some 15 major shopping centers around Houston, business-district sales last year were 7% above 1954 levels. Says the Detroit Retail Merchants Association's James Dallavo: "Suburban shopping centers have made downtown merchants better promoters and salesmen, with emphasis on wider assortment and price range." Most downtown store owners who open shopping-center branches say that they are thus able to attract new customers, most of whom inevitably visit the parent store. In the fight for the shopper...
...Shortly before the opening last month of Houston's $20 million Gulfgate, biggest shopping center in the South (anticipated first-year gross: $60 million), three floors of a four-story addition were completed at Foley Brothers, the only major Houston department store that has not opened a single suburban branch. Allied Stores Corp., which owns 32 department stores (Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., New York's Stern Bros.) in Eastern cities, is spending $250 million for expansion of shopping-center branches. Allied is also investing $3 in its downtown facilities for every $1 it is putting into...
...shopping center but can estimate in advance the revenue per sq. ft. It took him seven years and 4,000 separate mathematical calculations to decide on the exact location of Mondawmin, where the anticipated revenue is $65 per sq. ft. Rouse not only has plans for two huge new suburban shopping centers in Maryland, but will soon reverse his tried and true procedure by building two downtown centers, in Easton, Md. and Charlotte, N.C., to augment central shopping districts that have never been able to capture their full potential trade volume...