It's smaller than the old Arndale in Manchester, and only one storey. But yes, i'd say there were easily 150 walkers and 100 exercisers.

Plus Dana you guys don't have the room to build one, well at least you are smart enough not to give up that much room of prime property to build one.

Malls in the UK are a surprising size, Merc, but usually on several floors.

I guess that's what I mean really. There doesn't seem to be a lot of floorspace, most of the time you're on escalators:P


Smaller than the old Arndale? God. Can't imagine people flocking to the Arndale for their daily exercise lol!

See, now I just automatically assumed thatthe Merkins wuold have bigger malls :)

They maybe do, just not in Ann Arbor. Apparently a full circuit -including up and down all the alleys- is just under a mile.

I've done Bluewater as a shopper/ walker and as a shopper Milton Keynes, Meadowhall and the daddy of them all, the Metro Centre.

But the real biggies are few and far between I admit.

Mum & Dad were so impressed by the malls in Las Vegas. Or Hollywood, the pictures got a bit mixed up in my head after a while. They went every day to one that had a faux thunderstorm - with rain! not all that amazing for Brits, used to shopping in the rain. Not to shop, just to enjoy the spectacle. Also, mall walking would really suit my Dad, as following his knee replacement he is nowhere near as spritely. This is a man who used to run marathons. Cause and effect maybe - his former running partner had both replaced.

Read and learn, LabRat! Then again, being a slip of a thing you probably don't put the same pressure on as a 13 stone man.

King of Prussia (pdf directory) is the big mall in our area. It's 2 buildings; 1 is 2 levels the, the other is 3. There are quite a few redundant stores although I noticed this year a few have closed.
My sister and I go at least once together to do our xmas shopping every year... this year with 1 year old babies in backpacks. Talk about exercise...

Even I have heard of the King of Prussia Mall. Mostly because it has its own exit. It's a landmark when heading North.

One of the biggies around here is Tysons Corner. There are actually 2 malls next to each other there. The big commoners mall, and the smaller rich people mall.

This is a map of the commoners mall. It's 2 floors.

Thinking ... own exit? Not really. Of course I never take toll roads to get to it, but I thought that exit was still considered Valley Forge ...

King of Prussia is the largest naturally occurring mall in the United States. The Mall of America does have more square footage, but they had to cheat by including things like a full-scale amusement park.

How can something like a mall be "naturally occurring," you ask? By starting as a much smaller, outdoor retail space, really a bunch of strip centers pasted together, and over the years expanding and expanding and enclosing some of the outdoor bits. Frankly, I don't recognize most of the mall complex these days, do love the crystal palace Bloomingdales' entrance, and miss some of the labyrinthine elements of the old Plaza building, that got straightened out in the last reconstruction. Remember having to go back and around and under to get to that Viking Hut store, or whatever it was that had the Scandanavian Doo-Dads? I also miss the Conrans.

Holy guacamole!
Now that's a Mall worth visiting!

Actually, I have a feeling my bro and SIL made a stop-off there one year. She takes an empty suitcase on holiday just to fill with shopping. Good luck to her - she earns the money so why not.

The trick is to shop and then buy a new suitcase.

Nah, she has enough by now.
She just puts her normal suitcace inside a larger one on the way out.

The Metrocentre mall in/near Newcastle has an amusement park in it. Supposedly the biggest mall/shopping center in Europe.

Lawrence doesn't have a mall, so folks are stuck doing laps at the Super Target.