Festival marketplace
A festival marketplace is a shopping market in the United States which uses a mix of local tenants instead of regional or national chain stores, shop stalls and common areas to energize the space, and uncomplicated architectural ornaments to highlight the goods.[1] Festival marketplaces were a leading strategy for revitalization of downtowns in American cities during the 1970s and 1980s.
List of festival marketplaces
[edit]Malls that are italicized are defunct. Malls with an asterisk (*) are still in operation as a shopping center, but no longer as a festival marketplace.
- Aloha Tower Marketplace* — Honolulu, Hawaii
- Arizona Center* — Phoenix, Arizona
- Bandana Square — Saint Paul, Minnesota[2]
- The Brokerage – Baltimore, Maryland
- Bayside Marketplace — Miami, Florida
- Broadway Market – Baltimore, Maryland
- Cambridgeside Galleria — Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Canalside — Buffalo, New York
- Catfish Town — Baton Rouge, Louisiana[3]
- Church Street Station Exchange — Orlando, Florida[4]
- The Continent — Columbus, Ohio[5]
- Cray Plaza — Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Faneuil Hall Marketplace — Boston, Massachusetts
- Festival Market — Lexington, Kentucky
- Fountain Square — Nashville, Tennessee[6]
- Ghirardelli Square — San Francisco, California
- Harborplace — Baltimore, Maryland[7]
- The Shoppes at Harbour Island - Tampa, Florida[8]
- The Fishmarket – Baltimore, Maryland
- Harbourside Shopping Centre – Sydney, Australia
- Jack London Square — Oakland, California
- Jackson Brewery — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jacksonville Landing — Jacksonville, Florida
- McCamly Place – Battle Creek, Michigan[9]
- Mercado Mediterranean Shopping Village — Orlando, Florida[10]
- Navy Pier — Chicago, Illinois
- Old Post Office Pavilion[11] — Washington, D.C.[12]
- Pier 39 — San Francisco, California
- Portside Festival Marketplace — Toledo, Ohio[13]
- The Outlet Collection at Riverwalk* — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Rainbow Centre Factory Outlet – Niagara Falls, New York
- The Shops at National Place – Washington, D.C.
- 6th Street Marketplace — Richmond, Virginia[14]
- South Street Seaport Festival Marketplace (Pier 17 Pavilion[15] and Fulton Market Building)— Manhattan, New York City
- Saint Anthony Main — Minneapolis, Minnesota[16]
- St. Louis Union Station — St. Louis, Missouri[17]
- Station Square — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Seminole Paradise – Hollywood, Florida
- Tower City Center — Cleveland, Ohio
- Trolley Square — Salt Lake City, Utah[18][19]
- Underground Atlanta — Atlanta, Georgia[20]
- Union Station — Indianapolis, Indiana[21]
- Union Station — Washington, D.C.
- Water Street Pavilion — Flint, Michigan[22]
- Waterside Festival Marketplace — Norfolk, Virginia
- West End Marketplace — Dallas, Texas[23]
- Westfield Horton Plaza — San Diego, California
- Yamhill Marketplace - Portland, Oregon[24]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Maitland, Barry (1990). The New Architecture of the Retail Mall. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. pp. 25–26. ISBN 1854548158.
- ↑ Jossi, Frank (February 2, 2012). "Bandana Square in St. Paul". Finance & Commerce. Minneapolis, MN – via NewsBank.
- ↑ McRae, Sharon (June 29, 1986). "Catfish Town two years old". The Advocate. Baton Rouge, LA – via NewsBank.
- ↑ "Jacksonville's Landing will be tested by time". Tampa Bay Times. June 22, 1987 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
- ↑ "Curious Cbus: What Was the Continent Like in Its Heyday?". 15 May 2017.
- ↑ Richard Locker (September 6, 1987). "Nashville development uses private funds for its boom". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, TN – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Baltimore Harborplace Redevelopment Project To Start in Fall 2026". CBS News. August 2025. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Adaptive Reuse: Tampa's Shoppes at Harbour Island". TheJaxsonmag. February 28, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2026.
- ↑ "McCamly not a threat to area malls". The Kalamazoo Gazette. April 6, 1986 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
- ↑ Denise L. Smith (June 6, 1988). "Mercado seeks out more residents". The Orlando Sentinel – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "The Old Post Office Pavilion Pavilion". WDGarch. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
- ↑ Margaret Webb Pressler (September 6, 1994). "Injecting new life into the Old Post Office". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
- ↑ Marx, Paul (2008). Jim Rouse: Capitalist/Idealist. University Press of America. p. 192. ISBN 978-0761839446.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Flegenheimer, Matt (2013-09-10). "Sadness, and Bargains, as Mall at South Street Seaport Shuts Down". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-05-28; Otis, Ginger Adams; Sit, Ryan (September 9, 2013). "Pier 17 saying goodbye to mom-and-pop stores, hello to upscale shops". New York Daily News. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ↑ Mack, Linda (August 20, 2002). "Architect Benjamin Thompson remembered for St. Paul legacy - The St. Paul native's artistic conception of a lush, forested Mississippi River Valley spurred the city's return to the riverfront". Star Tribune. "Thompson designed Minneapolis' first festival marketplace , the first part of St. Anthony Main in the early 1980s."
- ↑ Ray Hartmann (October 21, 2011). "St. Louis Needs a New Direction for Union Station". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
- ↑ Rolando, Joe (October 9, 1987). "Completion of Trolley renovation expected in November". Salt Lake Tribune – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Campbell, Robert (November 18, 1986). "The man who brought you the marketplace". Boston Globe – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Underground Atlanta | Downtown Atlanta, GA". www.atlantadowntown.com. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ↑ Ledbetter, Erik. "Rethinking Adaptive Reuse, or, How Not to Save a Great Urban Terminal". Railway Preservation News. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
- ↑ Blueprints Magazine Spring 1988 cover Archived 2007-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Brown, Steve (February 8, 2014). "Downtown Dallas' historic West End Marketplace eyed by developers for new hotel". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
- ↑ "After the festival is over" (PDF). PublicMarketDevelopment.
