Talk:Northgate Station (shopping mall)

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Cf. Talk:Northgate and Northgate district of neighborhoods

Citation needed to distinguish from citation following: Verifiability is a goal, for accuracy and credibility. See "Style" section in Talk:Seattle, Citing sources. See same for "External Links" -> "Further Reading", per MoS --GoDot 07:16, 17 May 2006 (UTC), --05:34, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Summary: +, cit, so cl, rephrased; see Talk. Explication: See Talk:Seattle, Citing sources. Existing writing maintained as much as could.

After initial topic sentence, sentences reordered to put like together. Unique aspects or illustrations of the character of the topic have been added. A current list of anchor stores and total store count might be sufficiently interesting. What defines which are the anchor stores?

Northgate Mall is in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of the Northgate informal district, per citation which is valid per Wikipedia: # What sources to cite of WP:CITE. The local Bon Marché was the anchor engine for successfully launching Northgate Mall--not Macy's. The capital venture by The Bon was a crucial component.

"[A]partment buildings, retail and light commercial blocks" punctuation is intentional, per the sense of the sentence.

A References section, which contains only citations, helps readers to see at a glance the quality of the references used. (WP: Citing sources # "References" section in addition to "Notes").

--GoDot 05:34, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Summary: + ft anchor, + cit, + cite web, + links Shenk; order of heads at end, sort See also & Further r.; see Talk  Explication:  Add short full text re. "anchor for development of surrounding", add citations, add cite web template, add links in reference Shenk et al, order of headings at end as well as sort per WP:MoS at 7 Standard appendices. --GoDot 07:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

dubious tag
There is only one oldest mall in the country: The following claim to be the oldest malls: --Loodog 23:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Valley Fair Shopping Center (Appleton, Wisconsin 1954)
 * Southdale Center (Edina, Minnesota 1956)
 * Westminster Arcade (Providence, Rhode Island 1828)

Last I checked 1950 was first. Not sure why this is dubious.

Ownership/property management gap
As this article reads today, there appears to be a timeline flaw dealing with the ownership and/or management of the subject in question. In the 1950s it's Allied Stores who developed Northgate Mall (and presumably owning it as well), then we fast forward fifty-some years and out of left field it's Simon Properties calling the shots, without any sort of preamble as to how and when Simon came into the picture. – Monoblocks 14:40, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Not Covered On This Page
I think some of the important attributes of this entry haven't been covered.

This mall was an attempt at post-war city planning. The Mall included a hospital with associated doctor offices, a post office, a bank, grocery stores, drug stores, a hardware store, a nursery/garden store, as well as the single screen theater. Another innovation, at least for this area was that the stores remained open until 9:30pm on thursday nights, something that wasn't common at the time. Across the street on the north side of the mall there were apartment houses.

You could live at this post war suburban center, that had everything you would need. When this center was built, it wasn't common for families to have more than one car, so the advantage of having a shopping center within walking distance was important in drawing population to the area.

Bjskelly (talk) 03:27, 8 February 2012 (UTC)