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A lot of the malls and shopping centers being mentioned here may indeed have an influx of international visitors but not the cachet of chic upscale elegance to which the OP is alluding. In Florida, the only shopping center that would seem to meet that criteria is Bal Harbour (I don't include upscale shopping districts such as Worth Ave, Lincoln Rd, St Armand's Circle or 5th St South as they are not planned developments per se). Developments that meet this criteria seem to be concentrated in Miami and Los Angeles (weather no doubt being a factor).
If you want to expand the list to include the country's most upscale and cosmopolitan shopping districts, you can include 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue in NYC, Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, Union Square in San Francisco, Turtle Creek and Highland Park Village in Dallas and Michigan Ave in Chicago.
Exactly, a giant mall in PA with a really big Sears and a really big Abercrombie, etc. etc. isn't what the OP was after.
A lot of the malls and shopping centers being mentioned here may indeed have an influx of international visitors but not the cachet of chic upscale elegance to which the OP is alluding. In Florida, the only shopping center that would seem to meet that criteria is Bal Harbour (I don't include upscale shopping districts such as Worth Ave, Lincoln Rd, St Armand's Circle or 5th St South as they are not planned developments per se). Developments that meet this criteria seem to be concentrated in Miami and Los Angeles (weather no doubt being a factor).
If you want to expand the list to include the country's most upscale and cosmopolitan shopping districts, you can include 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue in NYC, Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, Union Square in San Francisco, Turtle Creek and Highland Park Village in Dallas and Michigan Ave in Chicago.
Oh because the OP specifically mentioned Aventura which would easily allow for Millenia to be considered as well.
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Originally Posted by bballniket
List the malls or shopping centers in the US that give off an intensely cosmopolitan vibe (i.e. patrons from all over the world, patrons who are relatively wealthy, presence of international designers, many different languages spoken, etc.)
My top five are:
1. Tysons Corner Center (McLean, Virginia)
2. Garden State Plaza (Paramus, New Jersey)
3. South Coast Plaza (Costa Mesa, California)
4. Westfield San Francisco Centre (San Francisco, California) 5. Aventura Mall (Aventura, Florida)
hmm no one else has mentioned either the Garden State Plaza or Short Hills Mall in NJ..
Short Hills Mall, at least to me, is more like Roosevelt Field then the Americana. At least the way it feels. The Americana reminds me of Rodeo Drive on the East Coast.
I'd even throw in the Outlets if were talking international visitors.
Oddly the Europeans love our outlet stores; I hear many over here, especially from England making time to get to outlets, even if only here for a few days on business.
Oh because the OP specifically mentioned Aventura which would easily allow for Millenia to be considered as well.
Yeah, I get your point. Based on my own interpretation of the OP's criteria, I would not include Aventura. Nice mall, but not world-class by any means.
A lot of the malls and shopping centers being mentioned here may indeed have an influx of international visitors but not the cachet of chic upscale elegance to which the OP is alluding. In Florida, the only shopping center that would seem to meet that criteria is Bal Harbour (I don't include upscale shopping districts such as Worth Ave, Lincoln Rd, St Armand's Circle or 5th St South as they are not planned developments per se). Developments that meet this criteria seem to be concentrated in Miami and Los Angeles (weather no doubt being a factor).
If you want to expand the list to include the country's most upscale and cosmopolitan shopping districts, you can include 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue in NYC, Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, Union Square in San Francisco, Turtle Creek and Highland Park Village in Dallas and Michigan Ave in Chicago.
Oddly the Europeans love our outlet stores; I hear many over here, especially from England making time to get to outlets, even if only here for a few days on business.
Because they're not use to having those out there. What we Americans(especially the uppity urbanite Americans) tend to find to tacky or Average here in America, they(International Tourist) probably find some of those same things to be different, especially to what they're use to.
Coach
Burberry
Gucci
Neiman Marcus
Nordstrom
Ralph Lauren
Steve Madden
Tiffany & Co.
etc.
It definitley belongs in this conversation.
You left out Bloomingdale's.
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