CenterBuild Roundtable

Published Wednesday, March 01, 2000

SCW: James Heller, half of the enclosed malls opening in the U.S. in 1999 were designed by KA Inc. Architecture. What do you think was the big story during '99 in the shopping center industry and why? James Heller: From our viewpoint, a big change is the way department stores now permit certain design changes. In the past, they controlled the design of the centers. But in each of the centers that we were involved in during 1999, we broke rules that five or 10 years ago the department stores would not have let us break. To us, ...

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