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

Italicized mall names indicate that they are defunct or abandoned.

• Aloha Tower Marketplace — Honolulu, Hawaii
• Arizona Center — Phoenix, Arizona
• Bandana Square — Saint Paul, Minnesota ^[2]
• 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]
• Shoppes at Harbour Island - Tampa, Florida ^[8]
• 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 — Washington, D.C. ^[11]
• Pier 39 — San Francisco, California
• Portside Marketplace — Toledo, Ohio ^[12]
• Riverwalk Outlets — New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Shops at National Place – Washington, D.C.
• 6th Street Marketplace — Richmond, Virginia ^[13]
• South Street Seaport Festival Marketplace (Pier 17 Pavilion ^[14] and Fulton Market Building)— Manhattan, New York City
• Saint Anthony Main — Minneapolis, Minnesota ^[15]
• Union Station Mall — St. Louis, Missouri ^[16]
• Station Square — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Tower City Center — Cleveland, Ohio
• Trolley Square — Salt Lake City, Utah ^{[17] [18]}
• Underground Atlanta — Atlanta, Georgia
• Union Station — Indianapolis, Indiana ^[19]
• Union Station — Washington, D.C.
• Water Street Pavilion — Flint, Michigan ^[20]
• Waterside District — Norfolk, Virginia
• West End Marketplace — Dallas, Texas ^[21]
• Westfield Horton Plaza — San Diego, California

See also

• Lifestyle center (retail)

References

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3. McRae, Sharon (June 29, 1986). "Catfish Town two years old". The Advocate. Baton Rouge, LA – via NewsBank.
4. "Jacksonville's Landing will be tested by time". Tampa Bay Times. June 22, 1987 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
5. "Curious Cbus: What Was the Continent Like in Its Heyday?". 15 May 2017.
6. Richard Locker (September 6, 1987). "Nashville development uses private funds for its boom". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, TN – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Baltimore Harborplace Redevelopment Project To Start in Fall 2026". CBS News. August 2025. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
8. "Adaptive Reuse: Tampa's Shoppes at Harbour Island". TheJaxsonmag. February 28, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2026.
9. "McCamly not a threat to area malls". The Kalamazoo Gazette. April 6, 1986 – via Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
10. Denise L. Smith (June 6, 1988). "Mercado seeks out more residents". The Orlando Sentinel– via Newspapers.com.
11. Margaret Webb Pressler (September 6, 1994). "Injecting new life into the Old Post Office". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
12. Marx, Paul (2008). Jim Rouse: Capitalist/Idealist. University Press of America. p. 192. ISBN   978-0761839446.
13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-11.
14. 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.
15. 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."
16. Ray Hartmann (October 21, 2011). "St. Louis Needs a New Direction for Union Station". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
17. Rolando, Joe (October 9, 1987). "Completion of Trolley renovation expected in November". Salt Lake Tribune– via Newspapers.com.
18. Campbell, Robert (November 18, 1986). "The man who brought you the marketplace". Boston Globe– via Newspapers.com.
19. 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.
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21. Brown, Steve (February 8, 2014). "Downtown Dallas' historic West End Marketplace eyed by developers for new hotel". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2017-07-28.