After World War II, an enigmatic architect and fierce socialist named Victor Gruen built the first real shopping mall and ...

It was the birth of the US shopping mall: a cultural institution that would extend across ... modern US mall dates back to the opening of Southdale and its designer, Victor Gruen. Gruen was an ...

Though Minnesota is home to the Mall of America, it's also the birthplace of the country's very first indoor mall — Southdale ...

Enter Victor Gruen, a man who would later become the ... Malls began springing up in every American suburb, along with large shopping-center-mall hybrids and everything in between.