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Ansley Mall is an open-air shopping mall in the Piedmont Heights neighborhood of Atlanta at 1544 Piedmont Avenue at the intersection of Monroe Drive near the Atlanta BeltLine trail. Ansley opened in 1964, sending Midtown Atlanta's Tenth Street shopping district into decline.〔(Tommy H. Jones, "Margaret Mitchell House: Historical Context" )〕〔Mankin, Bill. (We Can All Join In: How Rock Festivals Helped Change America ). Like the Dew. 2012.〕 The single-level center had of leasable area and was anchored by a Woolworth's variety store and Colonial supermarket. The tenant list of the 3.2-million-dollar complex included twenty-six retailers.〔 (Page on ''Mall Hall of Fame'' (blog) )〕 It was a "twin" of what is now officially called the Crossroads Shopping Center, better known by its name in its heyday, Stewart-Lakewood Center, an open-air shopping center on Metropolitan Parkway (formerly Stewart Avenue) at Langford Parkway (formerly Lakewood Freeway) in the Sylvan Hills neighborhood of southern Atlanta. Stewart-Lakewood was built in 1962 by the same company and in the same style as Ansley and was also considered a major regional retail center.〔( "Major retail center statistics", U.S. Census Bureau, 1963 )〕〔(''Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1940s-1970s'', Harold H. Martin ), p.307〕 The mall was renovated in 2010, the works carried out by Earthstation.〔("Portfolio:Ansley Mall", Earthstation website )〕 Anchors include Publix supermarket, an LA Fitness gym (popular with the gay community),〔(Bethea, "A Straight Man's Ode to Ansley L.A. Fitness", ''Atlanta'' magazine, 5/1/2009 )〕 a CVS Pharmacy and a Pier One. It is owned by Selig.〔("SOMETHING ANSLEY MALL TENANTS HAVE YET TO SEE", 9/2010, What Now Atlanta )〕 The mall rivals the intersection of 10th and Piedmont a central meeting point for Atlanta's gay community – across Clear Creek is Ansley Square, a strip mall with numerous gay bars.〔("LGBTQ Neighborhoods", Atlanta Visitor's Bureau )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ansley Mall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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