Those brand-name stores could be in any suburban mall—and that’s the point.

Business was drawn to the new suburban mall and downtown business began to decline.

But by the late 1960s, the arrival of the suburban mall was already starting to hurt downtown stores.

Parking concerns were also cited because this mall did not have acres of parking spaces like the typical suburban mall.

Multiplexes were often developed in conjunction with big box stores in power centres or in suburban malls during the 70s and 80s.