Festival marketplace explained

A festival marketplace is a European-style shopping market in the United States. It is an effort to revitalize downtown areas in major US cities begun in the late 20th century.

Festival marketplaces were a leading downtown revitalization strategy in American cities during the 1970s and 1980s. The guiding principles are a mix of local tenants instead of regional or national chain stores, design of shop stalls and common areas to energize the space, and uncomplicated architectural ornament in order to highlight the goods.^[1]

List of festival marketplaces

• Aloha Tower Marketplace — Honolulu, Hawaii
• Arizona Center — Phoenix, Arizona
• Bandana Square — Saint Paul, Minnesota^[2]
• Bayside Marketplace — Miami, Florida
• 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 — Boston, Massachusetts
• Festival Market — Lexington, Kentucky
• Fountain Square — Nashville, Tennessee^[6]
• Ghirardelli Square — San Francisco, California
• Harborplace — Baltimore, Maryland
  • Harbour Island - Tampa, Florida Jack London Square — Oakland, California
• Jackson Brewery — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Jacksonville Landing — Jacksonville, Florida
• Mercado Mediterranean Shopping Village — Orlando, Florida^[7]
• Navy Pier — Chicago, Illinois
• Old Post Office Pavilion — Washington, D.C.^[8]
• Pier 39 — San Francisco, California
• Portside Festival Marketplace — Toledo, Ohio^[9]
• Riverwalk — New Orleans, Louisiana
• Sixth Street Festival Marketplace — Richmond, Virginia^[10]
• South Street Seaport — New York City, New York
• Saint Anthony Main — Minneapolis, Minnesota^[11]
• St. Louis Union Station — St. Louis, Missouri^[12]
• Station Square — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Tower City Center — Cleveland, Ohio
• Trolley Square — Salt Lake City, Utah^{[13] [14]}
• Underground Atlanta — Atlanta, Georgia
• Union Station — Indianapolis, Indiana^[15]
• Union Station — Washington, D.C.
• Water Street Pavilion — Flint, Michigan^[16]
• Waterside — Norfolk, Virginia
• West End Marketplace — Dallas, Texas^[17]
• Westfield Horton Plaza — San Diego, California

See also

• Lifestyle center (retail)

Notes and References

1. Book: Maitland, Barry. The New Architecture of the Retail Mall. 1990. Van Nostrand Reinhold. New York. 1854548158. 25–26.
2. News: Bandana Square in St. Paul. Finance & Commerce. Minneapolis, MN. Frank. Jossi. February 2, 2012. NewsBank.
3. News: Catfish Town two years old. The Advocate. Baton Rouge, LA. Sharon. McRae. June 29, 1986. NewsBank.
4. News: Jacksonville's Landing will be tested by time. Tampa Bay Times. June 22, 1987. Newspapers.com. (Part 2 of article)
5. Web site: Curious Cbus: What Was the Continent Like in Its Heyday?. 15 May 2017.
6. News: Nashville development uses private funds for its boom. The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, TN. September 6, 1987. Richard Locker. Newspapers.com.
7. News: Mercado seeks out more residents. The Orlando Sentinel. June 6, 1988. Denise L. Smith. Newspapers.com.
8. News: Injecting new life into the Old Post Office. Washington Post. Margaret Webb Pressler. September 6, 1994. 2021-05-04.
9. Book: Marx, Paul. Jim Rouse: Capitalist/Idealist. University Press of America. 2008. 978-0761839446. 192.
10. Web site: Archived copy . 2013-03-11 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053055/http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vcu-cab/vircu00046.document . dead .
11. News: Mack. Linda. 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. August 20, 2002. "Thompson designed Minneapolis' first festival marketplace, the first part of St. Anthony Main in the early 1980s."
12. News: St. Louis Needs a New Direction for Union Station. St. Louis Magazine. Ray Hartmann. October 21, 2011. 2023-09-05.
13. News: Completion of Trolley renovation expected in November. Salt Lake Tribune. Joe. Rolando. October 9, 1987. Newspapers.com.
14. News: The man who brought you the marketplace. Boston Globe. Robert. Campbell. November 18, 1986. Newspapers.com.
15. News: Erik . Ledbetter . Rethinking Adaptive Reuse, or, How Not to Save a Great Urban Terminal . Railway Preservation News . 2007-03-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070208113422/http://www.rypn.org/RyPN/editorials/vieweditorials.asp?filename=041127032237.txt . 2007-02-08 .
16. http://www.nbm.org/blueprints/80s/spring88/cover/cover.htm Blueprints Magazine Spring 1988 cover
17. News: Downtown Dallas' historic West End Marketplace eyed by developers for new hotel. Dallas Morning News. Steve. Brown. February 8, 2014. 2017-07-28.