Welcome to the largest mall and retail history site on the internet. The MALL HALL OF FAME is a vintage shopping mall scrapbook. Its focus is on shopping complexes built -in the USA- between 1946 and 1979. Don't forget to visit our four Shopping Mall Memory Lanes, which transport you through time to a mall in 1956, 1963, 1970 and 1977!

A roofing renovation of LANDMARK CENTER was proposed in the late 1970s, but it would take 10 years for the project to get underway. An amended renovation plan was announced in 1987. A three-level interior mall, depicted in the rendering above, would be built.
Drawing from the Howard Hughes Corporation


Demolition was underway by 1988. The open mall was bulldozed, leaving its three anchor department stores standing.
Photo from Northern Virginia Digital History Archive / Amy Bertsch