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Article: Manor Shopping Center comes into its own -- again
- Article from:
- Central Penn Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 26, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Journal Publications Inc. Nov 26, 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Manor Shopping Center, opened in 1961, was one of the first suburban shopping centers in Lancaster County.
Locally developed by John Butz, who has since died, and later sold to out-of-state investors, its history reflects many retailing trends of the past few decades.
Nationally, the first shopping center to be built out of the downtown opened in 1922, but the real growth began with the construction of strip centers after World War II, in the 1950s and 1960s, due to the growth in the suburbs, according to The International Council of Shopping Centers' web site.
By 1964, three years
after Manor opened, there
were 7,600 shopping centers in the United States.
By the 1970s, enclosed malls were ...