Art installations have become as integral to retail center developers as parking lots as designing town centers and urban districts become their handiwork.
A developer that caught on to the town center trend more than a decade ago told us that it had occurred to her company that people no longer went to shopping centers to shop, they went to do.
It was only five years ago that Palm Beach Outlets opened in West Palm Beach, Fla., yet in that brief time the 440,000-sq.-ft. center has become an important magnet in the region.