The document defines and provides examples of different types of shopping centers and commercial developments: lifestyle centers which have an open-air configuration of stores and entertainment; mixed-use developments that combine residential, office, and commercial uses; outlet centers containing manufacturer and retailer outlet stores; theme/festival centers with a unifying theme reflected in their architecture and merchandise; and omnicenters that combine enclosed malls, lifestyle centers, and power centers. A business like a high-end retailer would benefit from moving to Rapid City, South Dakota and operating within a lifestyle center format, as the city is gentrifying its downtown and becoming a larger tourist destination requiring more shopping options.

1. Question #3
Lisa Martinez

2. Life Style Centers
 Define: Shopping centers that have an open-air configuration of specialty
stores, entertainment, and restaurants, with design ambience and amenities
such as fountains and street furniture.
 Example: Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro, North Carolina
 Benefits: Ease of parking, Convenience, Outdoor attractions, “Spend the day
here” environment.

3. Mixed-Use Development Centers
 Define: Centers that combine several different uses into one complex
including residential, office, hotel, recreation, or other functions.
 Example: Mizner Park in Boca Raton, Florida
 Benefits: They facilitate a live-work-play environment, The environment in the
MXD brings extra business to the stores inside of it.

4. Outlet Centers
 Define: Shopping centers that contain mostly manufacture’s and retailer
outlet stores.
 Example: Las Vegas Outlet Mall
 Benefits: Strong entertainment component, Offers sometimes damaged yet
good valued merchandise.

5. Theme/Festival Centers
 Define: A center with a unifying theme generally reflected in each individual
stores, both in their architecture and merchandise that they sell.
 Example: Deadwood, South Dakota
 Benefits: Attracts multitudes or tourists.

6. Omnicenters
 Define: A type of development that combine enclosed malls, lifestyle centers,
and power centers.
 Example: St. John’s Town Center in Jacksonville, Florida
 Benefits: Generates more pedestrian foot traffic and causes longer shopping
trips, they support cross-shopping, convenience shopping for customers.

7. Explain a business that would benefit moving
to Rapid City using one of these locations.
 A business that would benefit from moving to Rapid City using the Lifestyle
Center format would be any high end retail center (Macy’s, Dillard's). Rapid
City is gentrifying its downtown area and urban sprawl is becoming an integral
part of the growth here. They would benefit because as Rapid City becomes
more of a tourist destination and a hub of South Dakota, more shopping
options are needed to satiate the tourists shopping needs and wants.