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Midtown Plaza
Rochester, New York
Victor Gruen, who had invented the enclosed suburban mall, built the first one inside an American downtown here as a way to fight the suburbs with their own weapon. It had a clock of the nations and a monorail for children. It was demolished in 2010.
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