Competing Claims
The Country Club Plaza is generally credited as the first regional shopping center designed for automobile use. Other shopping centers, however, have been the subject of competing claims often based on different definitions. Roland Park Shopping Center (1907) in Baltimore, a small six-store strip, has been credited as the "world's first shopping center" by Guinness World Records. Suburban Square (1928) in the Philadelphia area was previously credited by Guinness as first, though clearly predated by Country Club Plaza. Market Square (1916) in Illinois was a planned central retail district in an already developed area. And Highland Park Village (1931) in Texas is generally credited as the first "self-contained" shopping center, i.e., where the stores were turned inward instead of along planned cross streets.
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