Downfall
Its success over the following two decades was limited, and as a result, many of the merchants failed by the end of the 1990s. Competition from White Marsh, which opened a month earlier, as well as Golden Ring Mall, Columbia Mall, Towson Town Center and Owings Mills Mall did not help matters either. This resulted in plans being made to convert the mall into an outdoor town center with big-box stores. The controversial mall was unwelcome by the community. When plans were made for building a new mall in 1979, environmentalists protested and area residents wanted to keep the land rural. The Baltimore County executive at the time Donald Hutchinson refused to attend the opening ceremony and cut the ribbon.
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Famous quotes containing the word downfall:
“Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart’s drama and the negative meaning of history.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)