Downtown Mall

{{Short description|Shopping area in Charlottesville, Virginia}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox shopping mall | name = Downtown Mall | image = File:2008-0830-Charlottesville-DowntownMall.jpg | image_width = | caption = The Downtown Mall with Paramount Theater in the background. | address = East Main Street | location = Charlottesville, Virginia | coordinates = {{coord|38.0303|-78.4800|format=dms|type:landmark_region:US-VA|display=inline,title}} | opening_date = 1978 | closing_date = | developer = | manager = | owner = | architect = Lawrence Halprin | number_of_stores = 40 | number_of_anchors = | floor_area = | floors = | website = {{URL|https://friendsofcville.org/}} | belowstyle = | footnotes = }} thumb|right|The Ting Pavilion at the east end of the mall. The '''Downtown Mall''' in Charlottesville, Virginia, is one of the longest pedestrian malls in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |first = Kathleen |last = Brunet |title = Charlottesville mall works for downtown |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ye0QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F4wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4507%2C1962707 |publisher = Daily Progress |date = 1986-11-11 |accessdate = 2019-07-12 }}</ref> Located on Main Street, it runs from 6th St. N.E. to Old Preston Ave., where it extends to Water St., for total length of eight blocks. It is laid with brick and concrete, and home to an array of restaurants, shops, offices and art galleries. On Fridays in the spring, summer and fall, the Downtown Mall is host to [https://www.tingpavilion.com/events-tickets/fridaysafter5/ Fridays After Five], a weekly concert series. Several side streets are also paved in brick and likewise closed to traffic. On the east, the Mall ends at the [https://www.tingpavilion.com/ Ting Pavilion], an outdoor concert venue, while the west end of the Mall features an Omni Hotel. It is also home to the Paramount Theater and the historic Jefferson Theater.

== History == In 1976, East Main Street was converted into a pedestrian mall designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.charlottesville.org/Index.aspx?page=814 |title=History of Downtown |accessdate=2008-06-21 |publisher=City of Charlottesville}}</ref> In 2007, Charlottesville planned a comprehensive rehabilitation and renovation of the Downtown Mall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mydowntownmall.com/purposeneed.htm |title=Purpose and Need |accessdate=2008-06-21 |publisher=City of Charlottesville |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615140811/http://www.mydowntownmall.com/purposeneed.htm |archivedate=2008-06-15 }}</ref> Construction on the Mall Renovation began on Sunday, January 7, 2009 and was completed that summer. The 2017 Charlottesville car attack, in which a car was deliberately rammed into a crowd during a peaceful protest, occurred on Market Street, only one block away from the Downtown Mall. Portions of the Mall and adjacent streets were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Charlottesville Downtown Mall Historic District in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/weekly-list-2024-02-09.htm|title=WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 2/2/2024 THROUGH 2/8/2024 |publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2024-02-14}}</ref>

==Features== *Daedalus Books (Virginia) *Jefferson Theater (Virginia) *Paramount Theater (Charlottesville, Virginia)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * "[http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/01/03/ONARCH-0701-B.rtf.aspx Downzone Mall: Developers not 'taken' with new plan]", ''The Hook''. * "[http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/01/24/ONARCH-downtownMall-0704-B.rtf.aspx Mall renovations: Downtown businesses not reassured]", ''The Hook''. * "[http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/02/07/ONARCH-0706-B.rtf.aspx "Fountainplus? Mall design includes lots more water]", ''The Hook''.

Category:Buildings and structures in Charlottesville, Virginia Category:Pedestrian malls in the United States Category:Tourist attractions in Charlottesville, Virginia Category:National Register of Historic Places in Charlottesville, Virginia Category:Pedestrian infrastructure in Virginia