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six miles to the north. By the 1980s, most storefronts on the mall were empty and plans to renovate the mall were discussed. In 2017, car traffic was reintroduced to the street after most of the public art and amenities had been relocated to sidewalk areas.
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commissioned a plan which included three options for renovating the mall. Two of the options returned car traffic with varying degrees of preservation of the existing mall features and amenities. The third option kept the mall pedestrian free.
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in 1970 indicated that the Fresno's northward sprawl was not abating. The Fulton Mall declined, with one notable example occurring in 1988 when
Gottschalks, an anchor since 1914, moved from the mall to the Woodward Park area.
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landscape architecture design firm. The mall was dedicated on
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Saving This Place: An Ethnography of Fresno, CA's Fulton Mall
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memorialized the street scene of Fulton Mall in a 2001 poem.
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1005:"Fresno Mall's First 12 Months"
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