“The nationwide suburbanization of economic activities meant the old dispersed suburban-sprawl pattern was transformed to one of suburban subcenters. Relocated shopping and businesses would cluster around major highway junctions, leading to the development of mini-centers that would attract new economic activity...Outer shopping complexes are now not only attracting consumers, they are magnets for corporate office parks. The mall has become the new town center around which business offices cluster.” (184-85).

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)