Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bel Air Mall

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Nomination withdrawn, non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 15:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bel Air Mall

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Nothing notable about this mall, searches for both "Bel Air Mall" and "Colonial Mall Bel Air" turn up very little useful info. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 22:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment The article says that it's the "oldest continuously operating mall" in the state, which would make it notable -- but I can't find a single source that says that it is the oldest. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 22:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Are you serious? Bel Air Mall's forty years of continuous operation can be easily confirmed through calls to the mall's current and former owners and local newspaper clippings and press releases from August of 1967.—Preceding unsigned comment added by NitekMobilian (talk • contribs)
  • If Bel Air Mall is so un-notable, then what makes other regional shopping centers such as Brookwood Village, Madison Square Mall and others so noteworthy? ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by NitekMobilian (talk • contribs) 03:00, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The mall's size, at over 1.3 million square feet of gross leasable area, places it well past the Super-regional shopping mall category starting point of 800,000 square feet, and makes it one of the largest malls in the area. Alansohn 05:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Exactly, Bel Air Mall is the largest enclosed regional mall between metro New Orleans and Tampa/ St. Petersburg. NitekMobilian 10:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Alansohn. 1.3 million square feet is huge. It's a major mall that serves a whole region, not just a neighborhood. ---- Oakshade (talk) 18:35, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment This [1]PDF is from the Mitchell Company, one of the original developers of Bel Air Mall. It confirms the 1967 debut of Bel Air and the 1974 completion of its JC Penney wing.—Preceding unsigned comment added by NitekMobilian (talk • contribs)
  • Keep. WP:BIGNUMBER notwithstanding, it's a major mall. It needs references, but the introduction asserts notability from the third sentence (oldest continuously operating super-regional mall in the state), and it was for over a decade the largest mall in Alabama (again, this information is from the article, although it's not referenced). Referencing will be the same problem it is with most malls, since most of the links will not qualify as reliable sources, although I am sure that the Mobile newspaper's archives will have information about the mall. That might be a task for WikiProject Alabama to tackle. On a side note, from reading this table, this would be the largest mall deleted from Wikipedia, and the third largest ever nominated for deletion. Horologium t-c 03:07, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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