Representatives from The Mills Corp., Westfield Corp. andFederal Realty Investment Trust cited examples ranging from a new100,000-sf children's attraction called Wannado City at SawgrassMills in Ft. Lauderdale, FL to a 250,000-sf indoor ski facilityunder way at the Meadowlands Xanadu retail-entertainment center inNew Jersey. They also discussed combinations like Target andNordstrom in the same center and a public storage facilityco-existing as a tenant with traditional retailers.

Wannado City and the ski facility are both at Mills Corp.properties, Jay Buckley, that company's SVP of leasing, describedWannado City as a miniature city for children that features a bank,restaurants, a fire department, its own street layout and a varietyof businesses where children can simulate adult experiences likebuying an airline ticket, taking a simulated flight, shopping,working at one of the businesses, and opening a bank account.

The indoor ski facility under way at Mills' Xanadu property willbe comparable to a 17-story, 250,000-sf facility that is alreadyoperating at Mills' Madrid (Spain) Xanadu, Buckey said. The MillsSVP characterized Wannado City and the ski center as two of themost unusual examples that illustrate the company's philosophy ofattempting to differentiate its operations from other shoppingcenters and providing shoppers with new and unusual reasons forgoing to a mall and staying longer.