The largest mall in North America has opened. It is a huge entertainment and shopping complex that has opened on the grounds of the Meadowlands located next the Met Life Stadium and the Meadowlands Racetrack. The cost to build this complex with theme parks and 500 stores was $5 billion dollars. This huge capital investment was laid out despite the mall being subject to Bergen County's arcane Blue Laws. That's right these geniuses are opening a mall where the majority of the retail outlets are forced to close on Sunday. All those Sundays between Thanksgiving and Christmas when malls are jammed with shoppers will see shuttered doors at American Dream. You can still go to the mall to enjoy the theme parks, go to the movie theaters and eat at the restaurants but no buying Christmas gifts on Sunday. You would think before sinking the billions into this project they would have gotten a waiver. Malls that use to be packed are now ghost towns across the country. For the first several years American Dream will be packed so the retailers will probably be able to make it on just be opened six days but down the road you will see dozens and dozens of outlets with signs saying coming soon at the mall. Margins are too thin to not be open on Sunday. I didn't even know there were still Blue Laws. I remember them growing up in the fifties and sixties. I thought they were repealed. They were except in Bergen County.
