Mall of America Opens as the Largest Shopping Mall in the US · Chronopin

Mall of America Opens as the Largest Shopping Mall in the US · Chronopin

Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk
GRB Houston South Opens as the Convention District's First Phase
GRB Houston South, Avenida de las Americas at Polk Street, Houston, TexasHouston First Corporation
Starts 05/01/2028ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 1.6 yearsHouston First^[1] says the fully financed first phase is "on schedule to open in May 2028", a month rather than a day.
A 700,000-square-foot building joined to the George R. Brown Convention Center, holding two exhibition halls, an atrium hall and the largest ballroom in Texas, plus a 100,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza linking it to the Toyota Center. Houston First financed this first phase of its $2 billion convention district transformation with about $1.38 billion of hotel occupancy tax and special revenue bonds.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
One Vanderbilt Opens Beside Grand Central
1 Vanderbilt Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY 10017SL Green Realty…
Starts 09/14/2020CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "One Vanderbilt was formally opened with a ceremony three days later, on September 14."
One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot supertall office tower beside Grand Central Terminal, formally opened in Midtown Manhattan.
$3.3B
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Retail09/21/2026@RetailDesk
The First Walmart Opens in Rogers, Arkansas
Rogers, Arkansas, United StatesWalmart…
Starts 07/02/1962CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE64.2 years agoThe company and its own museum both date the first Wal-Mart Discount City to 2 July 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas.^[1]
Sam Walton opened Wal-Mart Discount City on Rogers' Highway 71, his first store under the name after a decade running Ben Franklin variety stores. The format was the bet: lower margins on everything, in towns the big chains had written off as too small.
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Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk
Jewel Changi Airport Opens in Singapore
Jewel Changi Airport, SingaporeChangi Airport Group
Starts 04/17/2019CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE7.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Jewel Changi Airport^[3] officially opened to the public on Wednesday 17 April 2019."
The Jewel, a 3,500-tonne glass dome housing the world's tallest indoor waterfall and thousands of trees, opened at Singapore's Changi Airport, fulfilling a vision for a garden city dating to the 1960s.
S$1.7B
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Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Florida's First Supertall Tops Out on Biscayne Boulevard
300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132Property Markets Group
Starts 12/01/2026ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 69 daysWikipedia^[1] says construction "began in late 2022 and is expected to top out in 2026"; the developers' August 2026 update narrows that to winter 2026, a season rather than a day.
The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences Miami - nine stacked and cantilevered glass cubes holding nearly 100 storeys of condominiums and a 205-room hotel - is expected to reach its full 1,049 feet, making it the tallest building in Florida and the southern United States. Its superstructure passed level 85 and started the ninth and final cube in August 2026; delivery of the finished tower is set for 2028.
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Sports09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Intuit Dome, the Clippers' New Arena, Opens in Inglewood
Intuit Dome, Inglewood, California, USALA Clippers
Starts 08/15/2024CONFIRMED 84% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened on August 15, 2024".
The Clippers' new $2BN Intuit Dome arena opened in Inglewood on August 15, 2024, giving the team its first standalone home after decades sharing a venue with the Lakers.
$2B
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Architecture09/22/2026@BuildDesk
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island
Solomon R. Guggenheim FoundationCulture District, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Starts 12/11/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysAbu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim^[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.
Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.
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Sports09/15/2026@BuildDesk
SoFi Stadium Opens in Inglewood With a Ribbon-Cutting
SoFi Stadium, 1001 Champion Drive, Inglewood, California, United States
Starts 09/08/2020CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "An official ribbon-cutting ceremony was hosted on September 8".
The most expensive stadium ever built opened as the new home of the LA Rams and Chargers, with its first NFL game days later.
$5.1B
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
The Spiral Opens at Hudson Yards
The Spiral, 66 Hudson Boulevard East, Manhattan, New York, United StatesTishman Speyer
Starts 11/07/2023CONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Spiral — a 2.8-million-square-foot office skyscraper located at 66 Hudson Blvd. in Manhattan — has officially opened," reported in November 2023.
Bjarke Ingels Group's The Spiral, a 314-metre office tower wrapped in cascading green terraces, opened at 66 Hudson Boulevard as Pfizer's new global headquarters.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Salesforce Tower Opens as San Francisco's Tallest Building
Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission Street, Rincon Hill, Financial District, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce…
Starts 01/08/2018CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE8.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The building's first tenants began moving in on January 8, 2018."
Salesforce's first employees moved into San Francisco's new 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, the anchor of the Transbay district and the city's tallest skyscraper.
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Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Waterline Opens in Austin as the Tallest Building in Texas
Waterline, Cesar Chavez Street at Red River Street, Austin, TX 78701, United StatesLincoln Property Company
Starts 09/03/2026CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE20 days agoKUT^[1] reports that "the hotel, operated by luxury hotel chain 1 Hotels, opened Sept. 3", the first part of the finished tower to open to the public.
The 74-storey, 1,022-foot tower above Waller Creek opens in stages, starting with its 251-room 1 Hotel, and stacks 703,000 square feet of offices and 352 flats above it. At full height it passes Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, which had been the tallest building in Texas since 1981, by 23 feet.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Tropical Islands Resort Opens Inside the World's Largest Free-Standing Hall
Tropical-Islands-Allee 1, 15910 Krausnick-Halbe, GermanyTropical Islands Resort
Starts 12/19/2004CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE21.8 years agoWikipedia's^[3] Tropical Islands Resort article states the resort opened on December 19, 2004, after Tanjong plc bought the former CargoLifter hangar.
A former CargoLifter airship hangar in Brandenburg, big enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty, reopened as the Tropical Islands indoor resort on December 19, 2004. Its beaches, lagoons and rainforest now draw about a million visitors a year to the world's largest free-standing hall.
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