East India Mall

This retail complex in the middle of downtown Salem was built between 1977 and 1979, contains space for fifty stores, three movie theaters, offices and restaurants. Situated in the Essex Street Mall, the building is a "forceful visual statement of the New Formalism, in that the roof-line is level, the arch motif is prominent, the principal facade is symmetrical, the column supports are thick and modeled" according to Tolles in his Architecture in Salem book.

The Parking Garage next to it was developed to be aesthetically linked to the mall. Accommodating up to 1,000 vehicles, the four level structure harkens back to the International Style architecture of the 1940's.

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Architecture in Salem by Tolles, p. 78-9