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The Avenue, an upscale wing at American Dream, a shopping mall at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey. This wing, containing the most upscale and expensive stores in the entire mall, is decorated very differently than the rest of the mall, with different floor, wall, and ceiling treatments, different furniture, and different artworks. I don't quite know what to make of this section, as I'm not sure whether this kind of decor is supposed to appeal to wealthier clientele, or whether this is someone's perhaps misguided interpretation of what kind of facility that a more upscale clientele wants to see. I thought that the decor was quite gaudy, bordering on tacky, and was ridiculous to the point so as to seem almost like it was parodying expensive tastes.

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