 It would have been encircled by a newly constructed road, Galleria Drive., and connected with Downtown New Haven by an electric trolley system.A unique feature of the mall was to have been a "retail academy", used as a "training ground for people who want to work for the stores and management".Local newspaper, the "New Haven Register", supported the mall - to the point of a "publisher's memo ordering the
newsroom to play down any negative news".