Finance: Shopping Center for Money

If shopping centers can sell every thing from groceries to garden tools, why not create a similar center whose stock in trade is money? So reasoned David H. Murdock, a shrewd and restless Arizona real estate developer. As one of Arizona's leading millionaires, Murdock, 41, was in a position to answer his own question, and this week in Phoenix he opens the first financial shopping center in the U.S.

In a $7,000,000 complex—including a ten-story curved glass building, the first of two similar structures—Murdock has already installed a bank, a savings and...

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