New Jersey's Xanadu shopping center is the subject of statewide scorn.
It rises out of the tidal murk of the Meadowlands the polluted northernNew Jersey wetlands on which the sports complex of the same name was built some 33 years ago like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing? It's a mishmash of big-box structures covered in aqua, blue and white tiles, with a little mustard yellow and brown thrown in to finish off the 1970s-nightmare look. Part of the complex, still under construction, is shaped like a ski jump, because what says industrial metropolitan America quite like a Nordic sport?
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