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Show Shopping Center Meets Motor Age Challenge Cities burdened with a traffic-jammed traffic-jammed business district and inadequate in-adequate parking facilities for automobile shopping may find a solution to their, problem in the example of Stamford, Conn. Ridgeway Shopping Center, a two million dollar development of 30 individual stores, is now under construction in Stamford. Designed by Alfons Bach Associates, Asso-ciates, 11 East 44th St., New York City, after a five year study, to meet the challenge of automobile shopping, the center cover's 10 acres and is one mile from the present congested business section. sec-tion. Comparable in scope to a modern mod-ern department store with individualized indi-vidualized specialty shops, it will feature many innovations for merchandise display and shopping shop-ping convenience. It will provide 110,000 square feet of selling space, and parking facilities for 1,000 automobiles an average of 33 cars per store, compared with the existing ratio of two cars per store in the present Stamford |