Dr. Edwin Wiley Grove envisioned the Grove Arcade Building, built between 1926 and 1929, as a massive commercial mall with covered pedestrian thoroughfares and rooftop terraces surmounted by a skyscraper tower. It was the most ambitious project conceived by Grove, a wealthy patent medicine manufacturer, real estate developer and major benefactor of the city. It was restored and re-opened in 2002. Read more about it here: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/asheville/arc.htm