When speaking of the mall--that is, The Mall--what do you call the inside of it?

I would call it the corridor. An early shopping center built in England in 1835 was actually called The Corridor

The concourse.

Also, the areas including parking garages/ lots and unconnected structures like stadiums (or stadia) and miscellaneous fast-food places constitute the complex, I think, while the mall is what you linked to. Technically. So “in the mall” might be appropriate, too, as @papayalily suggests.

I just call it “inside the mall”. The parking garage is at the mall, but not in the mall. I usually just say something like “meet me near the Macy’s”.

@absalom is right, technically, but I’ve never heard someone say that in everyday speech.

“In the mall” won’t fit in my sample sentence. I am referring to a physical feature of the place. That’s why it sounds weird to use the same term for it as for the overall thing.

“Concourse,” though: that does sound like it will do.

“When she passed the angle in the concourse, she saw that he was waiting on the bench outside the jewelry store.”

This is for a story, so proper terminology counts. “Concourse” is certainly the right word for the corridors in the airport, and it seems to fit here as well. I’ll take it. Thank you.

Ours is identified as center courtyard, with (anchor tennant) sides or wings.

If you come in the Macy’s side entrance, take a left, and when you get to the center courtyard, turn left and head down the Sears wing; the book store is on the right.

I’ve seen at least two places that call it “the promenade”.

At first when you wrote The Mall, I thought you meant in washington, D.C. Lol.

The terms might vary depending on what part of the country you live in, but I usually reference the anchor/department store on that end to indicate where I am in the mall. I was down by Macy’s, or for what you want to describe, I was walking through the mall and when I looked down towards Macy’s I saw him. or, I might use hall, or name specifically what stores I saw him in front of. Part of it depends on the person, I am talking to and how well they know the mall. The anchor stores are almost like using north, south, east, west, it orients the person you are talking to.

Hope that helps.

mall – the enclosed space is “the mall”, more than “the building that houses it” is
plaza
concourse
galleria

The more I think about it, I use mall, like my example walking through the mall and what @CyanoticWasp just wrote. Probably call the angle you describe a corner if I had to.

I’d go with concourse as well. “Promenade” and “galleria” seem, to me, more “high-class”, that is, they conjure images of places like the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele in Milan, where you can find some high-class shops like Prada and Gucci (as well as the fanciest McDonald’s I’ve ever seen!). But that’s just me.

Try guts. sorry.

I would just avoid the desire to simplify it.
Technically concourse seems right, but the language is pretty inaccessible.

“When she passed the angle in the concourse” just sounds so sterile.
Is she going to meet her accountant?

I would probably use more description of the area:
“As she walked the length of the mall, she noticed the pleasing smells coming from the candle store. As she rounded the bend near the phone booth, she saw…”

I’m going to give it a go, but these might sound even more ridiculous: the cross path of the walk way or at the junction of the egress.

@Kardamom GA for the absolutely spot-on prediction.

@fireside, thanks for the rewrite help, but this sentence is not in my story at all. I constructed it to show how and where I wanted to use a word for the physical form of the interior structure. It is a sample. The angle matters because it explains why she couldn’t see what was just ahead until the last minute.

“Concourse” seems like my best bet. Thanks, everyone.