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The 135,000 square foot Halle Brothers Company WESTGATE store, soon
after its February 1954 grand opening.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Cleveland's Westgate Center
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The 135,000 square foot Halle Brothers Company WESTGATE store, soon
after its February 1954 grand opening.
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The 135,000 square foot Halle Brothers Company WESTGATE store, soon
after its February 1954 grand opening.
The Antoinne Salon, in the WESTGATE Halle's.
Photo from Cleveland State University Library / Rebman Photo
Service
A circa-1966 shot of the 160,700 square foot Higbee's anchor and its
adjacent Budget Store. The main structure opened -in 1954- as a
Dearborn, Michigan-based Federal department store. It became a
Higbee's in 1961.
Photo from Cleveland State University Library / Joseph E. Cole
The WESTGATE Higbee's housewares department.
Photo from Cleveland State University Library / Joseph E. Cole
The Buckeye state's first shopping mall, circa-1956. Along
with New York's CROSS COUNTY CENTER, it was one of
the nation's earliest two-anchor retail complexes.
The same mall, forty years later. The Wisconsin-based Kohl's
had just opened as a third anchor store.
Today's open-air, WESTGATE power center, which opened in 2007.
Photo from www.centro.com.au
WESTGATE CENTER
Center Ridge Road and West 210th Street
Fairview Park and Rocky Ridge, Ohio
The first shopping mall in the Cleveland metro -as well as in Ohio- opened in 1954. It was situated on a 55 acre parcel, 8.5 miles southwest of Public Square.
WESTGATE CENTER, originally a 500,000 square foot open-air shopping venue, was anchored by a 3-level (135,000 square foot), Cleveland-based Halle's [rhymes with "Bally's"] and 3-level (110,000 square foot), Dearborn, Michigan-based Federal. The center also included an S. S. Kresge 5 and 10 and Fisher Foods and Pick-n-Pay supermarkets.
WESTGATE was joined by PARMATOWN CENTER -8 miles to the southeast- in 1960, and GREAT NORTHERN MALL -4.5 miles to the southwest- in 1976.
The Federal department store closed in 1960. Cleveland-based Higbee's reopened in the space in 1961; the store being the chain's first suburban branch.
The building was expanded, into a 160,700 square foot location, in 1967. A renovation of the mall, into a fully-enclosed and climate-controlled structure, was also undertaken at this time. The complex reopened, as WESTGATE MALL, during 1968.
One of the center's supermarkets reopened as a Kroger. This store was shuttered in 1972; being replaced by a 4-screen multiplex cinema.
This was followed by a 6-screen theater, which was built as an outparcel in the mall's eastern parking lot. This new cinema opened in 1984. The old cinema site inside the mall became the Promenade Food Court.
1984 also saw the opening of a new anchor store at WESTGATE, in the old Halle's, which had been vacated when the retail chain went bankrupt in 1982. Pittsburgh's Joseph Horne Company leased the store, but was in business at the WESTGATE location for only eight years.
In 1992, the Higbee's reopened as a Little Rock-based Dillard's. The next year, the Dillard's chain also assumed the old Halle's location, vacated by Horne's the previous year.
The former Higbee's was dedicated to men's and children's attire, with the old Halle's / Horne's selling ladies attire and cosmetics. An outparcel Higbee's Home Store, dealing in furniture and electronics, was also taken over by Dillard's.
Although WESTGATE had had a major renovation in 1984, by the mid-1990s, it was showing its age. The proliferation of newer and larger shopping malls in the Cleveland suburbs was providing more competition than the fifty year-old shopping center could withstand. Even a 1-level (94,500 square foot), Wisconsin-based Kohls (added in in 1996) could not stop the mall's downward trajectory.
By 2004, the end was near. The WESTGATE Dillard's stores were struggling, with the Home Store in the old Higbee's Home spot closed. The two department stores were consolidated in the larger Halle's / Horne's building (the north anchor). A year later, Dillard's pulled out of the mall entirely.
In August 2005, the mall was demolished, leaving only the nine year-old Kohl's standing. Work soon got underway on a new, open-air power center, known as simply WESTGATE.
This 618,900 square foot complex was anchored by the previously-existing Kohl's. A single-level (127,000 square foot) Target opened July 27, 2007. The third destination store, a single-level (119,700 square foot) Lowe's, was dedicated the following November.
The new WESTGATE was developed by a joint venture of the Cleveland-based Richard E. Jacobs Group, New York City-based New Excel Realty Trust and Chicago-based Transwestern Investment Company. In February 2007, New Excel Realty Trust was acquired by the Australia-based Centro Properties Group.
Sources:
Comment Post by "Anonymous"
"Westgate Mall" article on Wikipedia
"Higbee's" article on Wikipedia
"Halle Brothers Company" article on Wikipedia
Dead Malls.com / "Westgate Mall" article / Submitted by Brian Robinson
http://www.westgateohio.com/
http://www.centro.com.au/
http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The first shopping mall in America's Finest City opened in 1960 and
encompassed around 635,000 leasable square feet. It was anchored
by the largest Walker Scott store in the San Diego-based chain and
also had smaller J.C. Penney and J.J. Newberry locations. Two features
of the mid-century merchandising mecca were a 75-foot-long moving
sidewalk and rooftop heliport.
The original plan for a renovated COLLEGE GROVE CENTER, circa-
1986. In this prospectus, the open-air mall was to be fully-enclosed and
two new anchors built. The existing Walker Scott, on the left end, was
to remain. Two parking garages were to be built, as well.
Drawing from www.sandiego.gov
This layout, from 1989, shows how things eventually ended up. The
plan seen above was scaled-down drastically. The mall was never
enclosed and no new anchors -or parking garages- were added. As a
matter of fact, the Walker Scott department store was torn down and
replaced with a multiplex cinema. The lower level of outward-facing
stores were buried by an extension of upper level parking. This version
of the mall -known as MARKETPLACE AT THE GROVE- lasted for only
ten years.
An aerial view of COLLEGE GROVE CENTER, which was an almost
complete rebuild of MARKETPLACE AT THE GROVE.
Photo from www.live.com
A physical layout of the new power center-format complex from
the year 2000. The old style, open-air mall of the 1960s through
1990s gave way to a twenty-seven store, big box-dominated
retail hub. It was one of the few to feature both Sam's Club and
Wal-Mart stores.
Today, 24 Hour Fitness occupies the space that opened, as
the Grove Bowling Center, in late 1988.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
A well-known San Diego landmark, the Neon Majorette.
It was a fixture at the Campus Drive-in Theater, on El
Cajon Boulevard, since the 1940s. It was rededicated at
the mall, with a gala relighting ceremony held on March
10, 2000.
Photo from www.flickr.com / "Basayan Lady"
The latest incarnation of San Diego's often-altered shopping center.
Home Base, opened along with the new age power center complex
in 2000, gave way to Target in 2003. Mervyn's, an anchor since the
late '70s, has morphed into a Kohl's.
COLLEGE GROVE CENTER
Route 94 and College Avenue
San Diego, California
The first shopping mall in San Diego was built on a 56 acre site, located 5.7 miles northeast of the center city. Developed under the supervision of George A. Scott, president of the San Diego-based Walker Scott department store chain, COLLEGE GROVE CENTER opened for business during 1960.
Encompassing approximately 635,000 leasable square feet, the open-air complex consisted of an upper retail level and mallway and service basement. This lower level featured an outward-facing group of stores that were accessed from the southeast parking lot.
COLLEGE GROVE CENTER was anchored by a 2-level (186,300 square foot) Walker Scott, the flagship of the chain, and 2-level (36,900 square foot) J.C. Penney.
Inline stores included a J.J. Newberry 5 and 10, Long's Drugs, Pick 'n Save supermarket and bowling alley. There were also the "Park-A-Tot" child care center, "Helistop" heliport and a 75 foot moving sidewalk.
Commercial competition came along quickly. MISSION VALLEY CENTER [March 2009 archive], 5.5 miles northwest in San Diego, was dedicated in February 1961. GROSSMONT CENTER [March 2009 archive], 3.3 miles northeast in La Mesa, held its grand opening in the fall of 1961. PLAZA BONITA, 5.6 miles south in National City, was completed in 1981.
The first expansion of COLLEGE GROVE CENTER was done in the late 1970s, when a 1-level (73,800 square foot) Mervyn's was added to the northwest corner of the mall. The existing Long's Drugs was also doubled in size.
By the early 1980s, the center had become a rundown, past its prime property. Its electrical wiring was inadequate, air conditioning broken down and the roof was leaking. Its owner proposed a facelift type renovation for the structure. The City of San Diego had other ideas.
Under the auspices of the San Diego Redevelopment Agency and San Diego-based William Stone and Associates, a more comprehensive remodeling was proposed. In a 1986 plan, they envisaged the existing center being renovated into a 4-anchor, fully-enclosed mall.
A revised plan, for a scaled-down open-air complex, was approved May 19, 1986. Work got underway in June 1987. The totally revamped shopping center was officially dedicated in November 1988. Along with all of the reconstruction came a new mall moniker; MARKETPLACE AT THE GROVE.
Before work commenced on the rebuilding of the mall, Walker Scott had been shuttered. The store structure was demolished, with the 36,600 square foot Mann Grove 9 multiplex erected in its place. At the time the largest multiplex in San Diego County, it was dedicated in December 1988.
Mervyn's, J.C. Penney and Pick 'n Save had remained in their respective spots. New additions to the center included Charlotte Russe, a Food Court and outparcel Grove Bowling Center.
MARKETPLACE AT THE GROVE was initially a success, but its lack of new anchor stores contributed to its eventual decline. By 1997, the center was 50 percent vacant. It became known, in So-Cal retail circles, as "Marketplace At the Grave".
Enter Phoenix-based Vestar Development. In October 1998, they closed on the purchase of the stuggling shopping center. The second major reconfiguring of structure got underway in November.
This time around, what remained of the circa-1960 mall was demolished, leaving only Mervyn's, Long's Drugs and the outparcel Bowling Center structure. The orientation of the shopping complex was turned inside-out.
A split-level -630,000 square foot- power center was built. Along with the existing Mervyn's, its anchors were a 1-level (130,000 square foot) Sam's Club, 1-level (110,000 square foot), Irvine ["ir-viyn"], California-based Home Base (a home improvement store) and 127,200 square foot Wal-Mart. The retail mix included twenty-three other inline stores.
This repositioning culminated in the shopping center reclaiming its original name, COLLEGE GROVE CENTER. It was officially dedicated in March 2000. Home Base closed (along with the chain) in 2001. Its space was taken by Target in 2003.
COLLEGE GROVE CENTER changed hands in June 2003, with Beachwood, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty assuming ownership. Apparently, the shopping center was sold again, in February 2009.
Specific details are unclear, with inconsistent reports abounding on the world wide web. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based Kohls Corporation either purchased the Mervyn's (shuttered in early 2009) or else bought the entire shopping center outright.
Sources:
Comment post by Randy
www.sandiego.gov
infodome.sdsu.edu
www.silverscreens.com
ww.ddr.com (Developers Diversified Realty)
Route 94 and College Avenue
San Diego, California
The first shopping mall in San Diego was built on a 56 acre site, located 5.7 miles northeast of the center city. Developed under the supervision of George A. Scott, president of the San Diego-based Walker Scott department store chain, COLLEGE GROVE CENTER opened for business during 1960.
Encompassing approximately 635,000 leasable square feet, the open-air complex consisted of an upper retail level and mallway and service basement. This lower level featured an outward-facing group of stores that were accessed from the southeast parking lot.
COLLEGE GROVE CENTER was anchored by a 2-level (186,300 square foot) Walker Scott, the flagship of the chain, and 2-level (36,900 square foot) J.C. Penney.
Inline stores included a J.J. Newberry 5 and 10, Long's Drugs, Pick 'n Save supermarket and bowling alley. There were also the "Park-A-Tot" child care center, "Helistop" heliport and a 75 foot moving sidewalk.
Commercial competition came along quickly. MISSION VALLEY CENTER [March 2009 archive], 5.5 miles northwest in San Diego, was dedicated in February 1961. GROSSMONT CENTER [March 2009 archive], 3.3 miles northeast in La Mesa, held its grand opening in the fall of 1961. PLAZA BONITA, 5.6 miles south in National City, was completed in 1981.
The first expansion of COLLEGE GROVE CENTER was done in the late 1970s, when a 1-level (73,800 square foot) Mervyn's was added to the northwest corner of the mall. The existing Long's Drugs was also doubled in size.
By the early 1980s, the center had become a rundown, past its prime property. Its electrical wiring was inadequate, air conditioning broken down and the roof was leaking. Its owner proposed a facelift type renovation for the structure. The City of San Diego had other ideas.
Under the auspices of the San Diego Redevelopment Agency and San Diego-based William Stone and Associates, a more comprehensive remodeling was proposed. In a 1986 plan, they envisaged the existing center being renovated into a 4-anchor, fully-enclosed mall.
A revised plan, for a scaled-down open-air complex, was approved May 19, 1986. Work got underway in June 1987. The totally revamped shopping center was officially dedicated in November 1988. Along with all of the reconstruction came a new mall moniker; MARKETPLACE AT THE GROVE.
Before work commenced on the rebuilding of the mall, Walker Scott had been shuttered. The store structure was demolished, with the 36,600 square foot Mann Grove 9 multiplex erected in its place. At the time the largest multiplex in San Diego County, it was dedicated in December 1988.
Mervyn's, J.C. Penney and Pick 'n Save had remained in their respective spots. New additions to the center included Charlotte Russe, a Food Court and outparcel Grove Bowling Center.
MARKETPLACE AT THE GROVE was initially a success, but its lack of new anchor stores contributed to its eventual decline. By 1997, the center was 50 percent vacant. It became known, in So-Cal retail circles, as "Marketplace At the Grave".
Enter Phoenix-based Vestar Development. In October 1998, they closed on the purchase of the stuggling shopping center. The second major reconfiguring of structure got underway in November.
This time around, what remained of the circa-1960 mall was demolished, leaving only Mervyn's, Long's Drugs and the outparcel Bowling Center structure. The orientation of the shopping complex was turned inside-out.
A split-level -630,000 square foot- power center was built. Along with the existing Mervyn's, its anchors were a 1-level (130,000 square foot) Sam's Club, 1-level (110,000 square foot), Irvine ["ir-viyn"], California-based Home Base (a home improvement store) and 127,200 square foot Wal-Mart. The retail mix included twenty-three other inline stores.
This repositioning culminated in the shopping center reclaiming its original name, COLLEGE GROVE CENTER. It was officially dedicated in March 2000. Home Base closed (along with the chain) in 2001. Its space was taken by Target in 2003.
COLLEGE GROVE CENTER changed hands in June 2003, with Beachwood, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty assuming ownership. Apparently, the shopping center was sold again, in February 2009.
Specific details are unclear, with inconsistent reports abounding on the world wide web. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based Kohls Corporation either purchased the Mervyn's (shuttered in early 2009) or else bought the entire shopping center outright.
Sources:
Comment post by Randy
www.sandiego.gov
infodome.sdsu.edu
www.silverscreens.com
ww.ddr.com (Developers Diversified Realty)
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Omaha's The Center
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Site plan of Nebraska's first shopping mall, albeit, a smaller,
community-type complex, which had a retail core surrounded
on three sides by a built-in parking structure.
community-type complex, which had a retail core surrounded
on three sides by a built-in parking structure.
THE CENTER soon after its 1955 grand opening. Although it might
not look like much, this mini-mall was quite innovative. It was
among the very first enclosed, suburban shopping centers in the
United States...and probably the first with its own parking garage.
Photo From Malls Of America Blogspot.
THE CENTER TENANTS 1965:
FIRST LEVEL:
Dino's Liquors / Carl S. Baum Druggist / Center Barber Shop / Center Key and Rubber Stamp Shop / Mode O Day Women's Clothing / Center Shoe Hospital / Center Snack Shop / Chuck's Texaco / Popcorn Center / Frank The Tailor / G & W Auto Supplies / Hested Stores Variety Corner / Kimball Laundry / Dino's Tavern / Shaver's Food Mart / US Post Office
SECOND LEVEL:
KILPATRICK-YOUNKERS / Ortman Bakery / Associates Loan Company / Beau Monde, Incorporated Jewelry / Center Bank / Center Coffee Shop / Cosgrave Church Goods / House of Greeting Cards / Lollipop Lane / Fitle and Bradshaw, Attorneys at Law
THIRD LEVEL:
C.H. Baker Shoes / Thom McAn Shoes / National Shirt Shop / Tober's Clothing / Warner Studios Photography / Maternity Modes / Calandra Camera / Francois Beauty Salon
FOURTH LEVEL:
John O. McArthy, MD / Cletus Baum, MD / Edward J. Smith, MD / Center Figurine Shop / Cimarron Room Restaurant / Sky Lanes Bowling Alley / Main Line Homes / Henry Dvorak, MD / Casualty Claims Service of Omaha / American National Insurance / Clifford Smith, MD / Sebastian A. Zarbano, MD / Lyle Q. Hills, Attorney at Law / Richard J. Huston, DDS / Nebraska National Life Insurance / Reserve Life Insurance / Reynolds Metal Company / Robert Montgomery, Podiatrist / Anesthesia Associates / Edward F. Fleming, MD / John R. Hyde, MD / Daniel L. Wagner, MD / United General Adjusters Claims Department / Emmet G. Bruning, DDS / Paul D. Swobada, Optometrist / Occidental Life Insurance Company of California / Fuller Brush Company / Ataco Products, Incorporated / North American Life and Casualty Company / E.F. Rottman and Associates, Consulting Engineers / Troy and Stalder, Architects
DAN OLSON'S THE CENTER PHOTO ESSAY:
Omaha resident Dan R. Olson sent me a packet of photos and info
about the city's historic, Mid-century shopping complex, which is
now an office center. Here is a selection of the same for your perusal.
Omaha resident Dan R. Olson sent me a packet of photos and info
about the city's historic, Mid-century shopping complex, which is
now an office center. Here is a selection of the same for your perusal.
THE CENTER
Center and South 42nd Streets
Omaha, Nebraska
In the MALL HALL OF FAME November 2006 archive is an article on Appleton, Wisconsin's VALLEY FAIR CENTER. This small, fully-enclosed mall formally opened in March, 1955. A similarly-sized, interior mall in Omaha, Nebraska was completed soon after.
These small shopping complexes predated Metro-Minneapolis' SOUTHDALE CENTER [May 2008 archive] by over a year. SOUTHDALE, as many know, is considered America's first fully-enclosed shopping center.
However, as we have found, there were two who could be considered the first and second....although these centers were, by no means, the large-scale, regional-class shopping venue that SOUTHDALE was even in its early years.
THE CENTER was developed by Omaha's John Wiebe, who built the 4-level, compact complex on a 6.6 acre site, 1.5 miles southwest of Omaha's downtown area.
It was small, even by the standard of a mid-1950s shopping center. The entire leasable retail area measured somewhere around 170,000 square feet. However, it did have three levels of stores facing onto climate-controlled "mall areas", which were accessed from a multi-level parking structure that surrounded the retail core.
THE CENTER was anchored by a 1-level, Omaha-based Kilpatrick's department store. It also featured a Shaver's Food Mart, J.G. McCrory 5 and 10, Thom McAn Shoes and National Shirt Shop. The Sky Lanes bowling alley occupied its top level.
The Kilpatrick's chain was bought by Des Moines-based Younkers ["yunk-erz"] in 1961. This store was rebranded as Kilpatrick-Younkers for a time, eventually going under the Younkers nameplate.
On October 17th, 1969, a fire raged through the mall structure, resulting in 5 million dollars in damage. THE CENTER was closed for a time and reopened with its interior redecorated in an "Olde English" motif.
The complex survived the next three decades, but by the mid-1990s, many retailers had moved on to newer shopping venues in the region, such as CROSSROADS MALL (1960) [November 2007 archive], SOUTHROADS MALL (1966), WESTROADS MALL (1968), MALL OF THE BLUFFS (1986) [across the Missouri River, in Council Bluffs, Iowa] and OAK VIEW MALL (1993).
THE CENTER was repositioned as more of an office and call center facility. Today, it is owned and operated by Nebraska-based Center LLC / First Management, Incorporated.
Sources:
Malls Of America Blogspot / "The Center" post by Keith Milford / Comments by "Anonymous" and "DanOlson"
Post comment by "Catalina Ven Du Ray"
Douglas County, Nebraska Tax assessor website
www.findinguniverse.com / "Younkers" article
Center and South 42nd Streets
Omaha, Nebraska
In the MALL HALL OF FAME November 2006 archive is an article on Appleton, Wisconsin's VALLEY FAIR CENTER. This small, fully-enclosed mall formally opened in March, 1955. A similarly-sized, interior mall in Omaha, Nebraska was completed soon after.
These small shopping complexes predated Metro-Minneapolis' SOUTHDALE CENTER [May 2008 archive] by over a year. SOUTHDALE, as many know, is considered America's first fully-enclosed shopping center.
However, as we have found, there were two who could be considered the first and second....although these centers were, by no means, the large-scale, regional-class shopping venue that SOUTHDALE was even in its early years.
THE CENTER was developed by Omaha's John Wiebe, who built the 4-level, compact complex on a 6.6 acre site, 1.5 miles southwest of Omaha's downtown area.
It was small, even by the standard of a mid-1950s shopping center. The entire leasable retail area measured somewhere around 170,000 square feet. However, it did have three levels of stores facing onto climate-controlled "mall areas", which were accessed from a multi-level parking structure that surrounded the retail core.
THE CENTER was anchored by a 1-level, Omaha-based Kilpatrick's department store. It also featured a Shaver's Food Mart, J.G. McCrory 5 and 10, Thom McAn Shoes and National Shirt Shop. The Sky Lanes bowling alley occupied its top level.
The Kilpatrick's chain was bought by Des Moines-based Younkers ["yunk-erz"] in 1961. This store was rebranded as Kilpatrick-Younkers for a time, eventually going under the Younkers nameplate.
On October 17th, 1969, a fire raged through the mall structure, resulting in 5 million dollars in damage. THE CENTER was closed for a time and reopened with its interior redecorated in an "Olde English" motif.
The complex survived the next three decades, but by the mid-1990s, many retailers had moved on to newer shopping venues in the region, such as CROSSROADS MALL (1960) [November 2007 archive], SOUTHROADS MALL (1966), WESTROADS MALL (1968), MALL OF THE BLUFFS (1986) [across the Missouri River, in Council Bluffs, Iowa] and OAK VIEW MALL (1993).
THE CENTER was repositioned as more of an office and call center facility. Today, it is owned and operated by Nebraska-based Center LLC / First Management, Incorporated.
Sources:
Malls Of America Blogspot / "The Center" post by Keith Milford / Comments by "Anonymous" and "DanOlson"
Post comment by "Catalina Ven Du Ray"
Douglas County, Nebraska Tax assessor website
www.findinguniverse.com / "Younkers" article
Indy's Eastgate Center
The Wasson's anchor store, on the mall's northwest end. It closed in
The Wasson's anchor store, on the mall's northwest end. It closed in
April 1980 and eventually re-opened as a Burlington Coat Factory.
This store lasted until 2004.
Indiana's first shopping mall incorporated 370,000
leasable square feet and was anchored by Indy-
based Wasson's and a dry goods only J.C. Penney.
The complex was roofed in the mid-1970s,
as a reaction to the newly-opened WASHINGTON
SQUARE, also on Indy's east side. By the early
'80s, the older center had re-emerged as EAST-
GATE CONSUMER MALL, a price-oriented,
outlet mall prototype.
A view of the "A" Entrance, facing north. The Wasson's anchor
store was on the right.
Photo from www.deadmalls.com / "IndyMallGuy"
The "D" Entrance, facing south. J.C. Penney would have been on the
right.
Photo from www.deadmalls.com / "IndyMallGuy"
EASTGATE CENTER
East Washington Street / US 40 and North Shadeland Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana
The first mall-type shopping center in the Hoosier State was situated on a 41 acre land parcel, located 5 miles east of downtown Indianapolis, in (then) unincorporated Warren Township / Marion County.
EASTGATE CENTER was initially an open-air complex. It opened in 1957, and was anchored by a 2-level (80,700 square foot), Indianapolis-based H.P. Wasson Company and 1-level (23,115 square foot) [dry goods only] J.C. Penney. There were also a Standard supermarket and G.C. Murphy and F.W. Woolworth 5 and dimes.
The 370,000 square foot complex consisted of an upper level of retail with lower level stores accessed from the north end of the structure. Many tenants also had basement fallout shelters.
Inline stores included Sears Catalogue and Appliance, Thom McAn Shoes, Kinney Shoes, Harry Levinson's and Hudson's men's apparel, National Shirt Shop, Roth's and Morrison's ladies apparel and a Lerner Shop. There was also the Wonderland "kiddie ride" amusement park in the north parking area.
EASTGATE was followed, in 1958, by GLENDALE CENTER [May 2008 archive], which was located 7 miles northwest. However, the opening of the newer shopping center did not negatively impact business at EASTGATE.
In 1970, the Unigov consolidation of the City of Indianapolis and Marion County into one political jurisdiction brought EASTGATE into the physical limits of Indiana's capital city. The mall was still doing well at this time, but trouble was on the horizon.
In 1974, WASHINGTON SQUARE -an enclosed, superregional center- opened only 3 miles east of EASTGATE. It wasn't long before tenants were moving to the newer and more modern facility. This prompted the owners of EASTGATE to enclose and climate-control the 18 year-old shopping center.
In spite of this major renovation, EASTGATE was in rapid decline. Penney's and Sears moved to WASHINGTON SQUARE and area demographics had changed. The Wasson's department store closed in April 1980.
The mall was sold to Indianapolis-based Melvin Simon and Associates (now the Simon Property Group) in 1981. A second renovation was done. This time around, the exterior was given a facelift, with most of the parking lot entrances to stores being sealed-off.
A change in the way the mall was marketed was also undertaken. Its name was changed to EASTGATE CONSUMER MALL, with an emphasis on discount merchandising. Burlington Coat Factory was recruited to fill the empty Wasson's space. Kittle's Furniture went in the old supermarket and several other local businesses took up shop.
The concept of an "outlet mall", before such came into vogue in the 1990s, did well for a time. However, by the early 2000s, the aging EASTGATE had become a dead mall once again. Between 2002 and 2007, the shopping center changed hands four times. Many thought it would be demolished.
However, the ailing property was acquired by a joint venture of Carmel, Indiana-based Lifeline Data Centers and Kingsport, Pennsylvania-based Mark Development in May 2008. A 50 million dollar renovation commenced in July 2008.
Its first phase, completed in mid-2009, involved the conversion of the Wasson's / Burlington Coat Factory building into a computer data center.
Phase two of the project, getting underway in late 2009, will see that the mall concourse is remade into low cost office space, a church and catering company.
Eventually, an 80,000 square foot office structure will be built northeast of the existing mall and much of the front-facing parking area will be returned to greenspace. The completed project will house 450,000 square feet of data center and office space.
Sources:
www.deadmalls.com / Comment Post by Brian
HistoricIrvington.blogspot.com / "Memories Of Days Gone By – Eastgate Mall" / Posted by "MidWestMrs"
"Indianapolis" article on Wikipedia
"Unigov" article on Wikipedia
www.datacenterknowledge.com
http://www.lifelinedatacenters.com
Site plan of the brand-new, open-air COTTONWOOD MALL, circa-1962.
The shopping venue encompassed 500,000 leasable square feet; anchor-
ed by Mormon merchandiser ZCMI. Its junior anchors were Paris
Company and an Albertsons supermarket.
COTTONWOOD twenty-one years later. The original complex
was roofed-in in 1968 and expanded with a new J.C. Penney and
twenty-five store South Wing (indicated in medium gray). An early
'80s renovation (shown in light gray) included a Food Court and
partial upper level of retail, most of this in the second floor of the
previous Paris Company. The GLA of the mall now measured
755,000 square feet.
An artist's rendering of COTTONWOOD, the Old World-motif, mixed-
use community to be be erected on the site previously occupied by
COTTONWOOD MALL, which was razed in late 2007.
Drawing from www.ggp.com / General Growth Properties
Site plan of the prospective COTTONWOOD project. The only structures
that will remain from the mall are Macy's and a TGI Friday's restaurant
(in the upper left corner).
Drawing from www.ggp.com / General Growth Properties
COTTONWOOD MALL TENANTS 1962 THROUGH 1982:
ZCMI (with Car Care Center) / J.C. PENNEY (with outparcel Auto Center) / PARIS COMPANY / F.W. WOOLWORTH / ALBERTSON'S Supermarket-SKAGG'S ALPHA-BETA Supermarket / Western Savings & Loan / Jiffy Knit Fabric World / Zenick's Sporting Goods / Mattress City / Youthful Shoes / Pehrson's Appliance Center / Hammond's Tots and Toys / Spudnuts snack bar / Hot Shoppes Restaurant / Rasberry Records / Orange Julius / Morgan Jewelers / Findlay's Hallmark / Deseret Books / Baker's Shoes / Cheese Haus / Bernina Sewing Center / Singer Sewing Center / Fashion Fabrics / Coachman's Restaurant / Standard Audio / 5-7-9 Shop ladies apparel / Nobby ladies apparel / Arthur Frank mens apparel / La Ries ladies apparel / Adrien & Emile ladies apparel / Bud's Duds / Fernwood's Ice Cream / Adam's Jewelers / Hart Brothers Music / Eldredge Furniture / Zions First National Bank / Gabriel's Gallery Gifts / Bowers Stamp and Coin / Zale's Jewelers
COTTONWOOD MALL
South Highland Drive and Murray-Holladay Road
Holladay, Utah
The Beehive State's first foray into shopping malls was located 7 miles southeast of Temple Square, in Salt Lake County's unincorporated Cottonwood community.
COTTONWOOD MALL, originally open-air, occupied a 52.4 acre tract and opened for business during 1962. The 500,000 square foot complex consisted of a main store level with a small "Downstairs Mall" retail area. The tenant list featured seventy stores and services.
Salt Lake City-based Horman Construction Company developed the complex, which was anchored by a 2-level (214,000 square foot) department store of the Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution, or ZCMI, a retail chain owned (in part) by the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints.
The circa-1962 COTTONWOOD MALL also included a Woolworth 5 & 10, Albertson's Supermarket and 2-level Paris Company department store. An outparcel bowling alley stood in the mall's south parking area.
An enclosing renovation was completed in 1968. Included were a 2-level (165,000 square foot) J.C. Penney and multi-level expansion to the southeast, which added twenty-five retail spaces. COTTONWOOD MALL now encompassed 755,000 leasable square feet and one hundred inline stores
In July of 1968, the Fox Cottonwood Mall Theatre opened as a second south parking area outparcel. It originally had eight hundred and fifty seats in a single auditorium. This was twinned in late 1976, with two newly-built auditoriums opening in early 1977.
COTTONWOOD MALL was joined by its first retail competitor, VALLEY FAIR MALL, in 1970. This center was located 6 miles northwest, in West Valley City. In 1972, FASHION PLACE MALL was completed, which was only 3 miles to the southwest, in the neighboring city of Murray.
A second major renovation of COTTONWOOD MALL was completed in 1984, which included modernization of the interior and exterior. Moreover, the vacated Paris Company was subdivided into two levels of smaller stores and a Food Court installed in the recently-shuttered supermarket, which had been operating as a Skagg's Alpha-Beta.
The mall property became part of the newly-formed city of Cottonwood-Holladay in November 1999. The name of the municipality was shortened to Holladay in December of the same year.
Also in 1999, the ZCMI chain was sold to the Saint-Louis-based May Company, which retained the store's ZCMI nameplate until the chain was rebranded under the May Company-owned (Portland, Oregon-based) Meier And Frank division, in 2002. The store received another new nameplate -that of Macy's- in 2006.
Meanwhile, in 2002, the shopping venue had been acquired by Chicago-based General Growth Properties. By this time a virtually vacant -dead- mall, the center languished for a number of years before an official plan for its redevelopment was put forward and approved.
In late 2007, the Cottonwood Mall Site Development Master Plan was finalized. By November of the year, demolition was underway. The existing ZCMI / Meier and Frank / Macy's was left standing, along with an outparcel TGI Fridays restaurant.
The plan is to replace the '60s-era mall with a mixed-use community known as COTTONWOOD. Based on an Old World-European Street motif, the complex will include over five hundred residential units, 700,000 square feet of retail and 100,000 square feet of office space. Construction is presently on hold due to the sluggish economy and GGP's current financial woes.
Sources:
City-Data Forum / "Holladay's Cottonwood Mall" thread / Posts by "DrSevrin", "Cottonwood 2420", "LibrarySue 54", "Gazelam", "Holladay Native", "MissMyMall" and "Jensen 58
"Salt Lake County, Utah Tax Assessor website
Information provided by Scott P., a.k.a. "BigMallRat"
The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.ggp.com%20(general%20growth%20properties)/
Cinema Treasures / "Cottonwood Mall 4" article / Contributed By Grant Smith
"ZCMI" article on Wikipedia
"Holladay, Utah" article on Wikipedia
ZCMI (with Car Care Center) / J.C. PENNEY (with outparcel Auto Center) / PARIS COMPANY / F.W. WOOLWORTH / ALBERTSON'S Supermarket-SKAGG'S ALPHA-BETA Supermarket / Western Savings & Loan / Jiffy Knit Fabric World / Zenick's Sporting Goods / Mattress City / Youthful Shoes / Pehrson's Appliance Center / Hammond's Tots and Toys / Spudnuts snack bar / Hot Shoppes Restaurant / Rasberry Records / Orange Julius / Morgan Jewelers / Findlay's Hallmark / Deseret Books / Baker's Shoes / Cheese Haus / Bernina Sewing Center / Singer Sewing Center / Fashion Fabrics / Coachman's Restaurant / Standard Audio / 5-7-9 Shop ladies apparel / Nobby ladies apparel / Arthur Frank mens apparel / La Ries ladies apparel / Adrien & Emile ladies apparel / Bud's Duds / Fernwood's Ice Cream / Adam's Jewelers / Hart Brothers Music / Eldredge Furniture / Zions First National Bank / Gabriel's Gallery Gifts / Bowers Stamp and Coin / Zale's Jewelers
COTTONWOOD MALL
South Highland Drive and Murray-Holladay Road
Holladay, Utah
The Beehive State's first foray into shopping malls was located 7 miles southeast of Temple Square, in Salt Lake County's unincorporated Cottonwood community.
COTTONWOOD MALL, originally open-air, occupied a 52.4 acre tract and opened for business during 1962. The 500,000 square foot complex consisted of a main store level with a small "Downstairs Mall" retail area. The tenant list featured seventy stores and services.
Salt Lake City-based Horman Construction Company developed the complex, which was anchored by a 2-level (214,000 square foot) department store of the Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution, or ZCMI, a retail chain owned (in part) by the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints.
The circa-1962 COTTONWOOD MALL also included a Woolworth 5 & 10, Albertson's Supermarket and 2-level Paris Company department store. An outparcel bowling alley stood in the mall's south parking area.
An enclosing renovation was completed in 1968. Included were a 2-level (165,000 square foot) J.C. Penney and multi-level expansion to the southeast, which added twenty-five retail spaces. COTTONWOOD MALL now encompassed 755,000 leasable square feet and one hundred inline stores
In July of 1968, the Fox Cottonwood Mall Theatre opened as a second south parking area outparcel. It originally had eight hundred and fifty seats in a single auditorium. This was twinned in late 1976, with two newly-built auditoriums opening in early 1977.
COTTONWOOD MALL was joined by its first retail competitor, VALLEY FAIR MALL, in 1970. This center was located 6 miles northwest, in West Valley City. In 1972, FASHION PLACE MALL was completed, which was only 3 miles to the southwest, in the neighboring city of Murray.
A second major renovation of COTTONWOOD MALL was completed in 1984, which included modernization of the interior and exterior. Moreover, the vacated Paris Company was subdivided into two levels of smaller stores and a Food Court installed in the recently-shuttered supermarket, which had been operating as a Skagg's Alpha-Beta.
The mall property became part of the newly-formed city of Cottonwood-Holladay in November 1999. The name of the municipality was shortened to Holladay in December of the same year.
Also in 1999, the ZCMI chain was sold to the Saint-Louis-based May Company, which retained the store's ZCMI nameplate until the chain was rebranded under the May Company-owned (Portland, Oregon-based) Meier And Frank division, in 2002. The store received another new nameplate -that of Macy's- in 2006.
Meanwhile, in 2002, the shopping venue had been acquired by Chicago-based General Growth Properties. By this time a virtually vacant -dead- mall, the center languished for a number of years before an official plan for its redevelopment was put forward and approved.
In late 2007, the Cottonwood Mall Site Development Master Plan was finalized. By November of the year, demolition was underway. The existing ZCMI / Meier and Frank / Macy's was left standing, along with an outparcel TGI Fridays restaurant.
The plan is to replace the '60s-era mall with a mixed-use community known as COTTONWOOD. Based on an Old World-European Street motif, the complex will include over five hundred residential units, 700,000 square feet of retail and 100,000 square feet of office space. Construction is presently on hold due to the sluggish economy and GGP's current financial woes.
Sources:
City-Data Forum / "Holladay's Cottonwood Mall" thread / Posts by "DrSevrin", "Cottonwood 2420", "LibrarySue 54", "Gazelam", "Holladay Native", "MissMyMall" and "Jensen 58
"Salt Lake County, Utah Tax Assessor website
Information provided by Scott P., a.k.a. "BigMallRat"
The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.ggp.com%20(general%20growth%20properties)/
Cinema Treasures / "Cottonwood Mall 4" article / Contributed By Grant Smith
"ZCMI" article on Wikipedia
"Holladay, Utah" article on Wikipedia
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