An 80,000 square foot Woolco discount mart opened for business 3 months before the mall. The store anchored the east end of the complex.

Drawing from the F.W. Woolworth Company

SOUTHGATE was one of the last shopping malls in the "Lower 48" to include two mall-adjacent supermarkets; in this case, A & P and Winn- Dixie.

Supermarkets had been a standard feature of America's early shopping malls, but were passe' in 1968. By this time, only a handful of newly-built complexes had even one mall-connected grocery store.