Gray Drug was one of fifty-five charter tenants. The French Provincial-style store included a Dutch Oven Kitchen restaurant (seen on the left).
Drawing from Forest City Enterprises


CHAPEL HILL MALL stores opened between 1966 and 1968. At the time of this circa-1967 plan, the tri-anchor complex encompassed around 838,000 leasable square feet and featured the Buckeye State's first built-in twin cinema. The mall provided free parking for 5,400 autos.

CHAPEL HILL MALL TENANTS 1967:

SEARS (with Coffee House, Garden Center and freestanding Auto Center) / O'NEIL'S (with Beauty Salon and Hilltop Room restaurant) / J.C. PENNEY (with Coffee Shop, Beauty Salon, Fur Salon, Garden Center and freestanding Auto Center) / F. W. WOOLWORTH 5 & 10 (with Harvest House Cafeteria, Luncheonette and Coffee Shop) / A & P supermarket / KROGER supermarket / Akron National Nank / Andre Duval Beauty Salon / Baker's Qualicraft Shoes / Barricini Candy / Cleveland Fabrics / Cowell & Hubbard jewelers / Chapel Hill Barber Shop / Chapel Hill Toys / Cinema I & II / Dixie Hats / Faflik Shoes / Fanny Farmer Candies / Flagg Brothers Shoes / Foxmoor Casuals ladies' wear / Goodyear Bank (outparcel) / Goodyear Tire & Appliance (outparcel) / Gray Drug (with Dutch Oven Kitchen restaurant) / Holiday Shoes / Household Finance Corporation / Koch's men's & boy's wear / Lang's men's wear / Le Petite Cafe' / Memory Lane Gifts / Metzger's Photo Supply / Miller's Junior Shoe Port / New York Bakery / Nobil's Shoes / Nu-Vision Optical / Parklane Hosiery / Paul Harris ladies' wear / Petrie's ladies' wear / Pollyanna children's wear / Record Land / Richman Brothers men's wear / Singer Sewing Center / Spencer Gifts / Stefani's ladies' wear / Tall Styles ladies' wear / Thom McAn Shoes / Tie Rak / The Village Store ladies' wear / Waldenbooks / Winkelman's ladies' wear / Zale's Jewelers 


Zooming through time 28 years, we come to a circa-1995 CHAPEL HILL layout. An expansion and renovation have just been completed. They add a merry-go-round and Food Court to the Main Entrance. Up on the north end of the complex, O'Neill's has been rebranded as a Pittsburgh-based Kaufmann's.