Welcome to the largest mall and retail history site on the internet. The MALL HALL OF FAME is a vintage shopping mall scrapbook. Its focus is on shopping complexes built -in the USA- between 1946 and 1979. Don't forget to visit our four Shopping Mall Memory Lanes, which transport you through time to a mall in 1956, 1963, 1970 and 1977!

PINELLAS SQUARE became a victim of the over-malling of Tampa Bay. A downward spiral was well underway by 1993. The Simon Property Group, who inherited the struggling complex as part of its 1996 DeBartolo merger, quickly shed the property. The loan lender assumed ownership and embarked on a renovation and repositioning in 1997. The mall was renamed PARKSIDE in 1998.
Graphic from http://www.parksidemall.com (Website on Internet Archive Wayback Machine)