MONDAWMIN CENTER was a tri-level facility of 490,000 leasable square feet and an eventual fifty-eight stores. The parking area of the 15 million dollar complex could accommodate 4,000 autos. The mall featured two supermarkets, which were situated beneath a parking deck on its west end.  

MONDAWMIN CENTER TENANTS 1956:

SEARS (with Peggy Kellogg Snackette and freestanding Auto Center) / G.C. MURPHY 5 & 10 (with luncheonette) / FOOD FAIR supermarket / PENN FRUIT supermarket / A.A. Mending Shop clothes repairs / A.S. Beck Shoes / Adolf's Beauty Shop / Albert's Hosiery / Arundel Ice Cream / B & B Liquors / Benton's Tweed Shop / Bond Clothes / Bowen & King Opticians / Buddy Dale Millinery / Burdell Jewelers / Castelberg's Jewelers / Central Savings Bank / Century Shoe Repair / Charley Rudo Sporting Goods / Doubet Silverware & Gifts / Elite Laundry & Dry Cleaning / Fan & Ann Beauty Shop / Fidelity-Baltimore National Bank & Trust Company / Fox's children's apparel / Interiors By Zaid / Jimmy Wu's Carry-Out Shop / Junior Whirl, Incorporated junior fashions / Lerner Shops ladies' wear / Loft's Candies / Mayflower Fashion Shop / National Shirt Shops / National Shoes of New York / The NewsMart / One-Hour Valet / Oppenheim Collins ladies' wear (with Beauty Salon) / Remington's Book Stores / Rogers Toy Shop / Ruby's Knit & Tot Shop / Sa-Lee Dress Shops / Seaboard Finance / Silber's Bakery / Singer Sewing Center / Slenderella Figure Salon / Stebbins Anderson hardware / Sun Ray Drug (with Ranch Room Restaurant) / The Cotton Shop ladies' wear / Thom McAn Shoes / White Coffee Pot Cafe / Wyman Shoes / Zepp Photo Supply Company 

The original open-air mall was rebuilt into a fully-enclosed one during 1963. Above we see a newspaper advert, published in September, which announced the grand opening of the "new" MONDAWMIN, the "seventh wonder of Baltimore." Note the reference to eternal spring.

Advert from the James W. Rouse Company