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NORTHGATE MALL Colerain Avenue / US 27 and Springdale Road Hamilton County, Ohio Greater Cincinnati's sixth mall-type shopping center was constructed on a 42 acre tract, located 12 miles northwest of downtown's Fountain Square, in an unincorporated section of Hamilton County known as Colerain Township. The site, formerly the Mount Healthy Airport, was a short distance south of the future route of the Interstate 275 beltway. NORTHGATE MALL was anchored by a 3-level (153,000 square foot), Cincinnatibased Pogue's, which welcomed its first shoppers on May 20, 1972. A 2-level (191,000 square foot), Cincinnati-based McAlpin's held its grand opening June 4, 1972. Sears, with a 2-level (161,900 square foot) store, was officially dedicated July 26, 1972.
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The official inauguration of the mall took place September 10, 1972. The complex encompassed approximately 880,000 leasable square feet and eventually housed over ninety stores and services. Charter tenants included Camelot Music, Gordon's Jewelers, Paul Harris, Thom McAn Shoes, Singer Sewing Center, Fifth Third Bank, Magnaxox Electronics, SupeRx Drugs and a Kroger "Superstore" grocery. The Mid-States Theatres Northgate Cinemas 1-2-3 showed its first features on December 22, 1973. The venue, built as a freestanding structure in the northeast parking lot, would eventually comprise 7 screens.
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Major shopping hubs in the NORTHGATE trade area included TRI-COUNTY MALL (1960) {7.6 miles northeast, in Springdale}, WESTERN WOODS MALL (1966) {6.6 miles southwest, in Hamilton County}and -eventually- FOREST FAIR MALL (1988) {5.5 miles northeast, in Forest Park and Fairfield}. A 2 million dollar face lift renovation of NORTHGATE MALL was completed in March 1988. The first physical expansion got underway in the fall of 1992. This 40 million dollar project revamped the existing complex with new flooring and lighting. The West Wing was totally reconfigured. All three wings were extended, an 11-bay Food Court created and multi-level parking garage built. Moreover, a fourth anchor store joined the tenant list. A 2-level (171,000 square foot),
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Columbus-based Lazarus opened for business in September 1993. The official rededication of the mall took place October 21 of the same year. In all, thirty-three stores had been added. These included Arcadia, Champs Sports, Deb Shops and Energy Express Plus. NORTHGATE MALL now encompassed stores and services.
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The first anchor store change occurred October 29, 1984, when units in the Pogue's
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chain (a division of Associated Dry Goods) were rebranded as Indianapolis-based L.S.
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approximately 1,100,000 leasable square feet and contained one hundred and thirty
Ayres. The NORTHGATE, KENWOOD TOWNE CENTRE and TRI-COUNTY Ayres locations were rebranded by J.C. Penney on November 7, 1988. In 1999, a McAlpin's-
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to-Dillard's conversion took place. Lazarus morphed into Lazarus-Macy's on August 1, 2003 and was given a Macy's brand on March 6, 2005. In July of the same year, Great Neck, New York-based Feldman Mall Properties acquired NORTHGATE MALL. Plans for an open-air Streetscape addition were drawn up. This would be built on the Northgate Cinemas 7 site and include several high-end boutiques and bistros. Said Streetscape was to be the second segment of a two-phase revitalization of the 33-year-old retail hub. Only the first segment of this plan would be implemented. The
refurbished mall entrances.
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In 2006, J.C. Penney announced their impending move from NORTHGATE to a new
recently updated
project got underway in April 2006 and was finished in December of the same year. The complex was given an exterior face lift, which included new landscaping and
store in the adjoining STONE CREEK TOWNE CENTER. It appeared that the loss of this major tenant was going to be recouped by a 14-screen Rave megaplex cinema, which was plotted to replace the vacant anchor store. The Pogue's / Penney's structure was demolished in February 2007. Unfortunately, the new movie house did not materialize. This left a gaping hole in the south-facing facade of the mall. To add insult to injury, Dillard's, the mall's east anchor, shuttered its NORTHGATE store December 31, 2009.
We, at the MHoF, observe the recent demolition of Michigan's Northland Center; one of the first major shopping malls in the USA. New photos, and a 1954 tenant list, have been added to our write-up.
Due to The Great Recession, Feldman Mall Properties was left with an upside down mortgage. The appraised value of the retail hub, on which they owed 75 million dollars,
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had depreciated to only 34 million. The company filed for bankruptcy in February 2010. The shopping center was placed in receivership. Dallas-based Tabani Acquisitions, Limited Liability Company agreed to purchase the struggling retail center. The deal closed in October 2011. Soon after, Tabani announced plans for a major revitalization of the property. Four freestanding structures were built in the eastern parking area; McDonald's, Huntington Bank, Cheddar's Casual Cafe and a Longhorn Steakhouse. Store space in the East Wing was gutted and reconfigured as a (50,000 square foot) Famous Labels store. It opened for business December 17, 2010, but closed soon after. A Burlington Coat Factory took over the space and opened on March 8, 2013. At the same time, the vacant Dillard's was gutted and carved into four big box spaces. These housed a (19,000 square foot) DSW, (27,000 square foot) Marshalls, (22,000 square foot) Michaels and (12,000 square foot) Ulta Beauty. Marshalls became the first store to open, on May 2, 2013. The final dedication, held for DSW, took place September 5 of the same year. A (23,000 square foot) hhgregg was added to the north side of the former Dillard's. This store held its grand opening on July 10, 2014...but was shuttered, along with the entire chain, in May 2017. The second theatrical venue to operate at NORTHGATE MALL was built on space where the Pogue's / Penney's store once stood. The Xscape Theatres Northgate 14 made its debut January 22, 2015. Sources:
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speed links to historic post-war shopping centers (1946-1952) Washington State's Belleview Shopping Square (1946) Connecticut's Ridgeway Center (1947) Los Angeles' Broadway-Crenshaw Center (1947) Columbus, Ohio's Town & Country Drive-In Center (1949) Memphis' Poplar-Highland Plaza (1949) Chicago's Park Forest Plaza (1949) Long Island's Gardens of Great Neck Center (1951) Daly City, California's Westlake Town & Country Center (1951) Milwaukee's Southgate Center (1951) Tulsa's Utica Square (1952)
speed links to historic malls (1950-1990) Seattle's Northgate Center (1950) Boston's Shoppers' World (1951) Los Angeles' Lakewood Center (1952) San Francisco's Stonestown Center (1952) Detroit's Northland Center (1954) New York City's Cross County Center (1954) Wisconsin's Valley Fair Center (1954) Minneapolis' Southdale Center (1956) New Jersey's Bergen Mall (1957) Montgomery's Normandale Shopping City (1957) Baltimore's Harundale Mall (1958) Dallas' Big Town Mall (1959) Atlanta's Lenox Square (1959) Maryland's Wheaton Plaza (1960) Birmingham's Eastwood Mall (1960) Phoenix's Chris-Town Center (1961) Rochester's Midtown Plaza (1962) Chicago's Randhurst Center (1962) Philadelphia's King of Prussia Plaza (1963) Dallas' NorthPark Center (1965) Florida's Palm Beach Mall (1967) Denver's Cinderella City Mall (1968) Virginia's Tysons Corner Center (1968) Houston's Galleria Post Oak (1970) Los Angeles' Northridge Fashion Center (1971) Chicago's Woodfield Mall (1971) Phoenix's Metrocenter (1973) Akron's Rolling Acres Mall (1975) Detroit's Fairlane Town Center (1976) Cleveland's Randall Park Mall (1976) Pittsburgh's Century III Mall (1979) Canada's West Edmonton Mall (1981) Minneapolis' Mall of America (1990)
levittown centers New York's Levittown Center (1950) Pennsylvania's Levittown Shop-A-Rama (1953) New Jersey's Levittown Plaza (1959)
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