Miracle Mile Shopping Center (Monroeville, Pennsylvania)
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The Miracle Mile Shopping Center opened in November 1954, and it was one of the few large shopping destinations for Monroeville municipality until the Monroeville Mall opened its doors in July 1969.
It has had tenants such as U.S Post Office, Allen's Menswear, Thrift Drug, Sear's Catalog Store, Loreski's Hobby Shop, Woolworths, A.S. Beck Shoes, Kinney Shoes, Murphy's Meats, Thom McCahn Shoes, S.S. Kresge, Whitehead Hardware, Loblaw's, Associated Financial, a babershop, a bakery, a shoe repair, Chick-fil-A, Olan Mills, Kroger, JCPenney, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Ponderosa Steakhouse, and Radio Shack. Kaufmann's Department Store occupied a free-standing store adjacent to Miracle Mile until the late 1980s, when it vacated to replace the vacant anchor space in near-by Monroeville Mall left by the liquidation of Gimbels. Kaufmann's was soon replace by a major automobile dealership.
Across William Penn Highway is another shopping center, Jonet Plaza, constructed some time after Miracle Mile, in the late 1960s. Some other previous and current retail offerings are Service Merchandise, David Weiss, Office Depot, Lone Star Steakhouse, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. A bowling alley, Miracle Lanes, occupies the space at the rear of the plaza. Firestone is located on the main level in space formerly occupied by JCPenneys Auto Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
