Ross Park Mall
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| Location | Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania |
| Opening date | 1986 |
| Developer | Simon Property Group |
| Management | Simon Property Group |
| Owner | Simon Property Group |
| No. of stores and services | 160 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,212,000 square feet (112,600 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 (Macy's is 3 levels) |
| Website | Ross Park Mall |
Ross Park Mall is an upscale, two-level regional shopping mall located 9 miles (14 km) north of downtown Pittsburgh in Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on McKnight Road not far from I-279. The complex, developed by Simon Property Group opened in 1986 and contains 1,212,000 square feet (112,600 m2) of retail space. It attracts more than 10,000,000 shoppers annually, and sales per square foot are in excess of $400. In recent years, Ross Park Mall has become the premiere shopping mall in the Pittsburgh area as Simon continues to attract more upscale shopping destinations that have otherwise been absent in the region.
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[edit] Anchor stores
The mall's present anchor tenants include Sears to the north, JC Penney to the east, Macy's to the south, and Nordstrom to the west. L.L. Bean anchors the recently-built lifestyle addition on the western part of the mall property.
When the mall was originally built, a Horne's store occupied the present Nordstrom location, and a Kaufmann's was in the present Macy's spot. Horne's was the second largest of Pittsburgh's department store chains, and this store had been the anchor of nearby Northway Mall; the two locations coexisted for about a year after the move. Kaufmann's was the third largest of Pittsburgh's chains, and its store moved in from a standalone location about a mile north on McKnight Road. Today, that location houses Giant Eagle, Dunham's Sports, and Stein Mart.
The Nordstrom location has a complicated history. It was intended to be a Gimbel's but was never occupied because the Gimbel's chain was sold and liquidated around the time the mall opened. The spot was then taken over by Horne's. It operated as Horne's from 1987 to 1994, when Federated Department Stores purchased the Horne's chain and rebranded its stores with its own regional Lazarus name. The store operated as Lazarus until Federated renamed it as Macy's in March 2005. Four months later, Federated purchased the May Department Stores Company, which operated the Kaufmann's anchor store at the south end of the mall. Now Federated owned two anchors in the same mall, operating under different names. Uncomfortably for them, their policy was to operate all stores under the Macy's brand. The discomfort was resolved eight months later. In March 2006, Nordstrom announced plans to build a new store on the Gimbel's/Horne's/Lazarus/Macy's site, after tearing down the building and an adjacent two-level parking structure. May quickly closed the Macy's store and began converting the much larger Kaufmann's to a Macy's. In September, 2006, the former Kaufmann's became Macy's. After a two-year construction period, the Nordstrom store opened on October 24, 2008.
[edit] Square footage
- JC Penney's (182,861 sq ft.)
- Macy's (218,751 sq ft. in former Kaufmann's)
- Nordstrom (144,000 sq ft. in a new building, formerly Horne's, Lazarus, and Macy's)
- Sears (174,614 sq ft.)
[edit] Mall expansion
Ross Park Mall has approximately 160 stores, and an expansion of the mall, which includes a 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) lifestyle addition and a new Nordstrom department store will increase the square footage of the mall to over 1,300,000 square feet (121,000 m2). The area where Media Play was located has become a Forever 21. The former DSW Shoe Warehouse is now Old Navy. The lifestyle expansion will add about four or five new stores, including one eatery, and all stores will be accessible from the outside. The lifestyle addition currently houses The Cheesecake Factory and L.L. Bean.
[edit] Apparel Stores
With a recent focus on upscale retail, Ross Park Mall now features several stores that are not found in any other mall in the Pittsburgh area. They include Nordstrom, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Lacoste, True Religion, Tiffany & Co., Martin + Osa, Michael Kors and Juicy Couture, among others. This has helped the mall become a regional shopping destination for all of southwestern Pennsylvania.
In August 2009, Los Angeles-based retailer Metropark will make its Pennsylvania debut at Ross Park Mall.
[edit] Specialty Stores
Ross Park Mall contains several standard specialty mall stores, such as General Nutrition Center and GameStop, but also includes several more exclusive stores such as Build-a-Bear Workshop, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Bare Escentuals, Coach, Sephora, Aveda, Swarovski, Aldo, Godiva Chocolatier, and Talbots.
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