South Hills Village

South Hills Village

Location	Washington Road (U.S. 19) and Fort Couch Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°20′36.43″N 80°3′17.11″W
Opening date	July 28, 1965
Developer	Oxford Development
Owner	Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services	133
No. of anchor tenants	2
Total retail floor area	1,137,000 square feet (105,600 m2)
No. of floors	2 ( Macy's and Former Boscov's are 3 levels)
Website	South Hills Village

South Hills Village is a two-level shopping mall located in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Bethel Park and Upper St. Clair. It was developed by the Oxford Development Co. as the first shopping complex to be built as a fully enclosed structure. The two-level complex is currently owned by Simon Property Group, who acquired it in 1997. It is anchored by Macy's (formerly Lazarus and Horne's) and Sears. The mall features over 130 specialty stores including Abercrombie and Fitch, American Eagle Outfitters, Hollister Co., Aéropostale, J.Crew, Ann Taylor Loft, Banana Republic, Lucky Brand Jeans, and an Apple, Inc. store. The mall also houses a food court and several professional offices. South Hills Village was the largest in Greater Pittsburgh until the Monroeville Mall, also built by the Oxford Development Company, opened in 1969.

Located across the street from Macy's is the South Hills Village light rail station. This terminal opened for revenue service in July 1985.

Businesses located just outside the mall include Dick's Sporting Goods, Eat 'N Park, Carmike 10 Theater, First Niagara Bank, and a Barnes & Noble Bookstore (This appears to be part of the mall, but is only accessible from outside.)

Of the 80+ stores and services that opened up South Hills Village on July 28, 1965, two are still in business today: Sears and General Nutrition Center.

Anchor stores

• Space available (258,134 sq ft., formerly Gimbels, then Kaufmann's, then Boscov's 2006-2008, space occupied by Target and Dicks Sporting Goods in near future)
• Macy's (255,725 sq ft., formerly Horne's, then Lazarus)
• Sears (146,000 sq ft.)

Former anchors

In 1965, the 1,137,000-square-foot (105,600 m²) South Hills Village opened with The Joseph Horne Company, Gimbels, and Sears as the original anchors.^{[citation needed]}

In 1970, the entire Gimbels chain was purchased by the tobacco comglomerate BATUS. In 1986, after years of declining sales, BATUS announced that Gimbels was on the block. Unable to find a buyer for the entire chain, BATUS closed down the entire Gimbels Pittsburgh division, selling or closing all locations. Some of the more attractive mall locations, such as South Hills Village, were taken over by the St. Louis-based May Department Stores Company for its Pittsburgh based Kaufmann's division. This effectively caused the shuttering of the entire Gimbels Pittsburgh division. The South Hills Village location was closed and completely renovated, including the addition of a third floor, before reopening as Kaufmann's. After the move to the mall, the original Kaufmann's location on Washington Rd. (U.S. Route 19) in Mt. Lebanon became known as The Galleria of Mt. Lebanon. In 2006, when The May Department Stores Company was purchased by Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores, this store was acquired by Boscov's as Macy's was already located in the former Horne's spot at the opposite end of the mall. Boscov's closed in October 2008 and space is available for another anchor store, at the largest location inside the mall.

The Joseph Horne Company (owned by the New York City-based Associated Dry Goods Corporation) operated in South Hills Village until 1995. In October 1986, The May Department Stores Company merged with Associated Dry Goods Corporation. May promptly sold The Joseph Horne Company to a group of local investors. In 1995, Federated Department Stores acquired Horne's and renamed all former locations under its own Lazarus regional nameplate. In 2005, Federated eventually merged all its divisions (including the former Joseph Horne/Lazarus locations) into Macy's as part of a nationwide rebranding program.

Future development

The vacant three-story Boscov's store has been identified for future use by Target and Dick's Sporting Goods. This would allow Target to enter the South Hills market where limited land for new development has precluded a new store. It would also allow Dick's Sporting Goods to open a much larger store to replace the small location currently on the mall periphery. Target would likely operate on the first level of the Boscov's building with Dick's taking the second and third floors.