Greengate Centre
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| Greengate Centre | |
| Facts and statistics | |
|---|---|
| Location | Greensburg, Pennsylvania,  USA |
| Opening date | 2005 |
| Management | THF Realty |
| Owner | THF Realty |
| No. of stores and services | 45+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 430,000 square feet (40,000 m²) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
Greengate Centre is an open-air shopping center in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 30. The center opened in 2005 on the site of the former Greengate Mall, a dead mall which opened in 1965, closed in 2001, and was demolished in 2003. Greengate Centre currently encompasses over 430,000 square feet (40,000 m²) of retail space, and more than forty-five stores and restaurants such as GameStop, Payless ShoeSource, Lane Bryant, Starbucks, GNC, King's Jewelry, Hallmark Gold Crown and RadioShack. Anchor stores include Jo-Ann Fabrics, Linens 'n Things, Petco and Wal-Mart Supercenter. THF Realty of St. Louis, Missouri owns and manages the shopping center.
[edit] Greengate Mall
| Greengate Mall | |
| Facts and statistics | |
|---|---|
| Location | Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Opening date | 1965 |
| Closing date | 2001 |
| Developer | Rouse Company |
| No. of stores and services | 100+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 651,000 square feet (60,500 m²) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
Greengate Mall was developed by the Rouse Company in 1965 as an enclosed shopping mall. Original anchor stores included Horne's, JCPenney, and Montgomery Ward.[1] Other major tenants included a G. C. Murphy dime store, Burger King, Big Boy, Waldenbooks, Radio Shack, Kay-Bee Toys, Spencer Gifts; in addition, the mall was home to the first mall-based off track betting center.[1]
Sears and Kaufmann's, two other department store chains, had both expressed interest in opening a store at Greengate Mall since the mall's opening in the 1960s. Rouse, however, did not want to spend additional money to build additional anchor spaces at Greengate Mall.[2] As a result, Westmoreland Mall opened across town in 1977, with Sears and Kaufmann's (turned Macy's) as it's original anchor stores[2], joined later by The Bon-Ton and, from Greengate itself, JCPenney (see below).
JCPenney's departure in 1994 left a gaping hole at Greengate that, along with competition from a nearby Wal-Mart and the aforementioned rival mall, caused it to start slowly withering away. The Joseph Horne Company was acquired by Lazarus in 1994,[3] and the Horne's store at Greengate Mall was among those converted to the Lazarus name. Lazarus closed two years later, however, and the mall was sold to new owners in August of 1998 for $1.6 million.[1][3]
In 2001, Montgomery Ward closed with the chain's bankruptcy; shortly afterward, an attempt was made to convert the largely vacant mall to a telecommunications center.[1] This plan failed, and the last of the mall's tenants were evicted in the summer of 2001.[1][3] Greengate Mall remained vacant until 2003, when THF Realty acquired the property. The mall was demolished for Greengate Centre, which opened in 2005.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Nelson, Gary; Brian Florence. DeadMalls.com Feature: Greengate Mall: Hempfield, PA. Deadmalls.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-07.
- ^ a b Elliott, Suzanne (2001-08-10). Greengate's demise all but official (page 1). Bizjournals.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-07.
- ^ a b c Elliott, Suzanne (2001-08-10). Greengate's demise all but official (page 2). Bizjournals.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-07.
[edit] External links
- "Greengate Mall Revisited" nostalgia site - http://www.greengatemallrevisited.com/
- "Greengate Mall" upcoming historical site - http://www.greengatemall.com/
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