Dayton Mall

Dayton Mall

Location	Miami Township
Opening date	1970
No. of stores and services	175
No. of anchor tenants	6
Total retail floor area	1,416,846 sq.ft
Parking	6,569 parking spaces
No. of floors	2
Website	http://daytonmall.net/

Dayton Mall is a mall in Montgomery County, Ohio. The shopping center is located in Miami Township, between the suburbs of Centerville and Miamisburg. Lying ten miles (16 km) south of downtown Dayton, the mall has attracted millions of visitors since its grand opening in 1970. The mall is located just north of the junction of Interstate 75 and Interstate 675. Dayton Mall is owned by Glimcher Realty Trust, a Columbus-based firm, who acquired the complex in 1997. The company also owns the nearby Mall at Fairfield Commons.

History

Dayton Mall's official grand opening was held in 1970, although some stores were already in operation at the time, such as Rike's, Hickory Farms of Ohio and the single-screen Dayton Mall Cinema. Originally there were three anchor stores: Rike's, Sears, and J.C. Penney. There was also a J.G. McCrory 5 and 10, Liberal supermarket and three outparcel tire and auto service centers.

The one million-plus square foot, bi-level shopping center held the distinction of being the largest in southwestern Ohio for many years. Several more stores were added when Dayton Mall underwent two major renovations of its existing structure in 1984 and 1995-1996. In the first renovation, the interior of the East and West Concourses was remodeled, as was the two-level Main Entrance. The Central Atrium area was also improved with a food court installed on its mezzanine

Later, in the mid-1990s, a fourth anchor store was added, in front of what had been the main entrance. It was occupied by J. C. Penney, which moved from its former location at the west end of the mall. The original Penney became a Cincinnati-based McAlpin's in 1996 and a Dayton-based Elder-Beerman in 1998. After these renovations were completed, the Dayton Mall had nearly 150 retailers under one roof.^[1]

Changes in the retail industry over the past 20 years left an impression at the shopping center. Rike's, owned by Federated Department Stores, was placed under the ShillitoRikes nameplate in 1982. The store changed nameplates again in 1986 to Lazarus. The store fully adopted the Macy's name in 2005.

North side of the Dayton Mall

Current anchors

Anchors of the mall:^[2]

• DSW Shoe Warehouse (20,653 sq ft (1,919 m²))
• Elder-Beerman (203,548 sq ft (18,910 m²))
• J. C. Penney (178,686 sq ft (16,600 m²))
• Macy's (268,943 sq ft (24,986 m²))(3 levels)
• Old Navy (24,333 sq ft (2,261 m²))
• Sears (185,790 sq ft (17,260 m²))

Lifestyle center

KiddieLand, the playground at the Dayton Mall

The Greene Town Center, a retail and entertainment complex, opened in Beavercreek, Ohio in August 2006, forcing the Dayton Mall and The Mall at Fairfield Commons to extend the properties to attract more visitors. A 97,000-square-foot (9,000 m²), open-air, "lifestyle component" was added in the Dayton Mall's north parking lot, along Ohio 725. Known as The Village At Dayton Mall, it added twenty-five tenants to store directory and was dedicated in early 2007. With the completion of this addition, Dayton mall encompassed 1,300,306 leasable square feet.^[3]

External links

• Dayton Mall website
• Glimcher Properties

References

1. ^ "Mall Information". http://www.daytonmall.net/index.cfm. Retrieved 2009-03-19. 
2. ^ "Directory of Stores". http://www.daytonmall.net/go/dirlisting.cfm?fl=all. Retrieved 2009-03-19. 
3. ^ "Lifestyle Expansion". http://www.woolpert.com/projDetails.cfm?id=profiles&projectID=181. Retrieved 2009-03-19. 

Coordinates: 39°38′02″N 84°13′14″W / 39.63395°N 84.22060°W / 39.63395; -84.22060