Greengate Centre
Location | Total retail floor area | 430,000 square feet (40,000 m2) |
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No. of floors | 1 (open-air) | |
Parking | 2,000+ |
Greengate Centre is an open-air
owns and manages the shopping center.Greengate Centre East
Greengate Centre East is a 71,576-square-foot (6,649.6 m2) strip shopping center adjacent to Greengate Centre. It was built in the early 1980s. It was originally anchored by a
Greengate North Plaza
Greengate North Plaza is an ancillary office and retail building at Greengate Centre. It sits on the bottom of the hill behind the Wal-Mart Supercenter and was once part of the Greengate Mall complex. It was built in 1977 and was anchored by a
Greengate Mall
Location | Total retail floor area | 651,000 square feet (60,500 m2) |
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No. of floors | 2 | |
Parking | 3,270 spaces |
Greengate Mall was developed by The Rouse Company in 1965 as an enclosed shopping mall. It was the third shopping mall in Greater Pittsburgh to be built as a fully enclosed structure, after Northway Mall, now The Block Northway, and South Hills Village.
Original anchor stores included
J.C. Penney's departure to Westmoreland Mall in 1994 left a large vacancy at Greengate that, along with competition from a nearby Walmart and the aforementioned mall, caused it to decline. 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 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
Today, the defunct mall has become a product of nostalgia, spawning such mediums as a website, a Facebook group with a large following, and even a book titled The Malling of America: Travels in the United States of Shopping by William Severini Kowinski. In addition, the mall was featured in the Helene Klodawsky film Malls R Us.
Former anchor stores
- Horne's (later Lazarus) (130,000 sq ft (12,077 m2))
- Penney's(123,000 sq ft (11,427 m2))
- Montgomery Ward (127,000 sq ft (11,799 m2))
References
- ^ a b c d e Nelson, Gary; Brian Florence. "DeadMalls.com Feature: Greengate Mall: Hempfield, PA". Deadmalls.com. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
- ^ a b Elliott, Suzanne (2001-08-10). "Greengate's demise all but official (page 1)". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
- ^ a b c Elliott, Suzanne (2001-08-10). "Greengate's demise all but official (page 2)". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2007-09-07.