Peninsula Town Center
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Location | Total retail floor area 1,100,000 sq ft (100,000 m2) | |
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No. of floors | 1-2(shopping) 3-4(apartments and parking garage) | |
Parking | 4,402 | |
Public transit access | Hampton Roads Transit Routes 102, 105, 114 and 118 | |
Website | peninsulatowncenter |
Peninsula Town Center is an open air
Peninsula Town Center has a mix of department and specialty retailers and restaurants, as well as commercial office and residential space above stores on some buildings. There are also several landscaped parks, plazas and squares and 4,402 parking spaces in surface and structured lots as well as on-street.
History
Coliseum Mall was built in 1973, as a commercial centerpiece of Hampton's Mercury Boulevard-Coliseum Central district and still remains the largest single tax source within the city.
The Coliseum Mall was expanded in 1976, adding Norfolk-based Smith & Welton and Richmond-based Thalhimers. The Smith & Welton location was later a Children's Palace toy store.
In 1980 E. J. Korvette declared bankruptcy and closed all its locations. The Coliseum location was left vacant until major tenant Montgomery Ward acquired the space. Ward had moved from the adjacent Mercury Plaza Mall which was converted into an open-air shopping center. The company's Auto Center remained at Mercury.
In 1987,
Until the last several years, Coliseum existed, though did not really keep up with changing times. The Nachman's became Hess's, then Proffitt's, then Dillard's, which also opened an auxiliary store in the former Children's Palace. Thalhimers became Hecht's in 1991 and Macy's in 2006.
Both of the Dillard's stores closed in 2003. The same year, a portion of the mall was set aside to accommodate a
Redevelopment
On January 14, 2007, Coliseum Mall permanently closed its doors to prepare for demolition in late February 2007. The mall was redeveloped as an open-air center, anchored by the existing Macy's and JCPenney, along with a new Target store.[3]
On January 7, 2016; Macy's announced three Hampton Roads locations, including the one at Peninsula Town Center, would close as part of a series of 40 locations being closed in early 2016.[4]
References
- ^ "Stone & Youngberg Underwrites $93MM in Tax District Financing". businesswire.com. Business Wire. 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ "Dillard's At Coliseum To Close Both Of Its Doors".
- ^ "Hampton Mayor's State of the City address". wvec.com. WVEC. 2007-06-25. Archived from the original on 2007-06-10. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ Virginian-Pilot, Mike Connors, Margaret Matray and Katherine Hafner The. "Macy's at Chesapeake Square, Military Circle to close".
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