Westfield SouthPark, formerly SouthPark Center, is an enclosed shopping mall located in Strongsville, Ohio. Its anchor stores are Dillard's, Macy's, JCPenney, Sears, Kohls, Dick's Sporting Goods and a Cinemark movie theatre.
As early as the 1960s, the intersection of Royalton Road (SR 82) and Howe Road in the rapidly expanding suburb was coveted for commercial use. A secret plan by former Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell to build a new stadium a...
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Westfield SouthPark, formerly SouthPark Center, is an enclosed shopping mall located in Strongsville, Ohio. Its anchor stores are Dillard's, Macy's, JCPenney, Sears, Kohls, Dick's Sporting Goods and a Cinemark movie theatre.
As early as the 1960s, the intersection of Royalton Road (SR 82) and Howe Road in the rapidly expanding suburb was coveted for commercial use. A secret plan by former Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell to build a new stadium at the site was exposed by the media in the 1980s and subsequently scrapped. The land was eventually sold to the Richard E. Jacobs Group, which later unveiled its first plans for a major mall. The Higbee Company and May Company Ohio, Cleveland's two major department store companies, announced that they would join as anchors.
After another decade, numerous legal battles, and name changes for Higbee's and May Company Ohio, ground was finally broken for the new $200 million SouthPark Center in 1993. Opening in October 1996, the mall's anchor...
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