Piqua Center (formerly the Miami Valley Centre Mall) is an enclosed

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Piqua, Ohio Piqua ( ) is a city in Miami County, southwest Ohio, United States, 27 miles north of Dayton. The population was 20,522 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was founded as the village of Washington in ...

, United States, opened in 1988. The mall's anchor store is

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. There are 3 vacant anchor stores that were once

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and

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. The mall also has a

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History

One of the original anchors was J. C. Penney, which moved from a store downtown that had been operational since 1922. The other anchors were Elder-Beerman and

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(later

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). In 1999,

moved to the mall from an existing store at nearby (now defunct) Piqua East Mall (formerly Piqua Mall). In reaction to this move, Elder-Beerman attempted to sue to keep Sears from opening there. The Sears store opened in October of that year. Later, a Little Professor bookstore opened in the mall. Previously, the mall did not have a bookstore. Ames closed its store at the mall in 2000. Four years later, the space became Steve & Barry's. Other stores that opened in 2004 included

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and

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. In 2008, the theater complex in the mall was replaced by a Cinemark complex on an outparcel. At the end of the same year, Steve & Barry's closed. In June 2014, it was reported that Dunham's Sports would be moving into the vacated Steve & Barry's by year's end. Elder-Beerman closed on August 26, 2018, due to the bankruptcy of parent company

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. After a November 8, 2018 announcement that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 40 locations, the store closed in February 2019. On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced that it would close by October 2020 as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide. After

closed,

became the only remaining anchor store. In March 2023,

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sold the Miami Valley Center Mall to a partnership between Ohio-based Bruns Construction Enterprises and Minnesota-based Caspian Group, which renamed it the Piqua Center. It was reported in early 2024 that the mall would be redeveloped to a mixed-use center, with for

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spaces, including

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and

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; for retail and boutiques; and for entertainment and dining. RCS Construction and Glassco have signed leases in the warehousing area. The owners have leveled-up the sloping floor of the former in-line theater complex with 100,000 tons () of gravel; this space will house Hero Day Action Park, one of a small chain of indoor inflatable arcades/ playgrounds, which will include a mezzanine level and a

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. Also planned is Smile Back Training Center, a

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gym. The mall already contains an

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furniture and mattress store, which it will retain, and there is planned to be a

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hardware store and Mexican restaurant Las Marias. The food court is to be renovated, with a glass-walled bar in the center of the space; additionally, activity-driven businesses, e.g. a redemption

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or pickleball are planned to be located in the food court area. The owners have contemplated further uses for the property after 2024, including an outdoor marketplace and apartments that could be built on unused areas of the parking lots.

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