Fort Steuben Mall is an enclosed

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

located on Mall Drive in

Steubenville, Ohio Steubenville ( ) is a city in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located along the Ohio River west of Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Weirton–Steubenville m ...

. Opened in 1974, it features

Walmart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other ...

and

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC , Trade name, doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain store, chain with 649 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. It is managed as part of the Catalys ...

as its anchor stores. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once

Macy's Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34 ...

History

The mall opened in 1974 with anchor stores

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

and

Kaufmann's Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain ...

. The Kaufmann's store was the first in the chain to be located in a

. Goodman Company, a real estate company owned by Murray H. Goodman, built the mall. A 1975 expansion added 25 more stores and a third anchor department store, Ashtabula, Ohio-based Carlisle's. An original tenant, Zales Jewelers, won a design competition in that chain upon opening. JCPenney opened an anchor store in 1983 in the former Carlisle's location. Beginning in 2000, the mall was significantly rebuilt. Sears moved to a new anchor building on the north side, while JCPenney moved into the old Sears location, and the old JCPenney (originally Carlisle's) was demolished for construction of a huge

, which opened in 2002. In 2006, Kaufmann's was renamed Macy's. Sears closed in 2016. Macy's closed in 2017. The

Kohan Retail Investment Group Kohan Retail Investment Group is a shopping mall investment company based in Great Neck, New York. They “specialize” in malls and retail spaces as well as hotels. History Kohan bought Northland Mall from SITE Centers, Developers Diversified ...

purchased Fort Steuben Mall for $10.75 million in December 2018. They would sell it in 2022 to Brookwood Capital Partners. In early 2022, Brookwood Capital Partners acquired the shopping mall from the previous owners. Despite attracting new businesses to the mall, Brookwood Capital auctioned it off after only one month. In 2025, 7 Ranges Entertainment Center opened in the Former Sears.

References

External links

Mall website
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