Great Northern Mall (Ohio)
| Location | North Olmsted, Ohio, United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°25′02″N 81°54′20″W / 41.41722°N 81.90556°W |
| Address | 4954 Great Northern Mall, North Olmsted, OH 44070 |
| Opening date | 1976 |
| Developer | Biskind Development Company |
| Management | Starwood Retail Partners |
| Owner | Starwood Capital Group |
| No. of stores and services | 120 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1.2 million ft² |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in JCPenney, Sears, and Dick's Sporting Goods, 3 in Macy's, and Dillard's) |
| Public transit access | Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority |
| Website | www |
Great Northern Mall, is a single-level enclosed shopping mall in North Olmsted, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Its anchor stores are Macy's, Dillard's, Sears, J. C. Penney and Dick's Sporting Goods.
Originally, a small outdoor shopping center was opened by Saul Biskind in 1958 on what was a field of strawberries. The plaza contained a Sears (west end), F. W. Woolworth Company (center west), and a Pick-N-Pay grocery store (east end), along with a small-scale J.C. Penney and other stores. A freestanding May Company Cleveland store was built to the east of the original plaza in 1965.
The enclosed mall was opened in 1976 and attached to the east end of the existing May Company building. It featured new, larger J. C. Penney and Sears stores. In 1980, Hexalon Real Estate—an affiliate of what is now Unibail-Rodamco—became an investor in the mall. The 1980s saw the opening of the Plaza South attached to the original strip (now renamed the Plaza) and the 1987 addition of the award-winning South Court to the mall. Additionally, 2 mid-level hotels and several office facilities, such as Corporate Center and Technology Park, were built proximal to the retail facilities. These served to feed customers into the Mall and Plazas, as did the strategic location near Lorain Road, Brookpark Road, Great Northern Boulevard, and Interstate 480.
In 1991, Hexalon bought out the remaining Biskind stake in the mall and undertook a significant upgrade and remodel in 1992. It hired The Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation as its management company until 2000, when Rodamco's Urban Shopping Centers assumed management. The Biskind family, which had retained the Plazas, eventually sold them to DDR Corp. in 1997.
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