Southern Park Mall

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View of the mall from U.S. Route 224.
View of the mall from U.S. Route 224.

The Southern Park Mall is a shopping mall in Boardman, Ohio. Originally owned by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation when it opened in 1970, it is now owned by the Simon Property Group. The mall, which is the largest shopping destination in Mahoning County, boasts 1,198,000 square feet of space.

Southern Park underwent an extensive renovation in 1997, shortly after the DeBartolo Corporation merged with Simon. Simon has spent $19 million to make improvements to the interiors, and added a food court as well as a movie theater, although the theater is not directly attached to the mall.

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Situated on the eastern edge of the mall's property lays Tinseltown USA, an 7-screen cinema operated by the movie theater conglomerate Cinemark. The theater opened during the mall's renovation period of 1996-1997. The largest of the screens seats 470 patrons, while the two smallest seat over 200. Two of the screens (including the 470 seat house, the other seats 281) feature a wrap-around, concave design so that the screen fills more of the viewer's field of vision.