Southwyck Shopping Center

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Southwyck Shopping Center, a mall in southern Toledo, Ohio, is considered a dead mall. All three anchors are vacant, as are most of the inline stores.

1 Currently
2 History
- 2.1 Lions to Dillards
3 Redevelopment
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Currently

This mall is scheduled to close June 30,2008[1]

[edit] History

The mall first opened in 1971 and had many stores, including Lion Store, Montgomery Ward, and Lamson's of Toledo. For a time in the late 1970s, Southwyck had a section called "Old Towne". Accessible via a narrow themed walkway from the regular mall, Old Towne was a common area with cobblestone streets and at least 30 smaller retailers, plus a few novelty arcade machines and a "play tic-tac-toe with the chicken" machine. Old Towne would eventually be replaced by a video arcade. Southwyck mall also had one of the area's first multiplex cinemas, with 7 screens (later expanded to 8) under one roof.

[edit] Lions to Dillards

When Lamson's closed in the mid-1970s, Lion converted that store into a "Lion for the Home", with the other store focusing on fashion. When The Lion Store was acquired by Dillard's, the two stores became a Dillard's department store and a Dillard's Home Store. Montgomery Ward closed in 2000 and is currently vacant. More recently, Dillard's closed its home store in the mall. Diamond's Men Shops, the last original tentant in the mall, has since moved its shop into a strip mall across Reynolds Road, not far from Southwyck. In October 2007, Dillards moved to Shops at Fallen Timbers.

[edit] Redevelopment

There are now no anchor stores for this mall, however, talks are now in progress to redevelop the mall and the mall area. Currently, Dillin Corp. is developing a master plan for the Southwyck site that includes converting part of the existing indoor mall into an open-air retail center, surrounded by office and residential developments.