Upper Valley Mall facts for kids
| Location | Near Springfield, Ohio |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 39°56′56″N 83°51′15″W / 39.9488889°N 83.8541667°W |
| Address | 1475 Upper Valley Pike |
| Opening date | 1971 |
| Developer | Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation |
| Owner | Clark County Land Reutilization Corp. |
| No. of stores and services | 15 (55 at peak) |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 (all vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 267,466 sq ft (24,848.4 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
Upper Valley Mall is a shopping mall located near Springfield, Ohio, northeast of Dayton. Built in 1971 by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation of Youngstown, the mall features four sit down restaurants, but has no anchor stores. The Upper Valley Mall is located west of Springfield, off US 68, in German Township, Clark County. The mall was owned by Simon Property Group, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based company. It is currently owned by the Clark County Land Reutilization Corporation. The Upper Valley Mall contains 267,466 sq ft (24,848.4 m2) of floor space. The mall has room for 55 stores depending on layout.
History
The Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation built Upper Valley Mall in 1971. At the time, it featured J. C. Penney, Sears, Rike's (later Macy's), and Wren's (later Block's), a unit of Allied Stores, as its anchors. Another original tenant was an F. W. Woolworth Company dime store, which closed in January 1992.
Elder-Beerman, which replaced the Woolworth, closed in 2013. Old Navy closed at the same time.
In March 2013, the Dayton Society of Natural History (DSNH) opened a satellite version of their main museum called the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery Springfield in an approximately 4000-square-foot space in the mall, moving to 20,000 square feet in the former Elder-Beerman space in November. On March 25, 2016, DSNH announced that it would close this satellite museum; it did so on April 30.
The mall went into receivership in July 2014. In spring 2015, Macy's and J. C. Penney closed their stores in the mall.
The mall's cinema, an original tenant, closed on February 20, 2017.
In 2017, the Macy's site was purchased by the Clark County Land Reutilization Corporation, a land bank, for about $200,000. In May 2018, the land bank purchased the rest of the site, exclusive of Sears, from its then-owner, Urban Retail Properties, for slightly more than $3 million.
On December 28, 2018, it was announced that Sears, the last anchor at the mall, would be closing as part of a plan to close 80 stores nationwide. The store closed on March 10, 2019, leaving the mall with no anchors.
It was reported in March 2019 (although not confirmed by Clark County) that Home Plate Sports Academy, an existing tenant, would expand and be part of the mall's redevelopment into a mixed-use sports complex including restaurants, retail, a hotel and a movie theater; the project is planned to open in two years.
On December 16, 2020, the Clark County Commission voted to allow the Clark County Combined Health District to use the former J. C. Penney store for three months for COVID-19 vaccinations and testing.
