Mounds Mall

Mounds Mall is a defunct enclosed shopping mall located in the city of Anderson, Indiana, United States. Opened in stages between 1964 and 1965, it was the first enclosed mall developed by Melvin Simon & Associates, now known as Simon Property Group. The mall's original anchor stores were H. P. Wasson and Company, Montgomery Ward, and J. C. Penney; over time, the Wasson store became Meis, Elder-Beerman, and Carson's, while Montgomery Ward became Sears and J. C. Penney was torn down and rebuilt as a movie theater. After a period of decline, Mounds Mall closed to the public in April 2018. The movie theater closed not even a year later. Leaving No Businesses in the building. As of 2021 the entire building has been boarded up.
== History ==
Mounds Mall was developed by Melvin Simon & Associates (now Simon Property Group), opening in 1965 as the company's first mall and the second mall in Indiana (Evansville's fully enclosed Washington Square began business in October 1963). 
The mall officially opened in April 1965, although anchor stores Montgomery Ward and H. P. Wasson and Company had opened the previous November. Original tenants included Zales, Kroger, Woolworth, and Jo-Ann Fabrics.
Montgomery Ward closed and became Sears in 1983. Also in the 1980s, the Wasson’s store closed. Meis opened a store around a year later, Meis was rebranded into Elder-Beerman in 1983, and finally Carson's in 2011. In 2012, the Sears closed as a result of low sales of the 2011 holiday season. On January 31, 2018, The Bon-Ton announced that Carson's would be closing as part of a plan to close 42 stores nationwide. The store closed on April 29th, 2018. Shortly later, it was announced that the whole mall would close along with the Carson's. The mall closed on April 1, 2018.
Category:Defunct malls
Category:Enclosed Malls
Category:Shopping Malls
Category:Malls in the United States
Category:Malls that opened in 1964
Category:Malls in Indiana
Category:Dead Malls