Battlefield Mall

Battlefield Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Springfield, Missouri. Opened in 1970, the mall features over 126 stores in 1,201,327 square feet (111,606.9 m2) of mall shop space. Anchor stores are JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and two locations of Dillard's. It opened on July 23, 1970 and is managed and owned by Simon Property Group, the successor of the same company that built it.
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== History ==
Melvin Simon & Associates, now known as Simon Property Group, built and developed Battlefield Mall. Their plans had begun in 1963 with a proposed Montgomery Ward department store. By 1968, JCPenney and Dillard's had also been confirmed as the second and third anchor stores. After two years of construction, it opened to the public on July 23, 1970. On opening day, the mall was 93 percent occupied, consisting of 685,000 square feet (63,600 m2) of shop space along with the three department stores. Among the tenants of the mall at the time were a McCrory dime store, Piccadilly Restaurants, and Osco Drug. After only five years in operation, the McCrory store was closed and converted to local department store Heer's, which opened there in 1975.
The mall's owners announced an expansion plan in 1979, to consist of over 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2) of mall shops and two new anchor stores. Upon opening in 1982, this expansion added about 85 stores, including a Sears department store and a new location for Dillard's. At the same time, the original location of Dillard's in the mall was sold to Famous-Barr. In 2001, following the closure of Montgomery Ward, Dillard's moved some of its departments into the former Montgomery Ward location, while retaining other departments in the store built in 1982. This new store, known as Dillard's South, opened in 2002. The addition of Dillard's South allowed the chain to offer a greater variety of merchandise between the two stores. Another anchor store change ensued in 2006 when Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) acquired Famous-Barr's parent company The May Department Stores Company, and renamed all of that company's stores to Macy's.
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=== Videos ===
File:Montgomery elevator at Dillard's Battlefield Mall in Springfield|The Dillard's Elevator
File:Dover Hydraulic Elevator JC Penney at Battlefield Mall in Springfield MO.|The JCPenney Elevator
File:Dover hydraulic elevator at Macy's Battlefield Mall|The Macy's Elevator
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