The Shoppes At Parma

The Shoppes at Parma, formerly Parmatown Center and Parmatown Mall was a one-level shopping mall 11.7 miles (18.8 km) northeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, between West Ridgewood Drive, Ames Road, Day Drive and Ridge Road in Parma, a suburb of Cleveland. The mall had four anchors which were JCPenney, Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart.
== Old Power Center ==
Parmatown Mall originally opened up as a power center named Parmatown Center which opened on September 27, 1956. Its original tenants included Nobil's Shoes, D.O. Summers, Palevsky Hardware, Hudgeon's, Miller's Drug, Faflik Shoes, Fisher Foods and Woolworth's. An open-air mall was added to the west of the complex, with its groundbreaking held on August 21, 1960. The new West Wing was anchored by a four-level May Company. The new wing added thirty three new stores which included Lerner Shops, Marshall Drug, Diamond's Men's Store, S.S. Kresge and Pick-N-Pay.
== Enclosed Mall ==
On April 1, 1968, the Parmatown Center was enclosed and the mall was renamed to Parmatown Mall, adding a second anchor which was a two-level Higbee's. A two-screen cinema was also added to the mall which was owned by General Cinemas. The mall had a bunch of tenants such as Petrie's, Susan Ives, Winkelman's, Chess King, Franklin-Simon, Davidson's and a Hot Shoppes Cafeteria. A third mall expansion was completed in July 1980 when a new South Wing was added and a ten-bay Picnic Place Food Court. A third anchor was added during this time which was JCPenney. In August 1992, the Higbee's location was converted into a Dillard's store, however it closed for good in 2000. In January 1993, May Company was rebranded to Kaufmann's with then being rebranded again to Macy's in September 2006. Another major mall renovation had commenced in late 2003 when the vacant Dillard's space was demolished. Walmart was built and opened in the former space in January 2004. During the same year, a Dick's Sporting Goods opened in the former General Cinemas space that was expanded.
== Decline ==
Shortly after Walmart opened in 2004, decline started to hit the mall as well as the mall was having trouble competing with other bigger malls throughout the Cleveland area. The former Dillard's wing in the mall was completely cut off and turned into an outdoor lifestyle center. Decline hit the mall further in 2008 during the tanking of the US economy, causing many retail tenants in the mall to go out of business and close down. By 2011, the Parmatown Mall was half vacant with $63 million being owed on the mall which is only valued at $42 million. In March 2012, Macy's closed their Parmatown location due to declining sales. In 2013, the former Macy's wing and former store were completely demolished. In April 2015, Walmart was expanded into a Supercenter store and a new Dick's Sporting Goods was built. In 2016, Parmatown Mall was closed and the enclosed portion of the mall was completely demolished and redeveloped.
== New Power Center ==
Parmatown Mall was renamed to The Shoppes at Parma in 2016 when PREP Property Group purchased the former mall, completely demolished the enclosed portion and turned the remaining mall shops into outdoor stores. The remaining anchors JCPenney, Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods were all kept. Several new stores were added to the shopping center like Ulta Beauty, Old Navy, Five Below, Torrid, Five Guys and Mattress Firm. In 2019, an A.C. Moore store was added to the new complex but only lasted a year since the company went out of business in 2020, the space was then replaced by Ace Hardware in the same year. In June 2020, the JCPenney store was shut down and was replaced with Shoppers World in 2021.
Category:Malls in the United States
Category:Malls in Ohio
Category:Cleveland Area Malls
Category:Malls that opened in 1968
Category:Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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Category:Former Macy's-anchored Malls
Category:Former Dillard's-anchored Malls
Category:Former Higbee's-anchored Malls
Category:Former Malls
Category:Former May Company-anchored Malls