Meadville Mall

The Meadville Mall was a one-level shopping mall 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northeast of downtown Meadville, Pennsylvania, between Conneaut Lake Road, Perry Highway and Interstate 79 in Vernon Township, a suburb of Meadville.
The mall opened in 1976 and was developed by Johnstown, Pennsylvania-based Zamias Services Inc. The mall proper houses 22 store spaces. The mall was anchored by Kmart and Montgomery Ward. There was also a Loblaws grocery store located outside of the mall north of Wards.
== Mall History ==
The mall's original anchor stores included Grants and Montgomery Ward. Grants however didn't last very long as most locations were converted into Kmart in 1976. Montgomery Ward closed in 2001 and remained vacant, however Sears attempted to open a store in the former Wards space in 2002 but plans mysteriously failed. In 1990, there was plans to expand the southend of the Meadville Mall and add an Kemmerer, Wyoming-based JCPenney as well as add an Ashtabula, Ohio-based Carlisle's. Plans fell through the same year due to the existance of Downtown Mall in Downtown Meadville. Due to Crawford County's stagnant population as well trouble competeing with Downtown Mall in Downtown Meadville and Millcreek Mall in Erie, Pennsylvania 34.5 miles (55.5 km) northwest of Meadville Mall. After not being able to find any replacement for the former Montgomery Ward space, the mall started to fall into disrepair and many stores inside the mall were relocating elsewear to bigger and busier shopping centers around Meadville. In April 2005, as a plan to repair the mall, it was purchased by Wexford, Pennsylvania-based Michael Joseph Development Company and promised great changed to the Meadville Mall. In 2008, the Meadville Mall permanently closed down, leaving Kmart as the only remaning tenant of the mall. The mall was later demolished in late 2008 and only the Kmart building remained. Kmart ended up closing down in 2017 and the building was demolished in late 2018, leaving the Meadville Mall completely gone and left in history. Today, a street was built through the former lot of the mall named "Vernon Place" and a YMCA and Meadville Medical Center now exists on the lot where Wards once stood.
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