Upper Valley Mall

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.[1] Another original tenant was an F. W. Woolworth Company dime store, which closed in January 1992.[2]

Elder-Beerman, which replaced the Woolworth, closed in 2013. Old Navy closed at the same time.[3]

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,[4] 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;[5] it did so on April 30.[6]

The mall went into receivership in July 2014.[7] In spring 2015, Macy's[8] and J. C. Penney[9] closed their stores in the mall.

The mall's cinema, an original tenant, closed on February 20, 2017.[10]

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.[11][12]

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.[13][14][15]

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.[14]

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