Francis Scott Key Mall is an enclosed

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. Opened in 1978, it is anchored by

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Macy's Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...

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, DSW,

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, and

Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (stylized as "DICK'S Sporting Goods") is an American sporting goods retail company, based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The company was established by Richard "Dick" Stack in 1948, and has approximately 854 stores an ...

History

Original anchors at Francis Scott Key Mall in 1978 included

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

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, and Gee Bee. The mall was then owned by

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. It was the second mall serving Frederick, the first being

Frederick Towne Mall Frederick Towne Mall was a mall located in Frederick, Maryland, United States. The mall opened in 1972 on U.S. Route 40 in Maryland, U.S. Route 40 along the "Golden Mile". It was closed in April 2013, except for two anchor stores, Boscov's and Ho ...

, which opened six years prior. Leggett, now

Belk Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, with nearly 300 locations in 16 states. Belk stores and Belk.com offer apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings, ...

, opened at the mall in 1991. The store was sold in 1996 to

, who relocated from Frederick Towne Mall. Woolworth, an original tenant, closed in the mid-1990s. Its space was divided among smaller stores. Also, Hess's sold its store to

Hecht's Hecht's, also known as Hecht Brothers, Hecht Bros. and the Hecht Company, was a large chain of department stores that operated mainly in the mid-Atlantic and southern region of the United States. The firm originated in Baltimore, Maryland. By 20 ...

in 1995. Hecht's became Macy's in 2006.

opened a store in the mall in 2007.

Value City Value City was an American discount department store chain with 113 locations. It was founded in 1917 by Ephraim Schottenstein, a travelling salesman in central Ohio. The store was an off-price retailer that sold clothing, jewelry, and home good ...

operated out of the former Gee Bee building from 1992 until 2008, when it was converted to

and DSW. Dick's Sporting Goods opened in a new building outside close to Sears and Value City/DSW in 2014. On December 12, 2022, it was announced that

would be closing on January 15, 2023. This was the last Sears store in the state of Maryland to stay open.

References

External links

Official website
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