Greenwood Park Mall is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

located in

Greenwood, Indiana Greenwood is a city in Johnson County, Indiana, United States. The population was 63,830 at the 2020 Census. Greenwood is located between Indiana State Road 37 and Interstate 65. The city shares a border with Indianapolis and is the most popul ...

. The mall is the hub of the retail and commercial corridor along U.S. Highway 31 on the south side of the

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. As with several other central Indiana shopping centers, Greenwood Park Mall is owned and operated by

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. Greenwood Park Mall has 149 stores. The mall's four anchors are Dick's Sporting Goods,

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(originally Lazarus), and Von Maur (originally Blocks, later

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). There is also a Vacant

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. With of total retail area, Greenwood Park Mall is the fourth largest shopping mall in Indiana, after Castleton Square in Indianapolis, Glenbrook Square in Fort Wayne, and Southlake Mall in

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. The mall is managed by Steve Kempe as of 2022. There was also a JCPenney Home Store located near Macy's, which was a former Woolworth.

History

Built on an site by Atkinson & Company at a cost of $25 million, the Greenwood Shopping Center opened in 1966. In 1977, Melvin Simon & Associates purchased the mall for an undisclosed amount of money, and in 1980, it was reopened as the Greenwood Park Mall following a renovation and expansion. By 1990, an average of 10 million shoppers a year (about 28,000 a day) were patronizing the Greenwood Park Mall. The interior walking space area, not including the leased retail spaces, encompasses a total of of area. It is currently the only mall in metropolitan Indianapolis to retain its

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store, as the Lafayette Square, Washington Square,

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, Castleton Square, Speedway Supercenter and Glendale Mall locations have closed. Dick's Sporting Goods opened in 2005, taking a former

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site. In 2003, Greenwood Park Mall underwent its first major renovation since becoming an enclosed shopping mall in 1980. This renovation eliminated many of the components of the park theme for which the mall was named. Live plants and trees, park-style benches, and outdoor-style lampposts around the interior of the mall were eliminated in favor of a more modern and upscale design. The plaza-style design of the food court was also eliminated in favor of a more open layout. In addition to interior changes, exterior entrances to the mall were also revamped at this time. By Spring 2004, work on the mall had been completed. Despite minor changes to the interior of the mall, Greenwood Park Mall currently maintains the appearance it received in the 2003 renovation. Macy’s owned both Lazarus and L.S Ayres, they chose to rebrand the Lazarus Space into Macy’s, Leaving behind the L.S Ayres store. In 2007, the building formerly occupied by L.S. Ayres was demolished, and a lifestyle center was constructed on the site. This expansion increased gross leasable area by . The lifestyle center officially opened on November 8, 2007. On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 142 stores nationwide. In 2019, it was announced that a

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would be occupying the former JCPenney Home Store. The restaurant and event space facility opened on November 15, 2020.

2022 shooting

On July 17, 2022, three people were killed and two others wounded after a

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occurred at the mall's food court. The gunman was subsequently shot and killed by a legally armed bystanding civilian.

References

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