Oak View Mall is an enclosed

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located at 3002 South 145th Street in

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. There are 104 tenant spots on two floors of this regional mall, which was built in 1991.Center information: Oak View Mall
General Growth Properties, Ltd. Retrieved 5/10/08. The mall receives more than 12,000,000 visitors annually, and features a "Kids Coliseum" play area. Oak View is attributed with sparking a development "boom" in its approximate neighborhood, which now includes several major retailers, restaurants, a three national hotel chains. The mall's anchor stores are

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and The Rush Market. There is one vacant anchor that formerly housed a Sears.

History

The mall opened in 1991. Official opening ceremonies held on October 3 of that year, and included an appearance by Vanna White. At the time, the mall was the first enclosed mall to be built in Omaha in over 20 years. Melvin Simon & Associates (now known as

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) developed the mall with local developer KVI Associates. After only one year, Simon sold the mall to Heitman Retail.

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began negotiations to open at the mall in 1996. In 2005 the mall was the location of an attempted mall shooting similar to what happened at

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in Omaha in December 2007. A security guard supervisor was allegedly fired for disarming and apprehending a suspected mall shooter before Omaha police were called to the scene. In August 2007 the

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was held at the mall and broadcast on

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Recent History

Shoe Dept. Encore opened a store in the mall in 2013. In 2015-2016,

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, Aéropostale, and

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closed stores at the mall. In 2016,

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and

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closed their stores at the mall as part of a nationwide bankruptcy liquidation. In 2018, both the

and

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stores closed at the mall. In 2019, a The Rush Market Furniture Store assumed the vacant Younkers space. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic the occupancy rate has declined to 79%, as of October 2020. The mall in April 2021 was sold for $7.5 million to the

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References

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