Victory Crossing, formerly Tower 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
Portsmouth, Virginia. The shopping mall opened in 1973. The mall's original primary anchors were
Bradlees
Bradlees Department Store, more commonly known as Bradlees, was a discount department store chain based in Braintree, Massachusetts, which operated primarily in the Northeastern United States. Bradlees sold various retail items in its stores, inc ...
(originally J.M. Fields) and
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later also a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The curren ...
. It also had some of the most popular mall chains of the 1970s and 1980s including Orange Bowl and Merry Go Round. Primary anchors left the mall vacant by the mid-1990s. The mall was on a site. The building was demolished in 2001, to make way for a
big-box shopping center. Victory Crossing shopping center currently occupies the site of the former Tower Mall.
References
External links
Deadmalls.com: Tower Mall
Buildings and structures in Portsmouth, Virginia
Shopping malls in Virginia
Shopping malls established in 1973
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