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Ross Park Mall is an upscale shopping mall located in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh. The mall houses over 170 retailers including anchor stores JCPenney, Macy's, Nordstrom, and Sears. An outdoor lifestyle component complements the enclosed center and features such names as California Pizza Kitchen, The Cheesecake Factory, Crate & Barrel, and L.L.Bean. == History == The mall opened in 1986. The mall's present anchor tenants include Sears to the north, JCPenney to the east, Macy's to the south, and Nordstrom to the west. Crate & Barrel and L.L.Bean anchor the lifestyle addition on the western part of the mall property. When the mall was originally built, a Horne's store occupied the present Nordstrom location, and a Kaufmann's was in the present Macy's spot. Horne's was the second largest of Pittsburgh's department store chains, and this store had been the anchor of nearby Northway Mall; the two locations coexisted for about a year after the move. Kaufmann's was the third largest of Pittsburgh's chains, and its store moved in from a standalone location about a mile north on McKnight Road. Today, that location houses Giant Eagle, Dunham's Sports, and Stein Mart. The Nordstrom location has a complicated history. It was intended to be a Gimbel's but was never occupied because the Gimbel's chain was sold and liquidated around the time the mall opened. The spot was then taken over by Horne's. It operated as Horne's from 1987 to 1994, when Federated Department Stores purchased the Horne's chain and rebranded its stores with its own regional Lazarus name. The store operated as Lazarus until Federated renamed it as Macy's in March 2005. Four months later, Federated purchased the May Department Stores Company, which operated the Kaufmann's anchor store at the south end of the mall. Now Federated owned two anchors in the same mall, operating under different names. In March 2006, Nordstrom announced plans to build a new store on the Gimbel's/Horne's/Lazarus/Macy's site, after tearing down the building and an adjacent two-level parking structure. May quickly closed the Macy's store and began converting the much larger Kaufmann's to a Macy's. In September 2006, the former Kaufmann's became Macy's. Macy's then renovated the entire store with replacement of flooring and lighting, also relocating the furniture department to the original Horne's furniture gallery located in the parking lot. After a two-year construction period, the Nordstrom store opened on October 24, 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ross Park Mall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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