 Boarded front entrance to Rolling Acres Mall in March 2014 | |
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| Location | Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 41°02′56″N 81°35′02″W / 41.0488°N 81.5839°W |
| Address | 2400 Romig Road |
| Opening date | August 6, 1975 |
| Closing date | October 31, 2008 |
| Developer | Forest City Enterprises and Richard Buchholzer |
| Owner | Amazon |
| Architect | Keeva Kekst Association |
| No. of stores and services | 150 at peak |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 at peak |
| Total retail floor area | 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 (1 in Sears, Dillard's, and Target. 2 in JCPenney and Macy's) |
Rolling Acres Mall was a shopping mall located in the Rolling Acres area of Akron, Ohio, United States. Built in 1975, it originally included approximately 21 stores, with Sears as the main anchor store. Later expansions added several more stores including anchor stores JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, and O'Neil's, along with a movie theater and food court. Montgomery Ward was converted to Higbee's in 1986, and then to Dillard's in 1992, while O'Neil's became May Company Ohio, Kaufmann's, and then finally Macy's. The fifth anchor store was Target, added in 1995. At its peak, the mall had over 150 stores. It underwent a sharp decline in tenancy throughout the 1990s and into the first decade of the 21st century, resulting in the relocation of Target and closure of Dillard's. Macy's and the mall itself both shuttered in 2008, although Sears remained operational until 2011, and JCPenney as an outlet store until 2013. Rolling Acres Mall was publicized after its closure as an example of a dead mall, and non-retail ventures operated out of the former locations of Target, Sears, and Dillard's. The mall was finally demolished in stages between 2017 and 2019, with Amazon building a distribution facility on the former site soon after.