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In 1990, the now closed H-E-B store on the property was connected to the mall by a corridor and re-opened as a Stein Mart, adding a sixth anchor store to the property. After more than four years, the Frost Bros. location was taken over in 1992 by Burlington Coat Factory, a retailer not normally associated with being a major mall anchor.
The Edison Mall would be the first time in the United States that rivals JCPenney and Sears were co-located in the same shopping center, and the stores were at opposite end of the mall's original segment. [10] The Maas Brothers store was in the middle of the mall and was notable since it was their first store to anchor an enclosed shopping mall.
Luxottica owns not only a large portfolio of brands (over a dozen [55]) such as Ray-Ban and Oakley but also retailers such as Sunglass Hut, Lenscrafters and Oliver Peoples, the optical departments at Target, and (formerly) Sears, as well as key eye insurance groups including the second largest glasses insurance firm in the US, EyeMed. It has ...
The company was started by discount department store chain Zayre in 1984, on the Medford/Malden border in Massachusetts. The company's name was derived from the initials of Beverly Jean Weich, the daughter of Mervyn Weich, the president of the new company. [3] [4] Weich announced his resignation as president in June 1987, and left on August 1. [5]
University Square Mall was officially dedicated August 15, 1974, with Robinson's of Florida and Maas Brothers, whose location was their sixth to be located in a shopping mall (their first five mall stores were at Edison Mall, WestShore Plaza, Tyrone Square Mall, DeSoto Square, and Paddock Mall, respectively).
The mall's JCPenney store was slated for closure in 2000, but the decision to close was later overturned. [7] H&M opened a store in Weberstown in 2014. It was shuttered in 2022. As of 2024, the Sears store was one of four remaining in California and ten remaining in the continental United States still in operation. [8]
Prior to the development of Westmoreland Mall, the immediate area surrounding the site, known as Miller's Woods, was a mixture of open fields and wooded land.Miller's Woods served as a popular campsite during the infancy of the Lincoln Highway which saw the likes of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs camping on the site.
In 1978, the Zellers discount store chain made a bid to acquire the HBC, but the HBC turned the tables and acquired Zellers. [88] Also in 1978, Simpson's department stores were acquired by Hudson's Bay Company, and were converted to Bay stores in 1991. [89] (The related chain Simpsons-Sears was not acquired by the Bay, but became Sears Canada ...