Midway Mall

Midway Mall is a 1.1 million square foot regional shopping mall in Elyria, Ohio. Lorain County's only enclosed regional mall, it sits on Ohio State Route 57, about 1/8 mile from Interstate 80 (the Ohio Turnpike) and Interstate 90. Anchored by Dunham's Sports and Johnny K's Power Sports, it has more than 100 specialty stores and a children's playland.

This article is about Midway Mall, an indoor shopping center located in Elyria, Ohio. For Midway Mall, a shopping mall located in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, see Midway Mall (Brazil). For Midway Mall, a shopping mall located in Sherman, Texas, see Midway Mall (Sherman, Texas).
Midway Mall
Entrance to Midway Mall, July 2013
LocationElyria, Ohio, USA
Opening date1966
DeveloperRichard E Jacobs Company
ManagementNamdar Realty Group
OwnerNamdar Realty Group
No. of stores and services70
No. of anchor tenants6 (2 open, 4 vacant)
Total retail floor area940,174 sq ft (87,345.0 m2)
No. of floors1 (2 in former Dillard’s, former JCPenney and former Sears)
Websitemidwaymallshopping.com

History

The mall opened in 1966 with Higbee's, JCPenney, Sears, and Woolworth's. Within a few years, Elyria's downtown lost much of its retail sector as many stores moved to the mall and others simply closed.[1]

In 1990, a new food court and a wing with May Company opened. In 1992, Higbee's became Dillard's and the May Company adopted the Kaufmann's name in 1993, before becoming Macy's in 2006. In 1994 Woolworth's closed.

The mall was long owned by the Jacobs Group of Cleveland, which sold it as part of a divestment program in 2001 to The Westfield Group, which renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown Midway. In spring 2006, Westfield announced that the mall didn't fulfill their "strategic plan" and sold it in May 2006 to Centro Properties Group,[2][3] which reverted the name to Midway Mall. Several years later, the mall was managed by The Woodmont Company.

Dillard's closed in 2007,[4] Macy's in 2016,[5] and Sears in 2017.[6] In 2018, Johnny K's Power Sports moved into the former Macy's space.[7] The mall is now owned and managed by Namdar Realty Group.

On February 28, 2019, it was announced that JCPenney would be closing as part of a plan to close 27 stores nationwide. The store closed on July 5, 2019.[8]

On January 6, 2020, it was announced that Best Buy would close when its lease ran out. The store closed on March 7, 2020, leaving Dunham's Sports and Johnny K's Power Sports as the mall's only anchors.[9]

References
  1. "The Golden Age Of Elyria". ideastream. 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  2. Crain's Cleveland Business: Midway Mall part of bigger deal
  3. "Centro Watt Enters Mall Business; US Platform Well-Positioned to Continue Growth". www.businesswire.com. 2006-05-11. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  4. Chronicle-Telegram-Staff (February 5, 2008). "Value City no more". Chronicle-Telegram. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  5. Weinberger, Jodi. "Macy's at Midway Mall to close". Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  6. Weinberger, Jodi (June 6, 2017). "Sears officials announce closing of Midway Mall store". Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
  7. "Johnny K's Powersports taking over Macy's at Midway Mall". Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  8. "JCPenney closing at Midway Mall - Chronicle-Telegram". 2019-03-01. Archived from the original on 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  9. "Best Buy to close in Elyria (UPDATED)".

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