Tower Mall

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Tower Mall
Location Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Opening date1973
Closing date2000

Tower Mall was a shopping mall located in Portsmouth, Virginia. The shopping mall opened in 1973. The mall's original primary anchors were Bradlees (originally J.M. Fields) and Montgomery Ward. 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 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m2) on a 53 acres (21 ha) site. [1] 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. [2]

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References

  1. Directory of Major Malls. MJJTM Publications Corporation. 1992. p. 828.
  2. The Virginian-Pilot (March 2001). "TOWER MALL DEMOLITION STARTS PORTSMOUTH'S FIRST MALL WILL BE REPLACED WITH A LOWE'S, OTHER STORES". Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2001-03-23.