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Rolling Acres Mall was developed by Forest City Enterprises and Akron, Ohio-based developer Richard B. Buchholzer (February 19, 1916 - February 6, 2006). [1] The developers chose the 260-acre (110 ha) site, along Romig Road on Akron's southwestern side, between 1964 and 1966 after conducting studies which revealed that several major department stores had expressed interest in that area. [2]
Rolling Acres is a former shopping district in Akron, Ohio, surrounding the now-demolished Rolling Acres Mall. Planning for the area began in 1960s with Forest City Enterprises , a Cleveland real estate company and the powerful Buchholzer family, whose previous endeavors involved financing much of the Chapel Hill Mall area.
With just more than 1,000 housing units, Rolling Acres was the least residential of Akron's 25 neighborhoods. Rolling Acres, like Chapel Hill, was a major commercial hub, stationed at the south-western border of Akron. The now-defunct Rolling Acres Mall was once the neighborhood's anchor. Rolling Acres had more undeveloped land than is typical ...
900,000 square feet: Size of former Chapel Hill Mall 715,000 square feet: Size of the complex now owned by ICP at 2000 Brittain Road 60 acres: Land owned by ICP
Another former Chapel Hill Mall fixture, the old mall carousel, was donated by the Chapel Hill Business Park’s owner, Industrial Commercial Properties (ICP), to the city of Akron in 2021.
Summit Mall is a one-story, 850,000-square-foot (79,000 m 2) [3] enclosed shopping mall located at 3265 W. Market Street in the Akron suburb of Fairlawn., [4] and with the closing of both Chapel Hill Mall and Rolling Acres Mall, is the only remaining mall in Summit County.
Akron Police Department Detectives James Pasheilich goes through photographs in the case files of murder victim Leslie Barker Wednesday, June 16, 2021 in Akron, Ohio. Barker was murdered in 1978,
[8] [4] [9] He photographed abandoned malls in Michigan and Ohio, [10] including the abandoned Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, built in 1975 and closed in 2008, and the Randall Park Mall in North Randall, Ohio, which was said to be the world's largest shopping center at the time of its opening in the 1970s, and which closed in 2009. [11] [12 ...