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Gene Leahy Mall, also known locally as The Mall, is a 9.6-acre (39,000 m 2) park located in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, United States.The park features two large slides, a sculpture garden, a remote-control boat cove, a large children's play area, and an amphitheater where outdoor concerts are held in the summer.
Crossroads Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, at the intersection of 72nd and Dodge Streets. Originally opened in 1960 by Omaha's Brandeis department store, the mall has been home to several major chains, including Sears, Target and Dillard's before the store closed in 2008. The mall is now demolished ...
Westroads Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska at the intersection of 100th and Dodge Streets (U.S. Route 6). It is the largest mall in Nebraska . [ 2 ] The mall's anchor stores are The Container Store , Von Maur , JCPenney , Dick's Sporting Goods , and AMC Theatres .
Oak View Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located at 3002 South 145th Street in West Omaha, Nebraska. There are 104 tenant spots on two floors of this regional mall, which was built in 1991. [ 2 ] The mall receives more than 12,000,000 visitors annually, and features a "Kids Coliseum" play area. [ 3 ]
Developed by the Brandeis Investment Corp., Southroads opened in 1966 with an Omaha-based department store, Brandeis, and JCPenney as anchors. The mall has 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2 ) of retail space, which was modeled after the success of Omaha's Crossroads Mall , which was also developed by Brandeis.
Brandeis was Nebraska's department store. The chain had its peak in the early 1970s with 3,000 employees and $100 million in sales. [7] The Crossroads Mall store opened in 1960 with mixed results but soon took off and proved to be one of the best stores in the chain, earning an average of $38 million (~$300 million in 2023).
In 2004 a map expert using GPS and old maps identified a location near Gallup University as the location of the ferry landing. [4] Omaha Central High School , located at 124 North 20th Street, is on the site where the city's founders first met on July 4, 1854 for a celebration to found the city.
In 1983, in an attempt to revitalize retail along 16th Street in downtown, a two-story mall, Parkfair Mall, was added to the west side of Central Park Plaza, across from the J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store Building. [10] The mall closed in the early 1990s and in 2005 the current owners of the building converted the mall into a 125-stall, heated ...