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The building was long home to the flagship store of the Famous-Barr chain of department stores — and the headquarters of its parent company May Department Stores — until Macy's purchased the brand; the store was rebranded as Macy's in 2006. [4] Macy's sold the building in 2008 [5] and closed the store in 2013. [6]
Rollman's (Cincinnati) Downtown store location—N.W. corner of 5th and Vine Streets—was taken over by Mabley & Carew after primary and branch Rollman's stores were liquidated in the early 1960s [402] Rudin's (Mount Vernon), sold to Uhlman's in 1979 [403] John Shillito Company (Cincinnati), division of Federated Department Stores.
The Famous-Barr Co. (originally Famous and Barr Co.) was a division of Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores). Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri , in the Railway Exchange Building , it was the flagship store of The May Department Stores Company , which was acquired by Federated on August 30, 2005.
Junior anchors included local department stores Vandervoort's (opened in 1965) [11] and Boyd's (an upscale apparel store), a Walgreens pharmacy, and a two-story Woolworth dime store. [12] The Famous-Barr (later Macy's) store also featured a rotunda. In 1969, a 12-story 194,000 sq ft (18,000 m 2) adjacent office tower was added to the mall. [13]
The store was founded in 1892 by Charles Stix, brothers Julius Baer and Sigmond Baer, and Aaron Fuller. It was a public company , with its stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange . The company was a longtime member of the American Merchandising Companies ("AMC"), a trade association of important, locally owned department stores across the ...
Famous-Barr opened their store in 1981 on the site of the future Mid Rivers Mall. The mall was finished in 1987 with two anchor stores, Dillard's and Famous-Barr, as well as a food court; a 6-screen cinema opened in 1988. [6] The 1990 expansion of Mid Rivers Mall included a new anchor store, Sears.
May Centers, a subsidiary of The May Department Stores Company, which then owned the St. Louis, Missouri-based department store Famous-Barr, announced plans to build Northland Shopping Center in 1954. Under these plans, a four-story 325,000-square-foot (30,200 m 2) Famous-Farr store would be the central anchor store.
Famous-Barr became Macy's in 2006. [7] The same year, the Dillard's store was expanded by 80,000 square feet (7,400 m 2). [8] On December 28, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 80 stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2019. [9] In late 2020, the mall experienced two shootings.