North Hills Village

North Hills Village is a shopping plaza located along McKnight Rd. in Ross Township. 

History of North Hills Village In Ross Township

Owned by J.J. Gumberg Co. since 1986, North Hills Village opened as a strip mall in 1957, with Gimbels as its centerpiece anchor tenant. It was enclosed in 1976 before reverting to a strip mall in 1996.

In 1984, Gimbels department store, which had been in the complex for 27 years and was the largest store there, announced it would move into Ross Park Mall, then under construction, when its lease expired in 1986. Merchants expressed confidence that the mall would survive the loss although it might become a discount mall.

It was confirmed in July 1987 that it would become a "value-orientated center" with four anchor stores: Burlington Coat Factory, Hills Department Stores, T.J. Maxx, and Marshalls.

In 1996, renovation began on the south end of the mall to return it to a strip mall with large specialty stores that had entrances that opened directly onto the parking lot while the northern end of the mall was to remain enclosed; the mall would then have a total of 490,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of retail space. Further work took place to return the mall to a strip mall in 2005 with the mall's center court becoming part of a larger Burlington Coat Factory store.

The size of the mall was then 616,460 square feet (57,271 m2) of gross leasable area with the anchor stores being Burlington Coat Factory, Kohl's, Shop 'n Save, Best Buy, and Staples. Other stories in the mall included Taco Bell, Applebee's, Duro Cleaners and Millennium Oriental Buffet, and 10 smaller stores.  A new 125,000-square-foot (11,600 m2) Target store was built in 2006 on the site vacated by Burlington Coat Factory.

Source: North Hills Village on Wikipedia