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BUILT 1987 AND 1992 · 4122 LIMA ROAD · ADJACENT TO GLENBROOK SQUARE
Every successful mall of Glenbrook's generation grew a shadow: a strip of big boxes across the parking field, close enough to borrow the mall's traffic and free of the mall's rents and rules. Glenbrook Commons, on Lima Road directly beside the mall, was built in two campaigns, 1987 and 1992, originally developed by the mall's own builders, Landau & Heyman, though it passed under separate ownership and was managed by Zamias Services while the mall belonged to General Growth. Property listings put it at about 254,000 square feet. Its anchor row ran to the power-center catechism of the 1990s — Toys "R" Us, Burlington Coat Factory, Dunham's Sports — filled out with off-price and outlet tenants, an Ollie's Bargain Outlet and a Goodwill among them. The Toys "R" Us closed with its chain in 2018, and a Ross Dress for Less opened in the box in 2020, the standard succession of the form: the category killer replaced by the treasure hunt. The Commons matters to the record less for any single store than for what it proves about its era — by the end of the 1980s, even the region's dominant enclosed mall no longer contained the region's retail; half of it had already moved outside, into boxes of its own.
Sources:
- LoopNet property brochure, Glenbrook Commons, 4122 Lima Road — construction dates 1987/1992; anchor tenants.
- Alchetron/retail-directory record for Glenbrook Square — Glenbrook Commons' development by Landau & Heyman, separate ownership, Zamias management.
- BND Commercial retail portfolio — Glenbrook Commons at 254,000 square feet.
- Ross Dress for Less location record — the Fort Wayne Ross opened 2020 in the former Toys "R" Us at Glenbrook Commons.