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5838–5948 GRAPE ROAD · OPENED 1987 · ACROSS THE TOLL ROAD FROM THE MALL
The mall's first satellite was Indian Ridge: the compiled mall record names it directly — "one of the first was Indian Ridge Plaza, located across the Indiana Toll Road from the mall." The center opened in 1987 with a T. J. Maxx, eight years after the mall it rings, on Grape Road's far side of the highway at 5838–5948 Grape. The corridor's land market was already institutional: a sale agreement of October 1999, preserved in a contracts database, carried Indian Ridge from First Capital Institutional Real Estate to Chase Shopping Centers for $15 million. Circuit City held a box in the plaza in the electronics chain's years; its former space was still a reference point in the corridor's retail reporting in October 2009, after the chain's collapse. The center's most recent anchor event is printed at the strength of its source, a company release: on 20 September 2024 Dunham's Sports opened a store of 110,000 square feet — billed by the chain as its largest — at an address in Indian Ridge's band, 5851 Grape Road, under the name "The Crossings Mall." Whether that name marks a rebranding of the plaza or a portion of it is not resolved in the sources reached, and the entry prints the release's own words rather than settle it.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune, 5 June 1987, as carried in the corridor record — Indian Ridge Plaza opened in 1987 with T. J. Maxx; the plaza across the Indiana Toll Road from University Park Mall.
- Sale agreement, October 1999 (contracts database) — First Capital Institutional Real Estate to Chase Shopping Centers, $15 million.
- South Bend Tribune retail reporting, October 2009 — the former Circuit City space at Indian Ridge as a corridor reference point.
- Dunham's Sports company release, September 2024 — the 110,000-square-foot store, billed as the chain's largest, opened 20 September 2024 at "The Crossings Mall," 5851 Grape Road.