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University Park Mall, Across the Line

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Opened 14 March 1979 · 6501 Grape Rd, Mishawaka (boundary entry — the line stated)

The line is stated first: this mall sits in Mishawaka, and it enters the Osceola record at boundary size because it is the regional mall the township actually used. University Park Mall opened on 14 March 1979, developed by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation with George and Donald Cressy, at an estimated cost of $35 million; it is a Simon Property Group centre today. The anchor dates of its opening season: Sears opened 1 March 1979, the mall itself 14 March 1979, L.S. Ayres 6 May 1979, and Hudson's 7 February 1980. Its present anchors are JCPenney, Macy's, and Barnes & Noble, with the Sears box vacant since the store's 2019 closing. Two spreads in its record print whole: Hudson's became Marshall Field's in 1997 in the mall's main reference record and in 2001 in a mirror of it; and the food court was added in 1995 in the reference record, against a 62,000-square-foot food court dated 1996 in the centre's 45th-anniversary account. The Village — the lifestyle concourse built on the demolished Marshall Field's ground — belongs to art-54-9's succession. The mall's 45th anniversary fell on 14 March 2024. Osceola's share of University Park is the customer's share, stated once here for the whole boundary set: it is the mall Penn Township drove to.

Sources: University Park Mall reference record and the centre's 45th-anniversary account (March 2024), conflicts printed whole.

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Source: University Park Mall, Across the Line, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/malls/cross-line-mall-as-a-boundary-entry-university-park/