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1973–2004 · South Bend (boundary); the Osceola test printed
At boundary size: Scottsdale Mall, South Bend, opened — the date spreads, printed whole — on 1 August 1973 in the Erskine Village record, and in 1971 in Jim Grey's account. Its anchors were L.S. Ayres, Ayr-Way (later Target), and Montgomery Ward, with more than a hundred stores at its height. It declined through the 1980s and 1990s and was demolished in 2003. Its ground was rebuilt open-air: Erskine Village, an open-air centre at 1240 E Ireland Rd, opened in 2004 with Target, Kohl's, TJ Maxx, and Ross Dress for Less among its tenants; the centre was sold at a 2019 sheriff's auction for $23,000,000 to the Cotswold Group.settled only by the parcel and Tribune records of the Ireland Road ground. For Osceola the rebuild test is a plain negative: no dead retail ground exists in the town to rebuild, there being no centre to die (art-54-4, art-54-5).
Sources: Erskine Village record; Jim Grey's South Bend account for the 1971 opening claim; sale reporting for the 2019 sheriff's auction.