Glendale Town Center
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Glendale Town Center aka Glendale Mall or Glendale Center Mall is located at 6101 North Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis. The mall was built in 1958 as an open air shopping center and was designed by Victor Gruen and Associates. When the 685000 square feet (63,638.6 m²) Glendale Shopping Center opened, it was the premier retail center in Indianapolis and boasted an impressive array of upscale retailers. After being converted to a covered mall for several decades, the original mall was demolished March 1, 2007, and it returned to being an open-air shopping center in early 2008. The original anchors were L. S. Ayres and William H. Block
William H. Block
The William H. Block Company was founded by Herman Wilhelm Bloch who immigrated from Austro-Hungary in 1874 and had Americanized his name to William H. Block, with the opening of a retail store located at 9 East Washington Street in Indianapolis in 1896. The company was also self identified as The...

. Other tenants included Davidson's Furs, Hook's Drug Stores
Hook's Drug Stores
Hook's Drug Stores was an Indianapolis, Indiana-based drug store chain which was founded in 1900 by John A. Hook. The chain flourished throughout central Indiana for most of the 20th-century before being acquired by Revco which was in turn acquired by CVS. Many former Hook's locations are now CVS...

, Paul Harris, Morrison's, Sam's Subway, Roderick St. John, B Dalton, L. Strauss & Co.
L. Strauss & Co.
L. Strauss & Co. was a distinctly upscale department store chain headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The store was founded in 1853 and declared bankruptcy 140 years later in 1993. The store originally was named the Eagle Clothing Company. Eagle Clothing became one of the city's retailing...

, Goodman Jewelers, McNamara Florists, Lieber's, G.C. Murphy, Standard Food, and Graham's of Glendale. The building is currently owned by Kite Realty

Current Anchors

  • Macy's
    Macy's
    Macy's is a U.S. chain of mid-to-high range department stores. In addition to its flagship Herald Square location in New York City, the company operates over 800 stores in the United States...

     formerly L. S. Ayres
  • Target
    Target Corporation
    Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...

  • Lowe's
    Lowe's
    Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a U.S.-based chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores. Founded in 1946 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the chain now serves more than 14 million customers a week in its 1,710 stores in the United States and 20 in Canada. Expansion into Canada began in...

  • Staples
  • Landmark Theatres
    Landmark Theatres
    Landmark Theatres is the largest art house movie theater chain in the United States. It is owned by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner through their 2929 Entertainment. The chain shows mostly first run independent, foreign film, and restored classics though some Landmark theaters also show more mainstream...


Former anchors

  • L. S. Ayres
  • William H. Block
    William H. Block
    The William H. Block Company was founded by Herman Wilhelm Bloch who immigrated from Austro-Hungary in 1874 and had Americanized his name to William H. Block, with the opening of a retail store located at 9 East Washington Street in Indianapolis in 1896. The company was also self identified as The...

  • Lazarus
    Lazarus (department store)
    F&R Lazarus & Company — commonly known as Lazarus — was a regional department store retail chain operating primarily in the U.S. Midwest, and based in Columbus, Ohio...

  • G.C. Murphy
  • Old Navy
    Old Navy
    Old Navy is an American clothing brand as well as a chain of stores owned by Gap, Inc., with corporate operations in San Francisco and San Bruno, California. It is one of the first major corporations to house headquarters in the new Mission Bay district of San Francisco.Gap, Inc. was run by...

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