SouthPark Mall

SouthPark Mall sits on land a former Cleveland Browns owner once wanted for a football stadium: Art Modell’s plan was exposed by local media in the 1980s and scrapped, and developer Richard E. Jacobs Group built a $200 million enclosed mall on the site instead, opening in October 1996. Dick’s House of Sport, Dillard’s, JCPenney and Macy’s anchor the centre, alongside a 14-screen Cinemark.

Dillard’s occupies the renamed Higbee’s store, and Macy’s occupies the former May Company location, which traded as Kaufmann’s for a decade before its 2006 conversion to Macy’s, tracing the centre’s anchor stack directly back to Cleveland’s two historic department-store chains. Kohl’s holds a fifth anchor position on the outlying perimeter road rather than inside the enclosed mall itself.

Westfield Group owned the centre from 2002 to 2012, when it sold to Starwood Capital Group; Starwood in turn sold to a company related to Kize Capital in 2021 for $57.7 million, with Spinoso Real Estate Group now managing operations. The Commons at SouthPark, a $14 million redevelopment of a former Giant Eagle site, added DSW, Michaels and CoreLife Eatery in 2016.

Positioned at Royalton Road and Interstate 71 in Strongsville, a Cleveland suburb, the centre remains one of Northern Ohio’s largest enclosed retail destinations. For a brand assessing Cleveland, SouthPark’s October 2025 Dick’s House of Sport addition signals a landlord still investing in large-format anchors rather than subdividing space.