Location Ontario, Ohio, U.S. Developer Jacobs Visconsi Jacobs No. of anchor tenants 3 Phone +1 419-529-4003 | Opening date 1969 No. of stores and services 70+ Opened 1969 Owner Madison Marquette | |
Total retail floor area 733,633 square feet (68,156.7 m) Address 2209 Richland Mall, Mansfield, OH 44906, USA Hours Closing soon · 10AM–9PMWednesday10AM–9PMThursday10AM–9PMFriday10AM–9PMSaturday10AM–9PMSunday12–6PMMonday10AM–9PMTuesday10AM–9PMSuggest an edit Similar Midway Mall, Lima Mall, Findlay Village Mall, Indian Mound Mall, Sandusky Mall Profiles | ||
Richland Mall is a shopping mall in Ontario, Ohio, near the city of Mansfield, Ohio. Opened in 1969, the mall features J. C. Penney, Macy's, and Sears. It is managed by Madison Marquette.
History
The mall opened in 1969 in the Mansfield suburb of Ontario near US 30. It occupied a 64-acre site, with Lazarus, Sears, and O'Neil's (later May Company Ohio, then Kaufmann's) as its anchor stores. Jacobs Visconsi Jacobs developed the property, and first announced it in 1966. The Lazarus store was their first location outside the Columbus, Ohio market.
A 1997 expansion added J. C. Penney and 108,000 square feet of retail space. The Lazarus store was re-branded Lazarus-Macy's in 2003, and then just Macy's in 2005. Only a year later, Macy's relocated from the former Lazarus to the former Kaufmann's. Macy's previous location in the old Lazarus was later repurposed as a haunted house. The mall in 2002 was renamed by Westfield Group as Westfield Shoppingtown Richland for a period of time, is once again called Richland Mall following a name change in 2006. In late 2012, it was announced that Avita Health System would open a hospital in the abandoned Lazarus.
In 2015, a judge ordered a sale of the mall after its then-owners accumulated $37 million in debts. In early February 2017, the whole Avita Ontario project was done including a emergency room, doctors offices, and a urgent care.