Park Lane Mall

Park Lane Mall, originally Park Lane Centre, was a shopping center in Reno, Nevada, at South Virginia Street and Plumb Lane. It cost $10 million to build and opened in phases in 1965–1967 as an open-air mall with 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of gross leasable area. As it grew, became the leading area mall. Original architects were Victor Gruen Associates and Charles Luckman Associates. At the main opening ceremonies on March 9, 1967, it had 23 stores, with anchors:
Full-line department stores:[2]

  • Sears, opened in 1965 before the rest of the mall, 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) – 3 times the size of its store in Downtown Reno
  • Weinstock's department store that (not part of the 23 stores open in March 1967; it opened in Summer 1967) – three floors, 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2), air-conditioned, decorated in Portuguese marble at ground level
Park Lane Mall
LocationReno, Nevada, U.S.
AddressPlumb Lane at South Virginia Street
Previous namesPark Lane Centre
DeveloperBen Edwards and A. J. Flagg
No. of stores and services84
No. of anchor tenants2
Total retail floor area550,000 square feet (51,000 m2)[1]
No. of floors1

Specialty department stores:

The rest of the specialty stores or "main mall", was completed in 1967.

By the mid-1990s, Sears, Weinstocks, and Joseph Magnin had closed, and its competitor Meadowood Mall, more than double its size, had taken over as the city's most popular mall. ParkLane added Gottschalks department store and a new movie theater, but continued in decline until closing in January 2007. The mall stood empty until Reno Land bought it after the Great Recession.[6]

The site is to be used for a new mixed-use project, Reno Experience District with a mix of 1,300 luxury apartments, a 170-room hotel, more than 70,000 square feet (6,500 m2) of retail space, a market hall with a coworking loft, a tech campus of 382,000 square feet (35,500 m2), and a 1-acre (0.40 ha) park.[6]

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