Malls · Ohio

North Towne Square

Imported, unreviewedRedevelopedDemolishedToledo, OH

Opened 1980. Closed 2005. Redeveloped in 2021.

Status nowDemolishedextracted, unreviewed

documented

The mall closed in 2005, city government acquired the building in 2011 and demolished it in 2013.

en.wikipedia.org

What it becameindustrialextracted, unreviewed reported

Site size386,600 sq ft GLAEsri 2014 layer reported

Retrofit year2021extracted, unreviewed reported

Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD

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North Towne Square — Exterior view of a closed shopping center with boarded-up entrance and signage. · verified by a vision model. Photo: Joemcewan1983, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Former anchors

Montgomery Ward

This site: Montgomery Ward wikipedia · all sites with this

Ownership

Public body

This site: City of Toledo county-parcels · all sites with this

Place

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 2 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

Shrinking county

This site: -0.8% census-acs · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: …vacant land extraction · all sites with this

New use

Logistics and industrial

This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

All elements and lists · Trends

Now

Status	Demolishedextracted, unreviewed documented The mall closed in 2005, city government acquired the building in 2011 and demolished it in 2013. en.wikipedia.org
Strategy	Redevelopedextracted, unreviewed documented In 2021, the City of Toledo announced the site would be sold to NorthPoint Development with intentions to build a $70 million industrial park with a spring 2022 groundbreaking. en.wikipedia.org
New uses	industrialextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there now	vacant landextracted, unreviewed documented In 2021, the City of Toledo announced the site would be sold to NorthPoint Development with intentions to build a $70 million industrial park with a spring 2022 groundbreaking. en.wikipedia.org
Retrofit year	2021extracted, unreviewed reported
Redeveloper	NorthPoint Developmentextracted, unreviewed reported

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “North Towne Square” and “Toledo” (6 hits, first 6 sampled). No commercial-mortgage trust names this mall in the sample, which does not rule out a securitised loan. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

Kind	Filer	Filings	Dates	Forms
Public owner (strong)	SIMON PROPERTY GROUP L P /DE/	2	2001-03-30 to 2002-04-01	10-K 2
Public owner (weak)	SIMON PROPERTY GROUP INC /DE/ (SPG, SPG-PJ)	4	2002-05-17 to 2003-02-07	8-K 4

Site context

FEMA flood zone	no NFHL polygon at point (unmapped or outside coverage)FEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	4: KOEPLINGERS BAKERY; MOBIS US ELECTRIFIED POWERTRAIN LLC; MONTGOMERY WARD & COMPANY; SMOKES FOR LESSEPA FRS
Census tract 39095005705	1,617 people, 684 per sq mi; median household income $54,808; median gross rent $910; 34% renters; 6.5% vacant units; 0.0% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	4 of 6 daily needs: 2 grocers, 1 schools, 0 parks or playgrounds, 1 health, 0 civic, 2 food and drink; 1 cycleway segments, 8 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Lucas County (OH), 2024	122 units in 5+ unit buildings, 4 in 2–4, 287 single-family; 2023: 336 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.43; socioeconomic 0.70; housing and transport 0.12; 12% below 150% of poverty; 6% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	1 within 10 km, 3 within 25 km: Portside Festival Marketplace (8.2 km)computed
Overture Maps	no place match; building footprint 13,931 m², 6.008890628814697 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views	36,514 since 2015; 2,587 in the last 12 months (-4% vs the prior 12); peak 2016-12 with 513Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	very low overall (score 19.0); expected annual loss $756,092; community resilience very highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	20,692 jobs in 1,350 establishments; average annual pay $37,546; employment location quotient 1.07; employment -1.6% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	2,366 jobs; 159 in retail trade, 186 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 39095005705)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 40th income percentile as adults; 1.9% incarcerated at the 2010 count (549 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; 3% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 22.2%; median family income $55,692; 347 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Washington Local School District (PK-12); 0 public schools within 1 mileNCES EDGE
Elevation	597 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	119 county-logged events: 85 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado; $15,976,000 property damage reported; 1 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 43612, 2026-09	median list price $119,900 (+2.0% on the year); 55 active listings; median 40 days on market; 14% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	1,333 establishments (-8%); 22,356 jobs (-3%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $176,069 (+5% 1 yr, +32% 5 yr); typical rent $1,198/mo (+6% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025	240 (2000 = 100); -5.3% 1 yr, +68% 5 yr, +89% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	24,168 vehicles a day on E ALEXIS RD (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 1,479 trucks; 22 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

Summary, model-written

North Towne Square opened in 1980 as a Simon Property Group–developed mall, operated until its closure in 2005 after being sold in 2002. The City of Toledo acquired the building in 2011, demolished it in 2013, and in 2021 announced a sale to NorthPoint Development for an industrial park on the vacant site.

Why. The record does not specify reasons for the mall’s decline or demolition, such as anchor store loss, competition, or debt.

Where it stands. The site is currently vacant land; the City of Toledo owned it from 2011 to 2013 and announced a sale to NorthPoint Development in 2021 for industrial use.

For a planner

Precedent: conversion of a demolished mall to industrial use after municipal acquisition.
Policy tools used: city acquisition, demolition, and negotiated sale to a private developer.
Open questions: final zoning approvals, environmental review status, and community impact mitigation.

For a developer

Site size: 386,600 sq ft of former GLA.
Control: vacant land under pending sale to NorthPoint Development (announced 2021).
Entitlement stage: sale announced; detailed site plan and permits not shown in record.
Constraints: not specified in the record (flood, transit, environmental).
Market signals: not specified in the record.

What we do not know yet

Missing anchor tenant and lease details that could explain closure.
No information on local competition or market conditions at time of decline.
Environmental conditions, flood risk, and transit access are not described.
Post‑2021 ownership status and completion of the sale to NorthPoint Development are unverified.
Several fields are model‑extracted and the record is flagged as draft, indicating potential data quality issues.

Generated by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b on NVIDIA API via Hermes CT from the fields, parcels, deals and context layers on this page, with no outside knowledge. It is regenerated when the record changes and has not been checked by a person. How it is made.

Similar sites

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Southwyck Mall, Toledo, OH · Malls · closed 2008; same strategy: redevelop; also in OH
Lockport Mall, South Lockport, NY · Malls · similar GLA (340,000 sq ft); closed 2006; same strategy: redevelop

Elsewhere on the web

Pages with photos

North Towne Square - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia alchetron.com
North Towne Square en-academic.com
Dead and Dying retail: North Towne Square Mall in Toledo, Ohio deadanddyingretail.com
Toledo’s NorthTowne Sq… amazon.com
North Towne Square Mall in Toledo, Ohio | This m… flickr.com
City of Toledo sells former North Towne Square Mall property nbc24.com
North Towne Square Mall: Toledo, Ohio on DeadMalls.com deadmalls.com

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History and original facts

Opened	1980Wikidata
Closed	2005extracted, unreviewed documented The mall closed in 2005, city government acquired the building in 2011 and demolished it in 2013. en.wikipedia.org
Gross leasable area	386,600 sq ftEsri 2014 layer reported
Stores at peak	14Esri 2014 layer reported
Original developer	Simon Property Groupextracted, unreviewed documented North Towne Square was developed in 1980 by Simon Property Group of Indianapolis, Indiana. en.wikipedia.org
Anchors	Builder's Square, Target, Sam's Club, Montgomery Ward, Lasalle's, The Lion Store
Address	SEC of Alexis & Lewis Rds.
County	Lucas
Census division	3 · East North Central
Notes	Wikipedia categories: Demolished shopping malls in the United States

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Background

NorthTowne Square, briefly known as Lakeside Centre, was a shopping mall in Toledo, Ohio developed by Simon Property Group.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1980 Opened (Wikidata)
1980 Developed by Simon Property Group
1981 Mall opened
2002 Sold by Simon Property Group
2005 Mall closed
2011 City of Toledo acquired building
2013 Building demolished
2021 Announced sale to NorthPoint Development for industrial park

Sources

Wikipedia: North Towne Square · supports: after notes, original developer, status, strategy, year closed
12 quoted sentences
The mall closed in 2005, city government acquired the building in 2011 and demolished it in 2013.
North Towne Square was developed in 1980 by Simon Property Group of Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 2021, the City of Toledo announced the site would be sold to NorthPoint Development with intentions to build a $70 million industrial park with a spring 2022 groundbreaking.
The mall closed in 2005, city government acquired the building in 2011 and demolished it in 2013.
Esri StoryMaps: Closed_US_Malls feature layer (2014) · 2014-10-02

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "North Towne Square, Toledo, OH." Record m-d3d67274ab, imported, unreviewed. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/oh/toledo-north-towne-square/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_toledonorthtownesquare,
  title = {North Towne Square, Toledo, OH},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/oh/toledo-north-towne-square/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-d3d67274ab, release 2026.10.20, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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