City View Center


City View Center was a power center in Garfield Heights, Ohio. It held big-box stores such as Walmart, Giant Eagle, Circuit City, PetSmart, Jo-Ann Fabrics, Dick's Sporting Goods, Bed Bath & Beyond, OfficeMax, and AJ Wright.
The shopping center is now considered a dead mall, after issues related to a landfill underlying the site began to affect the structural integrity of some buildings.

History

The shopping center opened in 2006, after two years of construction. After the big-box stores opened, construction began outside the main plaza for additional restaurants and retail, such as Radio Shack, Applebee's, Steak n Shake, Ruby Tuesday, and FirstMerit. The first store to close was the JOANN Fabrics on January 15, 2008. On September 15, 2008, Walmart Stores Inc. announced that it would be closing the Garfield Heights Wal-Mart store permanently because of ongoing safety concerns at the site, including structural problems and potentially explosive methane gas related to the disused landfill beneath the site; this closure was preceded by Jo-Ann Fabrics on January 15, 2008. After Walmart's closure, on October 2, 2008, Petsmart announced that they would be also closing their store. Shortly after, the Circuit City store closed on December 31, 2008.. In December 2009, both Bed Bath And Beyond and Dicks Sporting Goods closed. In March 2010, plans to convert the former Wal-Mart into a convention center were cancelled. Marshalls closed in 2013. The second to last tenant, OfficeMax, announced that they would be closing their store by November 14, 2015. As of 2020, Giant Eagle is the only remaining store in the Transportation Boulevard complex. Applebee's also remains open.
As of February 2018, empty buildings on the site were being considered as replacement facilities for Garfield Heights' police department, court, and jail.
In May 2019, then-owner of the site, City View LLC, failed to pay back an $81 million loan, and the site was placed into receivership.
In April 2020, the mortgage on property was acquired by Industrial Commercial Properties, LLC, which plans to redevelop the site as a business park.