Westmoreland Mall
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 Westmoreland Mall main entrance in 2025 | |
| Location | Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 40°18′04″N 79°30′29″W / 40.301°N 79.508°W |
| Address | 5256 U.S. Route 30 |
| Opened | February 28, 1977 |
| Developer | Adam Eidemiller, Inc. and The Goodman Company |
| Management | CBL Properties |
| Owner | CBL Properties |
| Stores | 170+ |
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| Floor area | 1,287,620 square feet (119,624 m2) |
| Floors | 2 (3 in the parking garage) |
| Parking | 6,436 spaces (covered and uncovered) |
Public transit |  WCTA bus: 2F, 9, 9S, 12, 20F |
| Website | westmorelandmall |
Westmoreland Mall is a two-level, enclosed super-regional shopping and casino complex in the municipality of Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh, and owned and operated by CBL Properties. It was completed in 1977 and was extensively renovated and expanded in 1993–1994.
It contains 1,287,620 square feet (119,624 m2) of retail space on 103 acres (0.4 km2) and over 170 retailers, making it the second-largest shopping complex in Western Pennsylvania in terms of square footage and the largest mall between Pittsburgh and Lancaster.[1]
It is located on the eastern side of the Greater Pittsburgh region on the heavily traveled U.S. Route 30 corridor. Adjacent to Westmoreland Mall, many big box retailers and restaurants can be found along the U.S. Route 30 and Donohoe Road retail area, which is the biggest concentration of retailers and other commercial businesses between Monroeville and Altoona.
History
Proposal
In the mid-1970s, Adam Eidemiller, Inc., the development company that owned the land at the time, initially proposed building a motel on the open acreage, but eventually decided that it was not the best use of the property. The proliferation of shopping malls during the 1970s led Eidemiller to consider developing a regional mall on the site. It contacted St. Louis-based May Department Stores Company, parent of Pittsburgh-based retailer Kaufmann's about building a mall with the department store as an anchor but was rebuffed. Eventually, Eidemiller would join forces with the Goodman Company, a real estate company owned by Murray H. Goodman, which already had experience with developing extensive projects such as Granite Run Mall near Philadelphia. Construction would begin in 1975, and Kaufmann's became the first store to open at the complex in late 1976.[2]
Opening
On February 28, 1977, the 850,000-square-foot (79,000 m2) Westmoreland Mall officially opened its doors with Kaufmann's and Sears as the anchor stores and 89 other retailers.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. originally operated a store along North Main Street in Downtown Greensburg. In the 1960s, Sears would relocate east of town to the site of what is now the Davis Center. A freestanding auto service center was also built adjacent to the main store. At the time of the mall's development, the new Sears store would be twice as large as its predecessor, and offer a larger selection of merchandise on two levels. On December 28, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 80 stores nationwide. The store closed on March 17, 2019. [3] On February 20, 2024, Dick's Sporting Goods signed a lease with Transformen Pronerties for the former Sears building, with plans to redevelop the space as a Dick's House of Sport. The store occupies the entire upper level and a portion of the lower level, while the remainder of the lower level remains vacant. It began operating with a soft opening on July 28, 2026, followed by its official grand opening on August 7, 2026.
Special events at the new mall included a visit by Mr. McFeely (played by David Newell) of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The mall's South Annex (now Westmoreland Crossing), originally anchored by Shop 'n Save, opened in 1978. As the years passed, the mall continued to grow, with the addition of Troutman's Department Store (later replaced by Pomeroy's and The Bon-Ton) and 80,000 square feet (7,000 m2) of additional retail space in 1979. By the mid-1980s, the convenience center at the South Annex was constructed, with 40,000 square feet (4,000 m2) of space for 12 to 15 new stores and restaurants. At this time, the mall was owned and operated by The Kravco Company, now Simon Property Group.[4]
By the early 1990s, significant retailer demand for additional space as well as increasing competition from Pittsburgh-area malls prompted the mall's owners to consider redeveloping the property. In response, it went through a $33 million renovation and expansion project, which began in 1993 and ended with the grand opening of JCPenney, which relocated from Greengate Mall, in 1994. The expansion also brought another 66,000 square feet (6,100 m2) for 20 new retailers and a spacious food court, as well as a two-level, 715-car parking garage and a new entrance. The tastAnother major mall addition took place in 1999, when Carmike Cinemas (now АМС Theatres) opened a new 15-screen stadium-style seating movie theater abutting the annex. The former 4-screen movie theater and a couple of adjacent shops at the mall were converted into Kaufmann's Home, which has since been renamed Macy's
Live! Casino Pittsburgh
Live! Casino Pittsburgh is a $160 million, 129,552 square foot gaming and entertainment complex at Westmoreland Mall, which was built in the former Bon-Ton building. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Baltimore-based Cordish Companies.
On August 14, 2019, officials with the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board awarded Cordish a gaming license to operate the two-story facility. Demolition began on the interior of the building in late 2019, with a groundbreaking ceremony held on November 13, 2019. Construction on the casino would be impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although the project would be completed in just one year. The casino officially opened for business on November 24, 2020, following a soft opening the week prior.
The 31,677-square-foot casino floor includes 750 slot machines and electronic table games, 33 live action table games, a 1,400-square-foot poker room with six table games, and two high-limit rooms, including a high-limit slots room and a high-limit table games room with three tables and a bar. There is parking for more than 6,000 vehicles, including a two-level, 715-car parking deck with a covered walkway to the casino.
Additionally, the casino features a FanDuel sportsbook and lounge, a 7,000-square-foot multi-use event center called The Venue Live!, a small lounge area called the Social Club, as well as several nationally recognized restaurants and live entertainment venues, including Sports & Social Steel City, Mangia featuring DeLallo and PBR Cowboy Bar Pittsburgh. The casino is accessible via exterior entrances, the parking garage as well as within the mall.
In March 2022, Cordish sold the building and ground lease to Gaming and Leisure Properties in a leaseback transaction, along with its sister property, Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia.[5]
In August 2025, it was proposed that a convention center and a hotel be added to the casino complex.[6]
References
- ↑ "Five Largest Pittsburgh-Area Shopping Malls and Centers". Pittsburgh.bizjournals.com. September 2, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ↑ "Mall changed Westmoreland lifestyle". Pittsburghlive.com. September 22, 2002. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ↑ Thomas, Lauren (December 28, 2018). [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/28/sears-
closing-80-more-stores-in-march-faces-possible-liquidation.html "Sears is closing 80 more stores in March, faces possible liquidation"]. CNBC. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
{{cite news}}: Check|url=value (help); line feed character in|url=at position 39 (help) - ↑ "Merchant: Shoppers want late hours". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. December 3, 1986. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ↑ Laura Smythe (March 3, 2022). "Penn National spinoff closes on $674M real estate deal including Live! Casino Philadelphia". Philadelphia Business Journal. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
- ↑ Live! Casino Pittsburgh Targeted for Westmoreland Convention Center and Hotel