Unlike 2017, the vote in the mid-1970's to rezone the property was met with much hesitation and many opponents. Of course, it was eventually brought to a vote in the form of issue 22-C in November 1973, and the issue passed by about 66% of the vote. The property was rezoned from industrial to retail.
The mall went on to be built and opened in March, 1977. It lost a main anchor in 1998, and this propelled the eventual decline, but was certainly not the only reason. The last real tenant, Dillard's outlet store, left in 2013. This mall never even received the major makeovers that other malls saw in the 1990's, such as the addition of a food court.
There was some re-designing of signage in an attempt to modernize the mall, as well as some interior cosmetic changes, but the Euclid Square Mall structure, by and large, still smacks of 1977.
At least, for now.
The mall never should have been built. The best use of that land (along with the apartment developments on the other side of E 260th would have been industrial. The population of Euclid and surrounding communities was declining and there already was plenty of retail.
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