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* Roger's Toy Shop
* Roger's Toy Shop
* Plaza Gift Shop
* Plaza Gift Shop
==Phase Two (1960)==
* Liberty Super Market
* Baker's Shoes
* S. S. Kresge (later K-Mart)
* [[Birmingham Trunk Factory]]
* New Williams
* [[Gordon Jewelers]]
* [[Dewberry Drug]]
* [[Olan Mills Photo Studio]]
==Phase Three (1961)==
* Pay Less Family Shoe Store
* Stag Men's Shop
* Peter Pan Children's Shop
* [[Fred Sington's]]
* [[Perfection Laundry]]
* [[Roebuck Shoe Rebuilders]]
* [[Roebuck Beauty Salon]]
* [[Jim Chism Barber Shop]]
* Pan Cake House


===Later===
===Later===
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* Shoe Carnival
* Shoe Carnival
* Simply Fashions
* Simply Fashions
* S. S. Kresge (later K-Mart)
* Super Wal-Mart ([[2004]]–)
* Super Wal-Mart ([[2004]]–)
* [[Watkins Book Shop]] ([[1973]]–[[1994]])
* [[Watkins Book Shop]] ([[1973]]–[[1994]])

Revision as of 14:59, 1 February 2011

Roebuck Marketplace (originally Roebuck Plaza Shopping Center, later Roebuck Shopping City) is a 167,140-square-foot shopping center located at U.S. Highway 11 just northwest of the Roebuck Municipal Golf Course and near the Parkway East exit of I-59. It was developed by the National Plazas Company of New York and opened on March 14, 1957 at a cost of $2.5 million.

The grand opening ceremony was presided over by Mayor of Birmingham Jimmy Morgan with music from the Woodlawn High School marching band conducted by Gerald Smith. It opened with 21 tenants and parking spaces for 1,200 cars.

Pizitz Roebuck Plaza opened just southwest of the original shopping center in 1960. The Bowl-O-Bama 48-lane bowling center was added, just west of the Roebuck Drive-In Theater, in 1961.

From March 15-19, 1967 the shopping center hosted a display of life-size replica dinosaurs from the 1964 World's Fair presented by Sinclair Oil.

The center was renovated in 1995 as the "Roebuck Marketplace" by Real Estate Southeast LLC of Prattville. A Super Wal-Mart opened near the shopping center in 2004. Cohen Commercial Properties purchased the center later that year and placed it under the management of American Commercial Realty. American Commercial Realty itself owns the 64,000-square-foot former Pizitz building.

In September 2010 Cohen announced a full redevelopment of the shopping center with new outparcel sites.

Tenants

Original

Phase Two (1960)

Phase Three (1961)

Later

References

  • "Roebuck Marketplace shopping center sold to Cohen Commercial" (December 23, 2004) Birmingham Business Journal
  • Cooper, Lauren B. (September 28, 2010) "Cohen plans redevelopment of Roebuck Marketplace." Birmingham Business Journal

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