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==Tenants==
==Tenants==
===Original===
===Original===
* J. C. Penney (later Goody's Family Clothing)
* 9116: former location of [[Western Auto Supply Co.]] (1959)
* A & P Super Market
* 9118: former location of [[Utopia Cleaners]] (1959)
* Kenney Shoes
* 9122: former location of [[Kroger]] supermarket (1959)
* Lane-Rexall Drugs
* 9126: former location of [[First National Bank of Birmingham Roebuck Plaza Branch]] (1959)
* Terry Town
* 9128: former location of [[Roebuck Barber Shop]] (1959)
* W. T. Grant & Co. (enlarged in 1966], rebuilt as [[Cinema City 8]] in 1978, then [[Winn-Dixie]], which closed in 2004)
* 9130: former location of [[Johnny Ray's Barbecue]] (1959)
* [[Johnny Ray's]] barbecue
* 9134: former location of [[W. T. Grant Co.]] department store (1959), enlarged in 1966, [[Cinema City 8]] (1978-), [[Winn-Dixie]] supermarket (closed 2004)
* [[First National Bank of Birmingham]]
* 9138: former location of [[Roger's Toy Shop]] (1959)
* Kroger Super Market
* 9140: former location of [[Terry Town]] children's clothes (1959)
* [[Utopia Cleaners]]
* 9142: former location of [[Lane-Rexall Drug Store]] (1959)
* Western Auto
* 9146: former location of [[G. R. Kinney Co.]] shoes (1959)
* Bell Bros. Shoes
* 9148: former location of [[Three Sisters]] ladies' clothes (1959)
* Stein's
* 9150: former location of [[J. C. Penney]] department store (1959), [[Goody's Family Clothing]]
* [[Woolworth's]] (later [[Golbro]])
* 9156: former location of [[Bell Bros.]] shoes (1959)
* Sikes and Bratton Shoes
* 9158: former location of [[Stein Stores]] men's clothes (1959)
* Lawless Shoppe (later [[Jones-Lawless]])
* 9162: former location of [[F. W. Woolworth Co.]] (1959), [[Golbro]]
* [[Marsh Bakers]]
* 9166: former location of [[Sikes & Bratton Shoe Co.]] (1959)
* Roger's Toy Shop
* 9168: former location of [[Lawless Shoppe]] clothing (1959), [[Jones-Lawless]]
* Plaza Gift Shop
* 9170: former location of [[Plaza Gift Shop]] (1959)
* 9172: former location of [[Marsh Bakers]] (1959)
* 9176: former location of [[A & P Supermarket]] (1959)


===Phase Two (1960)===
===Phase Two (1960)===

Revision as of 16:01, 29 December 2019

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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.

The center was first proposed in 1955. The Birmingham City Commission held a public rezoning hearing at which numerous residents of the area objecting to the plans. R. E. Lindbergh voted against re-zoning, but was over-ruled by Jimmy Morgan and Wade Bradley. State law required a 3/4ths majority to rezone land where more than 20 percent of owners of properties within 500 feet objected, but the matter was shown as approved in the minutes and, though Lindbergh refused to sign them, did not have the support to win a vote to change them. The result was approval of the rezoning without the required majority.

The original shopping center opened on March 14, 1957. It was developed by the National Plazas Company of New York at a cost of $2.5 million. The grand opening ceremony was presided over by Mayor 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 and a Liberty Super Market opened adjacent to the center in 1960, along with a second phase of construction to accommodate seven more retail tenants, including S. S. Kresge.

Architect's rendering for the 1961 addition

Nine more tenants were accommodated in a third phase of development in 1961. The new $250,000 building was developed by Barco, Inc., headed by Mervyn Barstein. It was designed by Harry Hester and built by the Brice Building Company. It featured air conditioning, fire sprinklers, and piped-in mood music. A Bowl-O-Bama 48-lane bowling center was added just west of the Roebuck Drive-In Theater the same year.

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

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