Oct 21, 2018 1 min read

Washington Mall is among 11 existing shopping malls in a five-county region of Southwestern Pennsylvania (Washington, Greene, Allegheny, Fayette and Westmoreland). Nine of the 11 were built before the millennium. Block Northway, in Allegheny County, is the oldest, dating to 1953, when it was a strip mall.

Here are the years those 11 first welcomed shoppers:

Block Northway ………… 1953

South Hills Village ……… 1965

Washington Mall ……….. 1968

Monroeville Mall ………… 1969

Wash. Crown Center …… 1969

Uniontown Mall ………….. 1972

Westmoreland Mall ……… 1977

Century III Mall ………….. 1979

Ross Park Mall …………… 1986

Mall at Robinson …………. 2002

Tanger Outlets …………… 2008