Before Tri-County Mall became a vacant 76-acre redevelopment problem, it was an open-air shopping center with fountains, plantings, and long walks between storefronts.
It opened on September 26, 1960, at 11700 Princeton Pike in Springdale, Ohio, near Kemper Road and just south of Interstate 275, about 13 miles north of Fountain Square.
Opened as Tri-County Center, it grew from 51 stores and 4,000 parking spaces into one of northern Cincinnati’s key enclosed malls, with four anchors and more than 200 tenants by 1992…