Park Plaza Mall sits at West Markham Street and North University Avenue in Little Rock, Arkansas, with a Dillard’s store anchoring each end.
The chain’s tie to the place goes back to 1965, when a Gus Blass department store opened at the open-air Park Plaza Shopping Center. The name became Dillard’s by 1974.
When most of the old center came down in 1987 and was rebuilt as an enclosed mall, it reopened in 1988 with two Dillard’s instead of one…