Florence Mall and the interstate’s promise
In the mid-1970s, northern Kentucky was still finding out how fast a new highway could change a town. Florence Mall was built with that in mind.
It was put up along Interstate 75 just south of Kentucky Route 18, about five miles from the Ohio border, right where people driving by could easily stop and shop.
Homart Development Company, which was part of Sears, Roebuck and Company, built the project as a two-story indoor mall with 963,000 square feet of space…