A strong Indiana wind still blows across the parking lots along U.S. 31 in Greenwood. In the mid-1960s, shopping here meant going out into that weather between stores.
Atkinson & Company built the Greenwood Shopping Center as an outdoor mall on 87 acres, spending about $25 million to build it.
By 1966, it was fully open. Greenwood was a quiet suburb with just under 10,000 people, but the shopping center was built to help the area grow as people moved south from Indianapolis…