Mall St. Matthews on the day it debuted
The mall opened on March 21, 1962, at 5000 Shelbyville Road in St. Matthews, Kentucky. The site covered 67 acres and sat about 7 miles east of downtown Louisville.
The location was adjacent to the Watterson Expressway (Interstate 264), which had recently expanded and become accessible to the Shelbyville Road corridor in the early 1960s.
At opening, the property was called “The Mall.” It was Kentucky’s first enclosed, climate-controlled suburban shopping center. The James W. Rouse Company developed the project…