From Sears Park to Park Place Mall
In the days preceding the mall, its branding and logo, Broadway and Wilmot met there as a grudging, simple compromise, a patched edge between quiet houses and advancing retail now.
In 1965, Tucson got a brand-new Sears department store, opening on September 1 with the kind of optimism only mid-century retail could muster.
The neighbors south of the site, living in quiet residential streets, were less enthused about a commercial beachhead creeping toward their cul-de-sacs…