Mall St. Matthews, informally known as Louisville Mall and formerly known as The Mall and The Mall in St. Matthews, is a shopping mall located near Louisville, Kentucky at 5000 Shelbyville Road (US 60) in the eastern suburb of St. Matthews.
History
Originally named simply "The Mall", the facility was the first enclosed suburban shopping mall in the state of Kentucky. It was developed by James W. Rouse through Community Research & Development, Inc. (later The Rouse Company) and opened on March 21, 1962.[2] Located next to the Watterson Expressway, the mall had A & P, Kaufman-Straus, and Rose's as its anchor stores. The JCPenney anchor store was added in a later mall expansion in the 1960s. The mall's features included a children's play area (including some turtle characters to climb on) near Rose's (which is now a food court), an oversized chess set near Kaufman-Straus, and numerous fountains. The name of the mall was changed to The Mall in St. Matthews as other malls were built, but the mall gradually declined with stores moving to newer malls. In the late 1980s, the mall name was simplified to Mall St. Matthews and remodeled to include a food court in the early 1990s, The Limited/Express, a wing dedicated to Limited Brands