Several Dayton Mall store renovations and relocations are nearly complete and one store reopened Monday as mall retailers gear up for the holiday shopping season.
“This has been a record-setting year for remodels, expansions, relocations and new stores,” said Dayton Mall General Manager Dave Duebber. “That says a lot about the Dayton Mall, and it says a lot about the whole market.”
The changes, Dubber said, include:
• Bath & Body Works, which had been closed temporarily during a relocation, reopened Monday, Duebber said. The store is now located next to a recently expanded Victoria’s Secret, which shares the same corporate parent — L Brands — as Bath & Body Works.
• H&M, an international fashion retailer based in Sweden, will open its 21,000-square-foot store by early November. The retailer opened its first Dayton-area location in the Mall at Fairfield Commons in June. When the company first announced its Dayton Mall location in April, Duebber called H&M “one of those catalyst tenants that can open the doors to a lot of other retailers.” H&M built out space that included a former movie cinema between Elder-Beerman and Macy’s that had been vacant for about two decades.
• Kay Jewelers is expanding to take over the former Sunglass Hut storefront after the Sunglass Hut moved into a kiosk in the mall. The jewelry store is currently in temporary space in what was once Ruby Tuesday, but is scheduled to reopen in its former, and newly expanded, location in early November.
• LIDS Sports group will open a new team-sports apparel store adjacent to the existing Cardboard Heroes store by Nov. 1. The Indianapolis-based LIDS Sports bought out Dayton-based CardBoard Heroes in June.
This year’s activity follows two consecutive years of the Dayton Mall landing high-profile tenants: Dick’s Sporting Goods moved into an expanded 50,000-square-foot anchor-store space in 2012. In 2013, an hh gregg electronics store followed suit. Both stores left locations on Ohio 741/Springboro Pike.
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