# Reisterstown Road Plaza

Baltimore, MD · mall · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-07f7b9e135` · release 2026-10-22

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/md/baltimore-reisterstown-road-plaza/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-07f7b9e135.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-07f7b9e135.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-07f7b9e135

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | operating | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Strategy | reinhabit | none |
| New use | civic, education, office, retail | none |
| What is there now | shopping center and mall... houses a satellite campus of Baltimore City Community College, CJIS, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Maryland Board of Nursing and the office of vital records for the state of Maryland. | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Opened | 1962 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Retrofit year | 1986 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Anchors

Modell's Sporting Goods, Giant, Hechinger, Home Depot, Marshalls, Big Lots, Hecht's, Burlington, Shoppers World, Petco, Stewarts, Five Below, Stewart's / Caldor, Zayre / Ames

## Timeline

- 1962: The Reisterstown Road Plaza opened.
- 1962: Opened
- 1983: Nearby Metro Subway opened.
- 1986: A two-story office center at the Plaza was completed.
- 1986: Retrofit: reinhabit
- 1991: The Plaza underwent a 125,000-square-foot expansion.
- 1997: A fire damaged a section of the Plaza, forcing Woolworths to close.
- 2001: Home Depot announced it would open a store in a new building behind the mall.
- 2020: Modell's Sporting Goods announced closure of all stores, including the Plaza location.

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

The Reisterstown Road Plaza, usually known since its inception simply as "The Plaza," is a shopping center and mall located near the Reisterstown Plaza Metro Subway Station. Originally built as an outdoor shopping center (with two parallel rows of stores between the original anchors Hecht's and Stewarts), it was later converted into an indoor mall, and then expanded with big box stores in an outdoor shopping area.  The Reisterstown Road Plaza opened in 1962. The anchor stores are Home Depot, Five Below, Petco, Marshalls, Giant, Shoppers World, and Big Lots.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisterstown_Road_Plaza

## Sources

- Reisterstown Road Plaza — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisterstown_Road_Plaza

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Reisterstown Road Plaza, Baltimore, MD." Record n-07f7b9e135, release 2026-10-22, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/md/baltimore-reisterstown-road-plaza/ (accessed 2026-10-22).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_baltimorereisterstownroadplaza,
  title = {Reisterstown Road Plaza, Baltimore, MD},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/md/baltimore-reisterstown-road-plaza/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-07f7b9e135, release 2026-10-22, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-22}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.