Malls · Ohio

Tower Place Mall

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Tower Place Mall opened in 1991 with 220k sq ft and 32 stores; its fate and current status are unknown. · summary, model-written

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Finance and pipeline

High attention (20k+ Wikipedia views a year)

This site: 20,735 wikimedia · all sites with this

Place

100k+ jobs within 45 min by transit

This site: 273,454 epa-walkability · all sites with this

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 km

This site: 925 units in 7 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with this

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 126,499 on IR 71 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Bike network nearby

This site: 185 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

County lost 10%+ of retail establishments since 2012

This site: -11% census-cbp · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 9 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High tornado risk

This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this

Interstate or freeway within 600 m

This site: IR 71 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

National Register place within 500 m

This site: Davidson, Tyler, Fountain; Cincinnati Gymnasium and Athletic Club nps-nrhp · all sites with this

Opportunity Zone

This site: 39061026500 hud-oz · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 87% census-acs · all sites with this

Tract income up 60%+ since 2013

This site: +87% census-acs · all sites with this

Tract population up 25%+ since 2013

This site: +52% census-acs · all sites with this

Walkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)

This site: …index 18.3 epa-walkability · all sites with this

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Now

Status	Status not verifiedWikipedia reported

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	34: ALLRIGHT PARKING; AT&T NETWORK SYSTEMS; BULL AND BEAR CO; CCA CITY CLUB APARTMENTS; CIN GAS ELEC CO 4TH AND MAIN TSP SVC CTREPA FRS
Census tract 39061026500	3,229 people, 4,443 per sq mi; median household income $70,270; median gross rent $1,664; 87% renters; 12.8% vacant units; 4.2% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 18.3 of 20; 177 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 58 m; land-use mix 0.75; 86,313 jobs within 45 min by car, 273,454 by transit; 9% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 9 grocers, 3 schools, 77 parks or playgrounds, 3 health, 17 civic, 150 food and drink; 185 cycleway segments, 850 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	yes, tract 39061026500 (rural)HUD
National Register places within 500 m	15: Davidson, Tyler, Fountain; Cincinnati Gymnasium and Athletic Club; Underwriters Salvage Corps; St. Francis Xavier ChurchNPS
Housing permits, Hamilton County (OH), 2024	217 units in 5+ unit buildings, 39 in 2–4, 566 single-family; 2023: 654 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.37; socioeconomic 0.38; housing and transport 0.82; 23% below 150% of poverty; 19% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	2 within 10 km, 14 within 25 km: St. Bernard Square (7.5 km); Surrey Square Mall (8.1 km)computed
Overture Maps	no place match; building footprint 2,596 m², 175.0 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views	282,671 since 2015; 20,735 in the last 12 months (-21% vs the prior 12); peak 2016-05 with 3,164Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	population +52% (2,129 → 3,229); median income +87% ($37,500 → $70,270); renters 85% → 87%; median home value +35% ($285,800 → $385,900)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively low overall (score 55.0); expected annual loss $1.8M; high: tornado; community resilience relatively highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	7 LIHTC properties, 925 units: Gateway Plaza (348 units); Mid-Towne Apts (230 units); Central Parkway Towers (225 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	38,928 jobs in 2,586 establishments; average annual pay $39,344; employment location quotient 0.77; employment -1.1% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	30,742 jobs; 171 in retail trade, 1,892 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 39061026500)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 31th income percentile as adults; 5.2% incarcerated at the 2010 count (70 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; 7% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 23.8%; median family income $121,563; 315 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Cincinnati City School District (PK-12); 6 public schools within 1 mile: School For Creative and Performing Arts; George Hays-Jennie Porter School; Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School; Virtual High SchoolNCES EDGE
Elevation	548 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	324 county-logged events: 147 thunderstorm wind, 71 flash flood, 57 hail, 41 flood; $6,576,950 property damage reported; 2 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 45202, 2026-09	median list price $384,500 (-9.8% on the year); 113 active listings; median 74 days on market; 18% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	2,518 establishments (-11%); 40,920 jobs (-26%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $266,241 (+1% 1 yr, +24% 5 yr); typical rent $1,468/mo (+2% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	126,499 vehicles a day on IR 71 (Interstate, 8 lanes); 11,761 trucks; 31 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

Summary, model-written

Tower Place Mall opened in 1991 with 220,000 square feet of GLA and 32 stores. No further events are recorded in the record, and its current status is listed as unknown.

Why. not stated in the record

Where it stands. The mall’s status is unknown and the controlling owner is not identified in the record.

For a planner

No policy interventions or redevelopment plans are documented in the record.
Open question: what factors led to the mall’s decline or closure?
Open question: what is the current ownership and zoning status of the site?

For a developer

Site size: 220,000 sq ft GLA.
Control and ownership are not documented in the record.
Entitlement stage and any existing approvals are unknown.
Context layers (flood, transit, environment) and market signals are not provided.

What we do not know yet

Exact closure date and reasons for decline are unknown.
Current ownership and controlling entity are not recorded.
Anchor tenant losses or competitive impacts are not documented.
It is unclear whether the narrative excerpt about Carew Tower applies to Tower Place Mall.
Missing data on zoning, flood risk, transit access, and environmental constraints.

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Similar sites

Woodland Mall, Bowling Green, OH · Malls · similar GLA (270,502 sq ft); opened 1987; also in OH
Surrey Square Mall, Norwood, OH · Malls · similar GLA (190,474 sq ft); also in OH; 8 km away
Forest Fair Mall, Hamilton County, OH · Malls · opened 1989; also in OH; 22 km away
Kenwood Plaza, Cincinnati, OH · Malls · also in OH; 16 km away

Elsewhere on the web

Pages with photos

Tower Place Mall – UrbanCincy urbancincy.com
Tower Place Mall's last tenant to move out - Cinci… bizjournals.com
Tower Place Mall gets new name, turns into parking garage wlwt.com
Allister Sears: Cincinnati's Tower Place Mall allistersears.blogspot.com
TJMaxx - Tower Place Mall | Mike K… flickr.com

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History and original facts

Opened	1991Esri 2014 layer
Gross leasable area	220,000 sq ftEsri 2014 layer reported
Stores at peak	32Esri 2014 layer reported
Address	Fourth & Race Sts.
County	Hamilton
Census division	3 · East North Central
Notes	Wikipedia categories: Defunct shopping malls in the United States

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Background

Carew Tower is a 49-story, 574-foot (175 m) Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The second-tallest building in the city, it was Cincinnati's tallest from 1930 until 2011, when it was surpassed by Great American Tower at Queen City Square. The tower is named after Mabley & Carew department store proprietor Joseph T. Carew, who was the namesake of a previous structure on the site.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1991 Opened

Sources

Esri StoryMaps: Closed_US_Malls feature layer (2014) · 2014-10-02
Wikipedia: Tower Place Mall · 2026-10-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Tower Place Mall, Cincinnati, OH." Record m-3a1a779e9d, imported, unreviewed. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/oh/cincinnati-tower-place-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_cincinnatitowerplacemall,
  title = {Tower Place Mall, Cincinnati, OH},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/oh/cincinnati-tower-place-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-3a1a779e9d, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

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