# North Hills Village

Ross, PA · mall · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `m-09ed0bdf69` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/pa/ross-north-hills-village/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-09ed0bdf69.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-09ed0bdf69.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/m-09ed0bdf69

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | operating | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| What is there now | a retail complex | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Opened | 1956 | reported · Esri 2014 layer |
| Closed | 1996 | reported · web research agent |
| GLA (sq ft) | 640783 | reported · Esri 2014 layer |
| Stores at peak | 35 | reported · Esri 2014 layer |

## Quoted support

- **after_notes**: “North Hills Village is a retail complex on McKnight Road in Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hills_Village
- **status**: “North Hills Village is a retail complex on McKnight Road in Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hills_Village
- **enclosed**: “It was enclosed in 1976” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

## Anchors

Burlington Coat Factory, Kohl's, Target, Kuhn's Market, Gimbels

## Parties

- J.J. Gumberg Co. — owner (from text) (1986–)

## Timeline

- 1956: Opened
- 1957: Opened as a strip mall
- 1976: Enclosed
- 1986: Ownership transferred to J.J. Gumberg Co.
- 1996: Reverted to strip mall

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

North Hills Village is a retail complex on McKnight Road in Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, owned by J.J. Gumberg Co. since 1986. It was opened as a strip mall in 1957, with Gimbels as its center piece anchor tenant. It was enclosed in 1976 before reverting to a strip mall in 1996.

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

## Sources

- Quoted support for after_notes — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hills_Village
- Esri StoryMaps: Closed_US_Malls feature layer (2014) — https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6869fc5bfb3f4757954ef7a9e9ccbebf (2014-10-02)

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "North Hills Village, Ross, PA." Record m-09ed0bdf69, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/pa/ross-north-hills-village/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_rossnorthhillsvillage,
  title = {North Hills Village, Ross, PA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/pa/ross-north-hills-village/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-09ed0bdf69, 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}
}
```

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.