Shopping MallThis is the tenth largest mall within the United States. Located just 27 miles away from the Chciago Loop and about 15 miles away from Chicago ‘hare airport, it makes it a scorching vacation spot for lots of holiday makers. The mall attracts round 27 million guests each year and growing every year. The mall was initially opened in 1979 and it had fifty nine stores and 1.9 million sq. foot purchasing space. It increased to 189 stores by 1983 making it the largest mall in the United States then. Today the store has practically 300 shops and round 2.2 million square foot of buying space. The mall is the very best visited vacationer destination within the Chicago metropolitan of the most important shops within the mall are JCPenny, Lord and Taylor, Macy’s, Nordstroms, and the biggest Sears retailer in the United States.

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Authorities revealed new details Monday on the weekend mall shooting in Greenwood, Indiana, including the identities of the gunman, three victims and the legally armed bystander who fatally shot the gunman.

The shooting rampage took place at the Greenwood Park Mall around 6 pm Sunday. Multiple people called 911 to report an active shooter. Three people died and two were injured as a result of the shooting. Greenwood is 15 miles south of Indianapolis.

The gunman was identified as Jonathan Douglas Sapirman, 20, who police said prepared for the shooting for a little over an hour in a bathroom before he emerged with a rifle, Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said.

The victims were identified as Indianapolis couple Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37, and Victor Gomez, 30, who is also from Indianapolis.

Police identified Jonathan Douglas Sapirman as the gunman.

The legally armed bystander who ended up shooting the gunman was

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Chattanooga’s first suburban shopping center has a new owner.

A Fayetteville, Arkansas-based real estate investment firm has acquired the 64-year-old Highland Plaza shopping center at Hixson Pike and Ashland Terrace as national investment groups continue to buy into the Chattanooga market.

The Fletcher Bright Co., which has owned and managed the Hixson shopping center since 1994, sold the 129,000-square-foot retail center last month for nearly $8.9 million, or nearly $69 per square foot.

The shopping center is anchored by a Walmart Neighborhood Center, which was previously sold by Fletcher Bright, and includes a Big Lots, Dollar Tree, Tuesday Morning and Farmer’s Furniture along with a CHI Memorial medical clinic.

A real estate partnership created by Core Equity in Fayetteville bought the shopping center with an investment partnership that is known as Core Highland Plaza LLC to expand into what company officials see as a growing Chattanooga retail market.

“Chattanooga is

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