Monroeville Mall is a shopping mall that is located in the municipality of Monroeville, Pennsylvania , east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , United States. Route 22 Business US 22 Bus. It contains 1,, square feet , m 2 of retail space on acres 0.
Several major shopping centers, including the Miracle Mile Shopping Center, national retailers and restaurants can be found along the U. Route 22 commercial corridor, adjacent to the Monroeville Mall, creating the biggest such concentration of retailers and other commercial businesses in the eastern environs of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. This mall is located on Mall Circle Drive, across from Monroeville Convention Center, [ 3 ] venue of the Pittsburgh Comicon , a comic book convention, from to With stores, the Monroeville Mall is currently the eighth largest shopping mall in Pennsylvania.
The mall is famous for being the filming location of the George A. Romero horror film Dawn of the Dead. Before the s postwar migration movement, Monroeville was predominantly a rural farming area.
The opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the early s, followed by completion of Interstate Parkway East in the early s, spurred the growth of Monroeville and its eastern suburbs.
In November , the Miracle Mile Shopping Center opened for business with numerous shops and eateries. As shopping malls increased in popularity in the s, residents of Monroeville and the eastern suburbs shopped at the now-defunct Eastland Mall in nearby North Versailles , or at Greengate Mall now demolished and rebuilt as Greengate Centre in Greensburg , Westmoreland County.
