The Miracle Mile Shopping Center opened in November 1954, and it was one of the few large shopping destinations for Monroeville

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Monroeville is a home rule municipality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located about east of the city of Pittsburgh, Monroeville is a bustling suburb with mixed residential and commercial developments...

 municipality until the Monroeville Mall

Monroeville Mall

Monroeville Mall is a two-level, enclosed shopping mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, eastof Pittsburgh. It is located near the junction of Interstate 376 and I-76...

 opened its doors in July 1969.

It has had tenants such as U.S Post Office, Allen's Menswear, Thrift Drug, Sear's Catalog Store, Loreski's Hobby Shop, Woolworths, A.S. Beck Shoes, Kinney Shoes, Murphy's Meats, Thom McCahn Shoes, S.S. Kresge, Whitehead Hardware, Loblaw's, Associated Financial, a babershop, a bakery, a shoe repair, Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A |"fillet"]]) is a quick service restaurant chain headquartered in College Park, Georgia, United States, specializing in chicken entrées and is known for promoting the company founder's claims of Christian values. Long associated with the southern United States, where it has been a...

, Olan Mills

Olan Mills

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, Kroger

Kroger

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, JCPenney, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread

Panera Bread

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, Ponderosa Steakhouse, and Radio Shack

Radio shack

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. Kaufmann's

Kaufmann's

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 Department Store occupied a free-standing store adjacent to Miracle Mile until the late 1980s, when it vacated to replace the vacant anchor space in near-by Monroeville Mall

Monroeville Mall

Monroeville Mall is a two-level, enclosed shopping mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, eastof Pittsburgh. It is located near the junction of Interstate 376 and I-76...

 left by the liquidation of Gimbels. Kaufmann's was soon replace by a major automobile dealership.

Across William Penn Highway

William Penn Highway

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 is another shopping center, Jonet Plaza, constructed some time after Miracle Mile, in the late 1960s. Some other previous and current retail offerings are Service Merchandise

Service Merchandise

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, David Weiss

David Weiss

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, Office Depot

Office Depot

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, Lone Star Steakhouse, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

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. A bowling alley, Miracle Lanes, occupies the space at the rear of the plaza. Firestone

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company

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is located on the main level in space formerly occupied by JCPenneys Auto Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.