 Originally, a small outdoor shopping center was opened by Saul Biskind in 1958 on what was a field of strawberries.The plaza contained a Sears (west end), F. W. Woolworth Company (center west), and a Pick-N-Pay grocery store (east end), along with a small-scale J. C. Penney and other stores.A freestanding May Company Cleveland store was built to the east of the original plaza in 1965.