 The Higbee Company and May Company Ohio, Cleveland's two major department store companies, announced that they would join as anchors.Plans were approved in 1991 and ground was broken in 1995, with the $200 million SouthPark Center opening on October 16, 1996.The completed center included not only Dillard's (the renamed Higbee's) and Kaufmann's (the renamed May Company, now Macy's) department stores, but also JCPenney, Sears, over 100 retailers, a food court, and a grand porte-cochere — a massive, extended greeting canopy above its main entrance.