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Uniontown Mall

mall in South Union Township, Pennsylvania, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7886856
Source-derived summary

Uniontown Mall is a regional mall in South Union Township, Pennsylvania, just outside the city of Uniontown. The anchor stores are JCPenney, NextWave Industries, Stronghold Training Center, and CrossFit Uniontown. Four vacant anchor stores were once The Bon-Ton, Sears, and Burlington.

History

The one-story Uniontown Mall was developed by Crown American and opened in 1972. Sears and Gee Bee were the mall's original anchor stores. A Bon-Ton department store opened at the mall in 1975, while JCPenney and Hess's subsequently became additional anchor tenants.

In 1992, the Gee Bee store was replaced by Value City. The former Hess's store closed in 1999 and was subsequently divided for other uses, including space occupied by Timeless Traditions furniture and TeleTech Customer Care. TeleTech provided customer-service and related services for outside companies. By the mid-2000s, the mall's tenants included Value City, Sears, JCPenney, Bon-Ton, TeleTech Customer Care, and other retailers.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Uniontown Mall” is mall in South Union Township, Pennsylvania, USA. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Uniontown, Mall and mall, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1975, 1992, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972. For this dossier, Uniontown, Mall and mall is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “mall in South Union Township, Pennsylvania, USA” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7886856. Authority coordinates are 39.907, -79.746. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1975, 1992 and 1999.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Uniontown Mall”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Uniontown Mall primary sources, Uniontown Mall archive and Uniontown research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Uniontown Mall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.