Summit Mall in Fairlawn, with the only Apple store between suburban Cleveland and Columbus, has so far largely weathered online retail disruption, maintaining two anchor stores while filling part of its retail space with restaurants like P.F. Chang’s and Dewey’s Pizza. [Phil Masturzo/Beacon Journal file photo] ▲ Two shoppers head toward the main entrance of Rolling Acres Mall on Nov. 16, 2006, in Akron. [Beacon Journal file photo] ▲ Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan looks down to the lower level near the former J.C. Penney store of the abandoned Rolling Acres Mall on June 29, 2016. [Beacon Journal file photo] ▲ Construction continues on the Amazon fulfillment center on Romig Road in Akron on Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. The massive building is being constructed on the site of the former Rolling Acres Mall, which was demolished to make way for the center. [Mike Cardew/Beacon Journal file photo] ▲ Richman Brothers was one of more than 50 stores at Chapel Hill Mall during its grand-opening celebration in October 1967. [Beacon Journal file photo] ▲ The front of Chapel Hill Mall on Brittain Road in Akron on Friday Jan. 3, 2020. [Mike Cardew/Beacon Journal] ▲

Here's a look at the history of Akron-area malls:

1965: Summit Mall opens in Fairlawn, sucking business away from downtown business districts in Akron and the suburbs.

1967: Chapel Hill Mall opens in Akron, on the edge of Cuyahoga Falls and Tallmadge. It was supposed to be the first enclosed shopping mall in the region, but construction delays gave Summit Mall that title two years before.

1975: Rolling Acres Mall, the first in the area with two floors, opens in Akron's Sherbondy Hill neighborhood, which was called Lane-Wooster at the time.

January 1991: Rolling Acres gets a reputation of being being unsafe. Despite numerous attempts at boosting security and mall expansion, the mall never shakes the reputation.

January 2000: Rolling Acres' owner, Cleveland-based Forest City, sells the mall to Bankers Trust Corp. for $33.5 million. Bankers puts the mall on the market less than two years later.

September 2002: Rolling Acres sells for a fraction of its last purchase price. North Carolina's Whichard family buys it for $2.75 million.

May 2004: Chapel Hill's developers and longtime owners Richard Buchholzer and Forest City sell the mall to Tennessee-based CBL & Associates Properties Inc. for $78.1 million. The mall is 86% full, but the new owners, who own successful malls across U.S., aim to boost occupancy above 90%.

September 2004: Chapel Hill is booming, reporting that it is 97% occupied. Rolling Acres is struggling, saying only about 50% of its stores are filled. Summit Mall declines to reveal its occupancy rate.

July 2006: Rolling Acres' price drops again. This time it sells to a California company for $1.7 million. Anchor Dillard's closes months later, and the mall goes back on the market.

August 2007: Chapel Hill's owner, CBL & Associates Properties, enters a joint venture with the Australian-based owner of Belden Village mall. CBL continues to manage and lease Chapel Hill.

October 2008: Rolling Acres mall closes after the electricity is shut off for an overdue bill of at least $130,000.

2010: Rolling Aces is sold again, this time for $3 million to Premier Ventures LLC of Irvine, California. The price includes a $1.16 million lien from the previous owner.

May 2012: Rolling Acres, now decaying, faces foreclosure and an unpaid property tax bill of about $343,000.

2014: Chapel Hill Mall still appears busy, but it spends the year floating in and out of foreclosure for failing to pay on a $77 million bank loan.

July 2014: Rolling Acres, now about $1.1 million behind in back taxes, is foreclosed on by Summit County. The mall is scheduled for sheriff's sale at least four times in two years, but each time the owner files a last-minute bankruptcy in a different state, halting the sheriff's sale.

January 2016: Chapel Hill's anchor store Macy's announces it is closing. Days later, Old Navy, Express and Aeropostale say they're leaving Chapel Hill, too.

June 2016: Rolling Acres gets its final owner: The city of Akron takes ownership when no one bids on the dilapidated property at auction.

July 2016: Chapel Hill gets a new owner. Mike Kohan, owner of Kohan Retail Investment Group of Great Neck, New York, buys the mall for $8.6 million from U.S. Bank. Kohan, whose full name is Mehren Kohansieh, owns distressed malls across the country.

January 2017: Chapel Hill learns its Sears store is closing. That leaves J.C. Penney as the mall's sole anchor.

April 2019: Chapel Hill store owners and employees fret for days they'll lose power after Ohio Edison warns them it could cut the mall's electricity because Kohan failed to pay the bill. Kohan ultimately pays and avoids an interruption of service, but the incident stokes fears Chapel Hill won't survive. Area leaders meet to discuss the mall's future.

July 2019: Rolling Acres, which became a national symbol of mall decay and urban ruin, finds a new retail life. Amazon confirms rumors it will build a fulfillment center on the site, employing 1,500 people with a minimum starting wage of $15 per hour.

Jan. 3, 2020: Chapel Hill faces temporary closure after the city of Akron threatens to turn off the water because owner Kohan hasn't paid bills. Kohan quickly ponies up enough money to keep the water flowing, but faces a new problem: Summit County is preparing to foreclosure on the mall property because of unpaid property taxes.

January 2020: Summit Mall in Fairlawn, with the only Apple store between suburban Cleveland and Columbus, has so far largely weathered online retail disruption, maintaining two anchor stores while filling part of its retail space with restaurants like P.F. Chang's and Dewey's Pizza.

— Compiled by Beacon Journal staff writer Amanda Garrett.