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Pembroke Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. Opened in March 1966 as the first shopping mall in the Hampton Roads metro area, it comprises more than 100 stores, including anchor stores Target, Kohl's, Sears and Stein Mart.HistoryThe site of Pembroke Mall was originally occupied by farm land. Construction began on the mall in March 1965. A year later, the mall's first twenty-one stores opened to the public. Sears and Miller & Rhoads, respectively the western and eastern anchor stores, opened shortly afterward. Besides these two anchor stores, the mall also featured a Woolworth dime store near the middle.A 1981 expansion added local department store Rices Nachmans as a third anchor store. Four years later, Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Hess's acquired the Rices Nachmans chain and re-branded all stores as Hess's.Miller & Rhoads closed its location at Pembroke Mall in 1990, and within a year, the former Miller & Rhoads space was replaced with Uptons, a chain based in Atlanta, Georgia. Hess's sold its Hampton Roads area stores to Proffitt's in 1993 and subsequently, Proffitt's sold all of its area stores to Dillard's in 1998. Stein Mart was also added as an anchor next to Uptons in the mid-1990s.