Developed in 1966 as a one-anchor regional mall. In 1988, the sole anchor department store, Lazarus, left to become a new anchor in the expanded Kenwood Plaza (now known as Kenwood Towne Center), leaving only its furniture department behind. In-line tenants with expiring leases also began to leave, preferring instead to locate in Kenwood Towne Center, the upscale super regional mall located across the street. Rather than compete directly with the new center, the developers of Sycamore Plaza decided to redevelop the center as a power center with a vertical component. Sycamore Plaza at Kenwood now boasts five large national and regional category killer merchants as anchor tenants and a host of non-anchor tenants. Its orientation was virtually turned inside out during the $18.7 million conversion.