Southern Hills Mall

What Southern Hills Mall does

Southern Hills Mall is a single-property regional shopping center located at 4400 Sergeant Rd in Sioux City, Iowa, operating under retail hours of 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM. The property is owned by Kohan Retail Investment Group, a private retail real estate investment and management company, with day-to-day digital operations handled by Placewise LLC, which provides the website infrastructure, store directory, event management, and customer engagement systems. The mall serves local and regional consumers and families in the Sioux City metropolitan area, offering a consolidated retail, dining, and entertainment destination with 60+ tenants including anchor department stores (JCPenney), large-format specialty retailers (Scheels All Sports, Barnes & Noble), entertainment (AMC Classic Southern Hills 12), personal care (Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret), apparel (Zumiez), and financial services (Wells Fargo Bank). The configuration combines interior corridor storefronts with exterior-access big-box tenants such as Scheels, Barnes & Noble, JCPenney, and AMC, and includes a Youth Escort Policy governing interior access.

The mall's product surface extends beyond the physical property to a set of digital services: an online store directory, a deals and promotions hub, an events calendar, a lifestyle blog, a commercial leasing page, and a Club Members registration program. Marketing channels include the website (southernhillsmall.com), an email newsletter for Club Members, social media presence (@SouthernHillsIA on Instagram, plus Facebook and Pinterest), and on-property community events and seasonal promotions designed to drive foot traffic. The website is maintained to WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines, with a dedicated accessibility contact channel operated through Placewise.

The business model is built on two revenue streams. The primary stream is long-term retail tenant leasing, in which department stores, fashion retailers, electronics stores, and specialty shops pay rent for physical storefront space within the mall. The secondary stream is specialty leasing, offering short-term and seasonal leases for temporary merchants, kiosks, and pop-up stores. Consumer pricing is set by individual tenant retailers rather than by the mall property itself, and the property does not have a mobile app, public API, or proprietary software product; the underlying technology is a standard Placewise-managed digital platform for store directory, events, and customer engagement. The company is privately held, not publicly traded, and reports no institutional investment, venture backing, or public equity ownership.

Name

Southern Hills Mall

Legal name

Southern Hills Mall

Website

https://southernhillsmall.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Southern Hills Mall is a single-property regional shopping center in Sioux City, Iowa, owned by Kohan Retail Investment Group and operated digitally by Placewise LLC. It serves local consumers and families through 60+ retail, dining, and entertainment tenants, generating revenue from long-term leases and specialty short-term leasing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Sioux City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Retail Tenant Leasing: Long-term lease agreements with retail tenants including department stores, fashion retailers, electronics stores, and specialty shops. Tenants pay rent for physical storefront space within the mall.
2. Specialty Leasing: Short-term and seasonal leasing opportunities for temporary merchants, kiosks, and pop-up stores. Includes space for seasonal events and promotional activities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Southern Hills Mall is an enclosed regional shopping center in Sioux City, Iowa, offering commercial retail space (long-term inline and anchor storefronts, plus exterior-access spaces) to national and local retailers, dining operators, and entertainment tenants such as JCPenney, Scheels, Barnes & Noble, AMC Classic Southern Hills 12, and Wells Fargo. It supplements its physical leasing business with a digital platform providing a store directory, deals, events calendar, blog content, and a Club Member email program operated via Placewise LLC.

Product overview

Southern Hills Mall is a single physical retail destination (shopping center) rather than a software product. The mall offers an online portal with directory services, deals, events, blog content, and leasing information. The portfolio consists of the core mall property and related digital services including store directory, promotions, events calendar, lifestyle blog content, and commercial leasing. The mall is operated by Placewise LLC and owned by Kohan Retail Investment Group.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Southern Hills Mall Retail Leasing Long-term commercial leasing of retail storefront space within the enclosed Southern Hills Mall property at 4400 Sergeant Rd, Sioux City, IA, available to national retail chains, fashion retailers, electronics stores, specialty shops, dining operators, and service providers.
• Specialty Leasing (Kiosks and Pop-Up Retail) Short-term, seasonal, and pop-up retail leasing opportunities inside Southern Hills Mall for temporary merchants, kiosk operators, and promotional brands seeking exposure to existing mall foot traffic without long-term lease commitments.

Named customers8 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Kohan Retail Investment GroupcoreOthersOwnership entity for Southern Hills Mall. Kohan Retail Investment Group is a retail real estate investment and management company that owns and operates shopping centers across the United States. The group provides capital, property management, and strategic direction for the mall property.
• Placewise LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationDigital platform operator and technology provider for the mall's website and digital customer engagement systems. Placewise provides the website infrastructure, store directory technology, event management systems, and digital marketing tools that power southernhillsmall.com and associated customer touchpoints.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Brookfield Properties: Major operator of enclosed malls and mixed-use retail centers in the US; comparable in scale and strategy of combining retail, dining, and entertainment anchors.
• Macerich: Mall REIT focused on regional malls in mid-size US markets — directly comparable asset class, tenant mix, and demographic exposure to Southern Hills Mall.
• Brixmor Property Group: Open-air and community shopping center owner; provides a relevant open-air alternative format against which enclosed regional malls compete for retail tenants and shoppers.
• Simon Property Group: Largest US mall REIT operating enclosed regional and premium outlet centers; provides a benchmark for mall valuations, anchor tenant strategies, and entertainment-anchored formats.

Others

• Placewise: Digital platform operator that powers Southern Hills Mall's website, directory, and customer engagement; an enabling technology vendor rather than a direct retail competitor.

Emerging players

• AMC Theatres: Entertainment anchor tenant at Southern Hills Mall (AMC Classic Southern Hills 12); relevant as a key traffic driver and as a comparable within the in-mall entertainment category.

Direct peers

• CBL & Associates Properties: Mall REIT concentrated in secondary and tertiary markets in the South and Midwest — most directly comparable asset profile to Southern Hills Mall in size and trade area.
• Washington Prime Group: Mall REIT focused on smaller and mid-sized markets; went through Chapter 11, illustrating the specific structural risks facing secondary-market enclosed malls like Southern Hills Mall.
• Kohan Retail Investment Group: Parent company and direct portfolio peer; Kohan owns and operates multiple regional and secondary-market shopping malls across the US with similar tenant mixes and operating profiles to Southern Hills Mall.

Regional players

• Phillips Edison & Company: Neighborhood and community shopping center REIT with grocery-anchored formats; illustrates the shift away from enclosed malls toward necessity-based open-air centers that compete for the same discretionary tenant.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/SouthernHillsMall
• Instagraminstagram.com/SouthernHillsIA
• Pinterestpinterest.com/southernhillsmall

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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