The world’s largest retailer is the buyer of the region’s largest shopping mall. A spokesman for Walmart confirmed that it is the new owner of Monroeville Mall, the 1.2 million-square-foot shopping complex on 186 acres of land that has been a focal point of the East suburbs for more than 50 years.

The Monroeville Mall is about to change. Opened in 1969, the Monroeville Mall has seen a lot of changes over the years, and there's a new one with the introduction of Walmart as the property's new owner,