Mall Profile - Owings Mills Mall Owings Mills Maryland

The Mall Interior

The Conservatory

Champs Sporting goods

Ann Taylor

Owings mills mall opened July 30th 1986 with great Fanfair. It was developed By the Rouse Company of Columbia MD, it was designed by the famed RTKL and associates. The new mall brought Macy's, Saks and Hecht's as anchors. The mall hosted a variety of mid to upscale stores, such as some of the ones pictured . It also had a Conservatory food court with marble imported from France. Owings mills was a very picturesque property, it had a trail to the nearby Owings mills Metro station. This proved detrimental to the mall as in 1992 a cleaning lady from Saks was robbed and murderd on this trail. This was really the begining of the end for this mall. Saks Later closed and was replaced by JCPenney. Lord and and Taylor and Sears were Added to the mall in 1996. Both were gone by the early 2000s and replaced by two different furniture stores, In 2006 Sears was Demolished. Also in 2006 Hecht's was sold to Macy's, this resulted in Macy's abandoning their 1986 store and moving into the Hecht's building. The old Macy's was converted to a Boscov's which closed in 2008 and was never reoccupied. Macy's closed in November 2015, JCPenney closed in Spring of 2016. In March 2016 an auction was held for the contents of the mall. Demolition started in August of 2016. By late 2018 the first stores in Mill Station Were Opened.

The Bombay Company

Britches

Upper Level Layout

1. Photos in this article from Storefronts and facades 2,1988 And New Architecture of the Retail Mall, 1991

Mall profile- Westdale Mall Cedar Rapids Iowa

Westdale Mall Opened October 4th 1979. It was developed by the Hahn company a major shopping center developer at the time. It's orginal anchors were Younker Brothers of Des Moines Ia, Petersen Harned Von maur of Davenport Ia(originally planned to be Brandeis of Omaha Ne.) ,J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward. It also included an Osco drug. Petersen Harned Von Maur was shorted to Von Maur in 1989. Montgomery Ward closed in 2001, but was replaced by Steve and Barrys in 2005. In January 2007 Von Maur closed in 2008 Steve and Barry's closed after they went bankrupt. Linn county moved temporary offices into the former Steve and Barry's in 2008 after a major flood. The demolition of the mall was completed in November of 2014 after the mall closed March of that year. The only remaining structures from the mall are Younkers, Von Maur and Penney's. Younkers closed in the first round of Bon Ton closures in 2018.

Wards in 2000

Holiday 1980s

Grand opening 1979

Holiday 1980s

Younkers escalators 1980

Younkers 1980