Har Mar Mall; Roseville, Minnesota
Located in Roseville, Minnesota, almost smack dab in the middle of the Twin Cities metro area, Har Mar Mall opened in 1961. It was designed by the same company which built Apache Plaza in nearby St....
View ArticleWinona Mall; Winona, Minnesota
Winona Rocks! Well, at least that’s what someone at the University of Wisconsin was thinking as they scrawled that declaration into several rows of desks in a large chemistry lecture hall there. Very...
View ArticleSkyline Mall; Albert Lea, Minnesota
We like to root for the retail underdog. Don’t get us wrong, we love all things retail, but we appreciate older, outmoded, and visibly dated centers and hold them with special regards. Perhaps it’s...
View ArticleNorthbridge Mall; Albert Lea, Minnesota
Opened in 1987, Northbridge Mall was the second enclosed mall for Albert Lea, luring shoppers away from then-20-year-old Skyline Mall across town. Its anchors are ShopKo, a Green Bay, Wis. based...
View ArticleMall of America; Bloomington, Minnesota
Here it is. The big kahuna. The head honcho. This is it, for the United States anyway. The 15-year-old Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is one of the largest single-site retail themed...
View ArticleBrookdale Center; Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Located in Brooklyn Center, an inner-ring suburb 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis, Brookdale Center is a behemoth of a mall living on borrowed time. Opened in 1962, Brookdale debuted to a new,...
View ArticleSouthdale Center and Victor Gruen; Edina, Minnesota
This might be the most important one we’ve featured here. Southdale is the mall that started it all, from the man who started it all – Victor Gruen. Sure, there were shopping centers and arcades,...
View ArticleOak Park Mall; Austin, Minnesota
Austin, Minnesota is a small city of about 23,000 residents in the southern part of the state. It is just over 100 miles from the Twin Cities, and 40 miles from Rochester along Interstate 90. Austin...
View ArticleThe Galleria; Edina, Minnesota
The Galleria is a 417,000 square-foot, mostly single-level upscale enclosed shopping mall in Edina, Minnesota, an upscale suburb of Minneapolis. Anchored by Gabbert’s furniture, Crate and Barrel,...
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