West Park Mall
West Park Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Opened in 1981, it is anchored by Macy's (91,175 sq ft (8,470.4 m2)), JCPenney ({{cvt|100,466|sqft), Ashley HomeStore (80,710 sq ft (7,498 m2)), Old Navy, and Barnes & Noble.
Entrance to West Park Mall, May 2012 | |
Coordinates | 37°17′53″N 89°34′14″W |
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Opening date | 1981 |
Developer | May Centers, Inc. |
Owner | CBL Properties |
No. of stores and services | 60+ |
No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
Total retail floor area | 507,555 sq ft (47,153.4 m2)[1] |
No. of floors | 1 |
History
The mall was built in 1981 by May Centers, a division of The May Department Stores Company. It featured Famous-Barr (now Macy's) and JCPenney as its anchor stores, with original tenants including Hallmark Cards, Foot Locker, Kay-Bee Toys, Claire's, Zales Jewelers, GNC, Waldenbooks, and Lerner New York.[2] An 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2) Venture was added as a third anchor in 1984.[3] Westfield Group bought the mall from CenterMark in 1993, and renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown West Park in 1998.[4]
The Venture store closed in 1998, the same year in which the mall owners proposed adding a fourth anchor store.[5] The West Park Mall Venture store and another at Kentucky Oaks Mall in nearby Paducah, Kentucky both became Shopko in 1999,[6][7] bringing West Park to 100 percent occupancy for the first time in its history.[8] Shopko closed in 2001.[9]
Old Navy opened in the mall in 2004.[10] A year later, the former Venture and Shopko space became Steve & Barry's.[11] In 2006, Westfield sold the mall to Centro Watt (which in 2011 rebranded as Brixmor Property Group), who reverted it to its original name.[12] Barnes & Noble was also added.[13]
Several stores closed in the mall between 2008 and 2010, including Steve & Barry's, Pacific Sunwear, Tilt, (a video arcade that was originally called "The Gold Mine" in the 1980s,) and a restaurant which had been at the mall for 24 years. Despite these vacancies, the mall was 88 percent occupied in 2010, with several of its original stores still in operation.[14] Brixmor hired Madison Marquette to be the manager of the mall in mid-2012.[15]
Ashley Furniture opened in 2018 in the former Venture building.
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