User:Bob rulz/List of shopping malls in Utah

This is a list of shopping malls in Utah, accompanied by descriptions and (when I can come around to it), pictures.


 * Cache Valley Mall - Logan
 * The Cache Valley Mall opened in 1976 and has 320,000 square feet of retail space. It was extensivley renovated and expanded in 2004. It is anchored by Dillard's and J.C. Penney and is owned by General Growth Properties.
 * Fashion Place Mall - Murray
 * Fashion Place Mall, which opened in 1972, contains 880,000 square feet of retail space across a single floor and is anchored by Dillards, Nordstrom, and Sears. It is owned by General Growth Properties.
 * Gateway District - Salt Lake City
 * First opened in 2001, the Gateway District is a large, mixed-used development project located on the western edge of downtown. The focal point is the two-level outdoor, pedestrian-only shopping center, but apartment complexes and office buildings are also part of the project. The shopping center includes a fountain open to the public, a Barnes & Noble, and a 12-screen theater.
 * Layton Hills Mall - Layton
 * Layton Hills Mall is a two-story mall that is currently the only mall in Davis County. It opened in 1980 and has about 661,000 square feet of retail space.
 * Newgate Mall - Ogden
 * Opened in 1981, the Newgate Mall has 730,000 square feet of retail space and was a major contributor in running the Ogden City Mall out of business. Its 5 anchors include Dillards, Mervyns, Sears, Sports Authority, and a 14-screen cinema, and it is owned by General Growth Properties.
 * Provo Towne Centre - Provo
 * Owned by General Growth Properties, this two-level shopping center opened in 1998, becoming the most recent enclosed shopping mall to open in Utah. It contains 800,000 square feet of retail space and is anchored by a Cinemark theater, Dillards, J.C. Penney, and Sears.
 * Red Cliffs Mall - Saint George
 * This single-level shopping mall, owned by General Growth Properties, opened in 1990 and contains 380,000 square feet of retail space. It is anchored by Dillards, J.C. Penney, and Sears. The first Barnes & Noble in the St. George area is planned to open in the mall in spring 2008.
 * South Towne Center - Sandy
 * Opened in 1986, South Towne Center is a large, 930,000 square foot shopping mall that also includes a nearby 306,000 square foot shopping center. The combined 1,230,000 square feet of shopping space makes it the largest shopping area in Utah. The mall is anchored by Dillards, Mervyns, J.C. Penney, and Macy's and is owned by Macerich.
 * Trolley Square Mall - Salt Lake City
 * Opened in 1972 in a refurbished building constructed in 1908 that originally housed the trolleys for Salt Lake City's street car system, which was completely dismantled in 1945. The building is on the register of National Historic Places. On February 12, 2007, as the mall was being renovated, a gunman killed 5 people and injured 4 in the mall before being killed by an off-duty police officer.
 * University Mall - Orem
 * Opened in 1973, University Mall was the first mall to open outside of the Salt Lake Valley and Bountiful. With 1,192,000 square feet of retail space, University Mall is the largest shopping mall in the state. It is anchored by Nordstrom, Macy's, Mervyns, and Costco.
 * Valley Fair Mall - West Valley City
 * Opened in 1970, Valley Fair Mall was the third mall in the state and is anchored by Costco, J.C. Penney, Macy's, and Mervyns. ZCMI and J.C. Penney were the original anchors, the Mervyns was constructed in 1980, and the mall was renovated in 1986. ZCMI was bought by Macy's in 2006. It has 700,000 square feet of retail space. On April 23, 2008, the mall broke ground on a development that will add about 1/3 more retail space in an outdoor plaza and extensively renovate the existing enclosed portion. Completion is expected in 2010. A murder occurred in the parking lot of the mall on December 7, 1976.

Dead malls

 * Cottonwood Mall - Holladay
 * Opened in 1962, this was the first enclosed shopping mall in Utah. Its original anchor was ZCMI. There was also an F.W. Woolworth, Albertson's supermarket and Skaggs' Drug Store. A J.C. Penney was a later addition to the existing structure.   Other regional anchor stores included The Paris Department store and Eldrege Furniture Company.   On July 5, 2007, General Growth Properties, which owns the mall, announced an ambitious redevelopment plan, touted as one of its "most comprehensive mall redevelopments". The mall will be torn down and replaced with a mixed-use village community that draws inspiration from European cities. The Macy's anchor store will remain standing throughout construction but will be refurbished. The mall was demolished in 2008, and construction is set to begin later in the year, with completion expected in 2010.
 * Crossroads Plaza - Salt Lake City, Utah
 * Crossroads Plaza was part of the urban reconstruction plan of the 1970s to serve as a complement to the ZCMI Center Mall. The mall cost $100 million to construct and covers 70% of the block. Construction of the mall began in 1978, and the mall officially opened on August 2, 1980. The mall was bought in 2003, along with the ZCMI Center Mall across the street, by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who announced the ambitious $1 billion mixed-use City Creek Center development on October 3, 2006. In preparation for the development, the mall has been demolished.
 * Five Points Mall - Bountiful
 * One of the first, if not the first, enclosed shopping malls in the state (built in the late 1950s), this small mall, with a size of just 188,000 square feet of retail space, fell on hard times as new retail space opened up across southern Davis County. It was renovated in 1978 and again in 1994. In 2000, plans were announced to replace the mall with the mixed-use Rennaisance Town Centre, which in addition to retail space also included a 5-story medical center known as the Rennaisance Medical Centre. By 2001, the mall was less than 40% occupied, and demolition of the mall officially began on June 3, 2003. The first phase of the Rennaisance Town Centre opened in September 2003.
 * Ogden City Mall - Ogden
 * Opened in 1980, the Ogden City Mall, which had just over 800,000 square feet of retail space, was eventually run out of business by Newgate Mall. At one point the most attractive and popular destination in downtown Ogden, by the mid-1990s it had been surpassed by Newgate Mall as the primary shopping destination in Ogden. The decline of the mall accelerated after its Nordstrom anchor store closed on January 31, 1999.. The mall was sold to a North Carolina businessman who specialized in revitalizing struggling malls on December 17, 1999, and promised the mall would be "a major center of activity" in time for the 2002 Winter Olympics. However, by the time anchor J.C. Penney announced they were leaving the mall, there had been no redevelopment plans revealed and mall traffic continued to dwindle, operating at just 53% of capacity. J.C. Penney left the mall on December 31, 2000. The final anchor, Meier & Frank, left the mall in August 2001. The mall continued to languish and its fate was uncertain after no redevelopment plans were revealed. After the Boyer Company backed out of buying the mall, the City of Ogden instead decided to set aside $10 million to buy and demolish the mall on September 18, 2001. Demolition of the mall began in May 2002 and was finished in January 2003. It is currently being replaced by The Junction, an open air redevelopment that includes a 13-screen Megaplex cinema and the Salomon Center, a high-adventure recreation center.
 * ZCMI Center Mall - Salt Lake City
 * The ZCMI Center Mall, first proposed in 1965, finally began construction in the early 1970s and first opened its doors on July 17, 1975. The mall cost $50 million and has a total surface area of 775,000 square feet covering an 8-acre site. At the time of its opening, it was the largest downtown mall in the country. To make way for the mall, a parking structure and a 300-foot tall smokestack had to be demolished. The mall was bought in 2003, along with Crossroads Plaza across the street, by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who announced the ambitious $1 billion mixed-use City Creek Center development on October 3, 2006. The last of the stores left the mall at the end of January 2007 in anticipation of demolition, which is expected to take place in early 2008.