Columbia Mall (Grand Forks)

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Columbia Mall
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Columbia Mall (Grand Forks)
Location Grand Forks, North Dakota
Address2800 S Columbia Rd.
Opening dateAugust 2, 1978
Developer Dayton Hudson Corporation
OwnerGK Development, Inc.
No. of stores and services70+
No. of anchor tenants 2
Total retail floor area 710,000 sq ft (66,000 m2)
No. of floors1
Public transit access Bus-logo.svg Cities Area Transit
Website shopcolumbiamall.com

Columbia Mall is an enclosed regional shopping mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota located at the intersection of 32nd Avenue South and Columbia Road. The mall opened in 1978, and was developed by the Dayton Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation) at a cost of roughly $20 million. Today, Columbia Mall features the traditional retailers JCPenney and Scheels, and also currently features several prominent specialty retailers which are American Eagle, Bath and Body Works, Hot Topic, Maurices, Men's Warehouse, and Zumiez. GK Development, Inc. of Barrington, Illinois, is the current owner of the mall.

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It is the largest mall within 70 miles (110 km). Located 80 miles (130 km) from the Canada–US border and 140 miles (230 km) from Winnipeg, the mall draws a significant number of customers from Canada.

History

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Columbia Mall
Location of Columbia Mall

Initial concepts

Dayton Hudson experienced fierce competition for a new mall in the city of Grand Forks in 1975. [1] While their proposal was to build a mall at the intersection of 32nd Avenue South and Columbia Road, Inland Construction of Edina, Minnesota wanted to build a mall at 32nd Avenue South and Washington Street (one mile east of the Dayton Hudson site), which was quickly dismissed, while a group of local investors and Farber-Kelley Ltd. of Toronto advanced a proposal for a mall at DeMers Avenue and 42nd Street to be called "Marketplace West." While Marketplace West was initially preferred by the city planning department, a referendum was called to annex Dayton Hudson's proposed Columbia Mall site to the city. When it passed, the city council interpreted it as a public endorsement of the Columbia Mall project. The Marketplace West site later became the home of the Alerus Center arena and convention center.

Early tenants

Columbia Mall opened on August 2, 1978, with 571,800 sq ft (53,120 m2) of retail space. The three initial anchors included both Dayton Hudson-owned Target and Dayton's stores as well as a JCPenney store. In 2000, a Sears department store relocated from the Grand Cities Mall to the Columbia Mall, bringing the total number of anchor tenants in the mall to four. By 2001, Target relocated to a larger space on 32nd Avenue South, becoming a SuperTarget. The Dayton's location was also changed to a Marshall Field's that year following a national merger. Marshall Field's was later purchased by May Department Stores in 2004 and merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005 and subsequently converted to Macy's.

Current operations

By 2005, GK Development added a new food court named Dakota Cafe. The American Red Cross established a temporary disaster relief operations headquarters at the shopping center in response to the August 26, 2007, tornado that struck nearby Northwood, ND. In 2014, a new Scheels All Sports was added to the mall in the former Target. [2]

In 2017, Macy's closed. [3] In 2018, Sears closed. [4] Several potential replacement tenants have eyed the vacant anchor store buildings. [5]

See also

Notes

  1. "Picking mall site sparked lots of fussin' n' fightin'", Herschel Kenner, Grand Forks Herald, 1 August 1978, p. B1
  2. "Mall tenants welcome addition of Scheels Saturday" . Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  3. "Macy's in Grand Forks slated to close" . Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  4. "Grand Forks Sears location to close in September" . Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  5. "East Grand Forks Riverside Christian School eyes possible purchase of former Macy's building". 2022-12-02. Retrieved 2023-09-03.

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