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A year and a half after foreclosure, Valley West Mall struggles as another holiday season begins. That's not a good thing, city of West Des Moines says.
Opened in 1975, Valley West was once Des Moines' premier mall. But it's since been eclipsed by Jordan Creek Town Center , also in West Des Moines, which opened 5 miles away in 2004.
Petersen Harned Von Maur changed its name to Von Maur in 1989. By 2000, Valley West was the Des Moines area's most-visited mall with an average of 40,000 shoppers per day. [5] Plans for a fourth anchor store at Valley West Mall were announced on two separate occasions but never materialized.
Kyle Werner, Des Moines Register February 6, 2024 at 7:43 AM The remnants of the Von Maur and Younkers names remain where their names have been removed the sign at the Valley West Mall, Tuesday ...
In 1976, Petersen's opened its first store outside the Quad Cities area at Valley West Mall in West Des Moines, Iowa. The company continued to open new stores in shopping malls throughout Iowa and Illinois during the late 1970s and 1980s; along the way it acquired two former Killian's department stores in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, Iowa , in 1981.
Jordan Creek Town Center is a shopping mall in the city of West Des Moines, Iowa.It is the largest shopping complex in the state of Iowa with a total gross leasable area of 1,340,000 square feet (124,000 m 2). [2]
An Iowa State University study paid for by Jordan Creek opponents found that Valley West, also in West Des Moines, would lose $37 million per year in sales to the new mall; Merle Hay Mall, on the ...
The mall was known as Army Post Plaza during the planning and construction stages, but it was renamed Southridge Mall shortly before construction was completed. Southridge Mall opened on October 15, 1975, two months after Valley West Mall opened in West Des Moines. Younkers was the first anchor to open, with Sears following in 1977.