Apache Mall is a shopping mall in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. Apache Mall is owned and managed by Brookfield Properties, who acquired General Growth Properties in 2018.[3] The mall's anchor stores are Scheels All Sports, Barnes & Noble, Macy's, and JCPenney. Boston Shoe & Boot Repair, Orangetheory Fitness, and Men's Wearhouse are junior anchors. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Herberger's.
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| Location | Rochester, Minnesota |
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| Address | 1201 Twelfth Street Southwest |
| Opening date | October 16, 1969[1] |
| Developer | Apache Corporation |
| Management | Brookfield Properties |
| Owner | Brookfield Properties |
| Architect | Thorsen & Thorshov[2] |
| No. of stores and services | 114 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 (4 open, 1 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 1,750,000 |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in Macy's, Scheels, former Herberger's) |
| Parking | 3,700 |
| Public transit access |  RPT |
| Website | www |
History
editApache Mall opened on October 16, 1969, on a 99-acre plot of former farmland purchased from George Baihly.[4][5] The original anchors were JCPenney and Montgomery Ward. By the mid-1960s, southwest Rochester had grown significantly, with the extension of U.S. Route 52 past U.S. Route 14 (which had been the highway's termination point for a few years). The extension of the freeway helped extend the city's "belt-line" in some respects with a push south. Suburban development had taken hold by this point and over the next twenty-five years, the area would grow quite a bit. The construction of the mall was a tipping point of moving commerce from downtown Rochester in a changing retail landscape.[6]
Dayton-Hudson Corporation (later Target Corporation) moved the local branch of their Dayton's department store chain to a newly constructed 150,000 sq. ft. store at Apache Mall, from its former downtown Rochester, Minnesota ___location, in 1972. At that time Apache Mall was the third-largest shopping center in Minnesota.[7][8] Sears opened a new store at the mall in 1991. In 2001, Montgomery Ward closed its doors and was later replaced by Herberger's. In that same year, the Dayton's ___location at Apache Mall would eventually take on the Marshall Field's nameplate after acquiring the store chain in a merger; and would ultimately be rebranded as Macy's after the selling of Marshall Field's to Federated Stores.[9]
In 2014, the mall's Sears store was closed. However, shortly after the Sears was shut down, plans for a Scheels All Sports were announced, as well as an expansion of the building.[10] Scheels opened in 2015.[11] On April 18, 2018, it was announced that Herberger's would be closing as parent company The Bon-Ton Stores was going out of business. The store closed on August 29, 2018.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Apache Mall Leasing Information". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
- ^ Minnesota Modern Registry, Docomomo US MN, accessed May 18, 2022.
- ^ Veiga, Alex (April 16, 2009). "Operator of Minnesota, Wisconsin malls files for bankruptcy protection". Associated Press, St. Paul Pioneer Press. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
- ^ "Rochester opens shopping center", Minneapolis Star, October 17, 1969, page 21 A.
- ^ "Big shopping mall opens in Rochester", Minneapolis Star, October 17, 1969, page 14 A.
- ^ Kiger, Jeff (October 10, 2019). "Apache Mall introduced modern retail to Rochester 50 years ago". Post Bulletin. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ Rebuffoni, Dean. "Rochester battles decline of downtown", Minneapolis Tribune, January 16, 1972, page 10 U.
- ^ Johnson, Fred. "What Future for Downtown Rochester? Dayton's Move Will Leave a Void", Minneapolis Tribune, October 4, 1970, pages 1 C and 5 C.
- ^ "Macy's to open at Apache Mall". callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ Scheels store gets OK from Planning and Zoning - Post-Bulletin
- ^ "Scheels hosts sneak peek at new store".
- ^ "Details on the Going out of Business Sale at the Rochester Herberger's". 106.9 KROC. April 20, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2021.