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.), J.C. Penney (100,466 sq. ft.), Furniture Factory (80,710 sq. ft.), Old Navy, and Barnes & Noble.

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 J.C. Penney 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 Venture was added as a third anchor in 1984.^[3] Westfield Group bought the mall from May in 1993 and renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown West Park.^[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 Properties 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, a video arcade, 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] Centro sold the mall to Madison Marquette in mid-2012.^[15] It is currently being Leased by CBL http://www.cblproperties.com/pag.nsf/CorpSiteByAlphaWeb/West+Park+Mall?opendocument

References

External links

• Official website