Pueblo Mall is a shopping mall in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. Opened in 1976, the mall features Dillard's and J. C. Penney as its anchor stores. Other major tenants of the mall include Jo-Ann Fabrics, Planet Fitness, and Altitude Trampoline Park. The mall is managed and owned by Centennial Real Estate.
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| Location | Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 38°18′11″N 104°36′31″W / 38.30306°N 104.60861°W |
| Address | 3429 Dillon Drive |
| Opening date | 1976 |
| Developer | The Hahn Company |
| Owner | Centennial Real Estate |
| No. of stores and services | 80+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 (3 open, 1 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 575,000 square feet (53,400 m2)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
History
editPueblo Mall opened in 1976. Developed by The Hahn Company, it originally featured Montgomery Ward, The Denver Dry Goods Company, Joslins, and J. C. Penney as its anchor stores.[2] Joslins replaced an existing store in downtown Pueblo.[3] The Denver Dry Goods went out of business in 1987 and sold its store to Mervyn's.[4] In 1998, the entire Joslins chain was sold to Dillard's.[5] Montgomery Ward went out of business in 2001 and became Sears, which relocated from Midtown Shopping Center.[6]
After Mervyn's closed all of its Colorado locations in 2005, a portion of its store became Sports Authority. As that chain did not use the entirety of the building, the back portion remained vacant until 2014, when Planet Fitness occupied the remaining space.[7] Sports Authority went out of business in 2016 and was replaced in 2019 by a trampoline park called Altitude Trampoline Park.[8] Sears closed in 2019 as well.[6]
In 2017, an article in The Washington Post acknowledged Pueblo Mall as an example of a smaller shopping mall that has maintained success even in the wake of online shopping, noting the variety of stores, the significant size of the market area, and the high median income surrounding the city of Pueblo.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Information". Pueblo Mall. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Directory of major malls. MJJTM Publications Corp. 1990. p. 107.
- ^ "Crews-Beggs Department Store". Pueblo Historical Society. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Mark A. Barnhouse (2017). The Denver Dry Goods: Where Colorado Shopped with Confidence. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 137, 159.
- ^ "An unforgettable department store sale". Denver Business Journal. May 25, 1998. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ a b Dennis Darrow (January 18, 2019). "Sears shoppers pay final respects". The Chieftain. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ Dennis Darrow (August 19, 2014). "Fitness chain coming to Pueblo Mall". The Chieftain. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ "Indoor trampoline park coming to Pueblo Mall". La Junta Tribune-Democrat. February 13, 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "The place where old-fashioned malls are beating Amazon: Small-town America". The Washington Post. May 20, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2020.