AURORA VILLAGE MALL, circa-1980. Ernst Home Center, Pay 'n Save Drug and Lucky stores moved from the mall proper, into freestanding structures. Nordstrom opened, as a second mall anchor, in March 1974. The complex was fully-enclosed between the years 1979 and 1980. When all construction dust settled, the shopping hub covered around 550,000 leasable square feet,


By the late 1980s, the mall was in a downward spiral. It was razed and replaced by the open-air AURORA VILLAGE CENTER in 1994. In a contemporary aerial plan of that facility, we see that just a single structure, a bank surrounded in blue, was left standing during the demalling.
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