A & P opened a freestanding store at NORTHWEST PLAZA in February 1966.
Drawing from the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
A New Generation Penneys was the mall's fifth anchor. This store welcomed first shoppers in August 1966.
Drawing from the J.C. Penney Company
Our first NORTHWEST PLAZA plan depicts the mall of early 1969, before the shuttering of Vandervoort's. The PLAZA was one of the first American malls to feature four full-size anchor stores. There were originally 102 tenant spaces and free parking for 7,000 autos.
NORTHWEST PLAZA TENANTS 1969:
FAMOUS-BARR (with Golden Eagle Restaurant, Pilot House Coffee Shop, Snack Bar, Beauty Salon, Basement Economy Store, Optical Department and attached Tire Center) / SCRUGGS, VANDERVOORT & BARNEY (with Beauty Salon and Nor'west Soda Bar) / SEARS (with Coffee House and freestanding Auto Center) / J.C. PENNEY (with Beauty Salon, Coffee Shop and freestanding Auto Center) / F.W. WOOLWORTH (with luncheonette) / A & P supermarket (outparcel) / BETTENDORF-RAPP supermarket (outparcel) / Allied Radio Shack / Artiste Hair Stylists / Babor Sausage / Baker's Shoes / Barricini Candy / Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream / Benson's Village Store / Big Men's Shop / Bond Cleaners (outparcel) / Boyd's Apparel / Broadstreet's Apparel / Burt's Shoes / Buster Brown Shoes / Cameo Drapery Shop / Chandler's Shoes / Chess King men's wear / B. Dalton Bookseller / Dixie Cream Donut Shop / Docktor Pet Center / A.G. Edwards & Sons / Fatted Calf Restaurant / First Northwest Bank / Flagg Brothers Shoes / Flaming Jewel Originals / Florsheim Shoes / Franklin-Simon ladies' wear / Gay Gift Box / Gingiss Formal Wear / Golden Razor Barber Shop / The Grapevine, Limited ladies' wear / Hamilton Music Company / Hess & Culbertson Jewelers / Holloway House Cafeteria / Honeybee ladies' wear / House of Nine ladies' wear / Household Finance Corporation / Interior Systems / Jaccard's Jewelers / Joan Bari / John Henry's Railroad Cafe / Julie Ann Fabrics / Kline's Shoes / Korn Kettle / LaMerite Bridal Shop / Lane Bryant ladies' wear/ Lauer-Enloe Optometrists / Libson Shop ladies' wear / Life Uniform Shop / Ludwig-Aeolian Music / Martin Coin Shop / Mertyn's ladies' wear / Mavrakos Candy Company / Morris Paint Store / Motherhood Maternity / National Shirt Shops / Nature Food Center / 9-0-5 Liquors (outparcel) / Northwest Plaza Cinema (single screen outparcel) / Orange Julius / Ostertag Optical / Pam's Children's Shoes / Parklane Hosiery / Piccadilly ladies' wear / Puppy Palace Pets / Regal Shoes / Richman Brothers men's wear / Roosevelt Federal Savings & Loan / Russell Stover Candies / S.G. Adams Printing & Stationery / Shirt Gallery / Singer Sewing Center / Spencer Gifts / Swope's Shoes / Tall Fashions ladies' wear / Thayer McNeil Shoe Salon / The Tie Shop / Thom McAn Shoes / Tobaccoland / Travel Designs / TWA Ticket Office / Two Cents Plain Restaurant / Union Jack Apparel / US. Post Office / Viscount Records / Walgreen Drug (with Walgreen Grill) / Way In Shop Junior Wear / Wolff's men's wear / World Bazaar / Worth's Women's Fashion Shop / Zales Jewelers
