This logo was used to promote Alaska's first enclosed, suburban-style shopping center. In its original state, THE MALL housed thirty stores and services.
Graphic from The Mall, Incorporated
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A vintage view of the original east anchor. It opened, as a freestanding store, in April 1966. With its completion, Sears had retail stores in all of the fifty states. Note: THE MALL would be added to the right (or west) side of the building.
Photo from Sears, Roebuck & Company Annual Report 1966
In 1968, THE MALL encompassed around 272,600 leasable square feet. Sears and Carrs were expanded in the early '70s (in light gray). In 1975, the complex covered 314,300 leasable square feet. There was free parking for 1,100 autos.
THE MALL TENANTS 1975:
SEARS (with Coffee House and attached Auto Center) / CARRS FOOD CENTER / Adams Stationery / Alaska Cleaners / American Hairdressers / Andy's Sweets, Treats 'n Eats / Anita Shops ladies' wear / Bert's Pillbox Pharmacy / The Book Cache / Contact Optical / Grandma's Closet (juvenile apparel) / Harold's Shoes / The Hideout (leather accessories) / Household Finance Corporation / Island Keys Gifts / Jaspers, Incorporated ladies' wear / Jay Jacob Men's / Jay Jacob Women's / Kinney Shoes / Klopfenstein's ladies' & men's wear / Lafayette Audio Specialists / Mall Barbershop / Mall Photo Center / National Bank of Alaska / Nobby Shops ladies' wear / Russell Stover Candies / Sheffield Publick House Restaurant & Lounge / US Post Office / Wonderful World of Wigs / Zales Jewelers
When THE MALL opened in the late 1960s, its generic name could suffice.
However, by the early '80s, there were four interior malls in Anchorage.
To differentiate itself, Alaska's original enclosed shopping center was
renamed MALL AT SEARS. Zooming through time to the early 2000s, we see contemporary MALL AT SEARS signage. This display stood along Anchorage's East Northern Lights Boulevard.
Photo from http://www.mallatsears.com
This image shows the front facade of the complex, which also faces East Northern Lights Boulevard. This snapshot was taken before a 2010s face lift.
Photo from http://www.akhomeshow.com / Ryan Tollefson Real Estate Experts
MALL AT SEARS was renovated between March and June of 2011. In this snapshot, we see a newly-created South Entrance, which faces East Benson Boulevard. The SteamDot Coffee and BurgerFi stores opened in 2013 and 2016, respectively.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
Nordstrom Rack opened at MALL AT SEARS in September 2015. The store was carved out of the existing Sears, which was downsized by 35,000 square feet.
Photo from https://www.neeserinc.com / Neeser Construction Company / Ken Graham Photography
Photo from https://midtownmall.com
Sears pulled up stakes in April 2018. In July, the Sears-less complex was renamed MIDTOWN MALL. At the time of this circa-2019 layout, there were twenty-four stores and services, with eight vacancies. Although information provided lists a total of 1,100 mall parking spaces, this figure seems a bit off. DIMOND CENTER, which is three times the size of MIDTOWN MALL, lists a total of 850.
The abandoned Sears was rebuilt into The Shops at Seritage, which
housed Nordstrom Rack, Planet Fitness, Guitar Center and a relocated
Carrs-Safeway. Stores were open for business by mid-2019.
Photo from https://www.neeserinc.com / Neeser Construction Company
East Northern Lights Boulevard and Seward Highway
Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska's first shopping mall was developed by real estate entrepreneur Barney Gottstein and Lawrence J. "Larry" Carr, who operated the Carrs Food Center supermarket chain. They built a fully-enclosed shopping center on a 17.6-acre site, located 1.5 miles southeast of downtown Anchorage, in the city's Midtown area.
Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska's first shopping mall was developed by real estate entrepreneur Barney Gottstein and Lawrence J. "Larry" Carr, who operated the Carrs Food Center supermarket chain. They built a fully-enclosed shopping center on a 17.6-acre site, located 1.5 miles southeast of downtown Anchorage, in the city's Midtown area.
THE MALL was added to a 2-level (144,900 square foot) Sears, which had been dedicated on July 17, 1966. A mall-wide grand opening was held on January 31, 1968. At this time, THE MALL encompassed approximately 272,600 leasable square feet and housed thirty stores and services.
Anchoring THE MALL were the aforementioned Sears and 1-level (28,800 square foot) Carrs Food Center. Charter inline stores included Russell Stover Candies, a Wells Fargo Bank, Sheffield Cafeteria & Pub and Ben Franklin variety store.
Within 3 years, Sears was being enlarged by 28,500 square feet. The expanded store, now covering 173,500 square feet, was dedicated on July 29, 1972. It featured a Coffee House cafe and attached Auto Center. The Carrs Food Center was also enlarged around this time. Post-expansion, it measured 41,900 square feet. THE MALL now encompassed approximately 314,300 leasable square feet.
As the Sears expansion was being completed, the city's second enclosed shopping complex was opening its doors. UNIVERSITY CENTER {.5 miles southeast} was officially dedicated in April 1972. BONIFACE CENTER {3.1 miles east} debuted in June 1976. The first stores in DIMOND ["Diy-mund"] CENTER {2.7 miles south} began business in August 1977, with those in NORTHWAY MALL {2.1 miles northeast} being inaugurated in May 1980. FIFTH AVENUE MALL {a downtown development} welcomed first shoppers in August 1987.
By this time, the official name of THE MALL had morphed into THE MALL AT SEARS. An anchor rebranding took place in April 1999, after the Pleasanton, California-based Safeway chain acquired Anchorage-based Carrs. Following the merger, stores were known as Carrs Quality Center-Safeway or simply Carrs-Safeway.
A major renovation of THE MALL AT SEARS got underway in March 2011. The project created a new south side entrance, gave face lifts to the exterior of the building, replaced flooring, ceilings and restrooms and made room for four new retail spaces. The remodeling was completed in June 2011.
A 1-level (35,000 square foot) Nordstrom Rack was dedicated on September 3, 2015. The store was set up in the northeast corner of Sears. With its completion, Sears had been downsized to approximately 138,400 square feet. The store was shuttered in April 2018 and was placed under the ownership of Seritage Growth Properties, a real estate division of Sears Holdings. Seritage renovated the shuttered Sears, renaming it The Shops at Sertitage.
This store strip encompassed eight retail spaces. The largest of these was a (65,000 square foot) Carrs-Safeway supermarket, which relocated from the west end of the mall. Other stores included the aforementioned Nordstrom Rack, a (16,500 square foot) Guitar Center and (14,800 square foot) Planet Fitness. These were open for business by mid-2019. The original Carrs store was renovated and expanded, with a 1-level (55,000 square foot) REI Co-op opening on March 22, 2019.
As Sears was no longer anchoring the shopping hub, an official name change was in order. THE MALL AT SEARS was renamed MIDTOWN MALL in July 2018. The Shops at Seritage section of the shopping center was acquired by New York City-based Time Equities, Incorporated in April 2022. The mall proper -and REI Co-op- remained under the ownership of Anchorage's Carr Family Properties and Denali Commercial.
Sources:
The Anchorage Daily News
http://www.mallatsears.com (website on Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
https://property.muni.org / Municipality of Anchorage city-borough property search
Sources:
The Anchorage Daily News
http://www.mallatsears.com (website on Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
https://property.muni.org / Municipality of Anchorage city-borough property search
http://www.denalicommercial.com / Denali Commercial
http://www.carrgottstein.com / Carr Gottstein Properties
https://midtownmall.com
http://www.carrgottstein.com / Carr Gottstein Properties
https://midtownmall.com
https://www.rei.com / Recreational Equipment, Incorporated
https://www.akbizmag.com
https://timeequities.com / Time Equities, Incorporated
UNIVERSITY CENTER TENANTS 1972:
PAY 'N SAVE DRUG / SAFEWAY supermarket/ Alaska National Bank of the North / American Hairdressers / Anchorage House of Music / Bathique / Bering Sea Originals Gifts / Davey Jones Locker / Grizzly Burger / Hollie's Antiques / Key Island / Lin's Orientals / Lorene's / Michael's Jewelers of Eknai / Physician's Optical / Queen Size Shop / Roberts Toys & Infant Wear / Stallone's Men's wear / Swensen's Ice Cream Parlor / Tape & Platter Music / The Shoo-Inn / Three Sisters Fabrics / T.V. Sound Stage / University Center Barber Shop
A second phase of stores (in light gray) was dedicated in April 1975. This addition included a Washington State-based Lamonts department store. UNIVERSITY CENTER now encompassed approximately 294,000 leasable square feet and contained sixty-three stores and services. Free parking was provided for 303 autos.
By the mid-'80s, UNIVERSITY CENTER had four retail rival malls...with a fifth under construction. A 92,000 square foot South Wing was added (in dark gray). This included a 6-plex cinema. Unfortunately, the keeping up with the malls measure wasn't entirely successful. By the late 1990s, the shopping center was on life support.
Photo from https://www.crexi.com
Sadler's Home Furnishings was another major store to open in the retail portion of the mall.
Photo from "Dan A"
A contemporary view of the UNIVERSITY CENTER shopping concourse.
Photo from "Dan A"
The north anchor, originally a Safeway supermarket, more recently a Natural Pantry Fresh Market. This relocated to a new stand-alone store in January 2014.
Photo from http://www.indiebound.org
Photo from http://www.indiebound.org
JoAnn Fabrics operated in the store space between 2020 and 2024.
Photo from Google Maps
An aerial view of UNIVERSITY CENTER, looking toward the southeast. Running along the left side of the image is the Seward Highway expressway, also known as the New Seward Highway. The Old Seward Highway crosses the lower right corner of the image.
Photo from Google Maps
Photo from Google Maps
UNIVERSITY CENTER
Old Seward Highway and East 38th Avenue
Anchorage, Alaska
The second major shopping complex in the Land of the Midnight Sun was built by Anchorage's Walter Joseph "Wally" Hickel, under the auspices of the Hickel Investment Company. Designed by Anchorage's Crittenden, Cassetta & Canon firm, the fully-enclosed complex occupied a 32-acre site, located 2 miles southeast of downtown Anchorage.
Plans for UNIVERSITY CENTER were announced in July 1971, with construction, on a 147,000 square foot first phase, getting underway soon after. A (28,000 square foot) Safeway supermarket became the first operational store, on April 30, 1972. All twenty-six tenants were open for business by June of the same year.
The initial phase of UNIVERSITY CENTER was anchored by a 1-level (47,000 square foot), Seattle-based Pay 'n Save Drug-Ernst Hardware. Charter tenants included Bering Sea Originals Gifts, Tape & Platter Music and a Swensen's Ice Cream Parlor.
A second phase, added to the south end of the complex, was started in mid-1974. Its anchor, a 1-level (50,500 square foot), Bellevue, Washington-based Lamonts, held a grand opening on April 28, 1975. New stores in the new South Wing included Kinney Shoes and The Book Cache.
BONIFACE CENTER {2.9 miles northeast}, which was the city's third enclosed mall, held its grand opening in June 1976. In August 1977, DIMOND ["Diy-mund"] CENTER {2.7 miles south} was dedicated. May 1980 brought the completion of NORTHWAY MALL {2.5 miles northeast}. The most recent mall dedication in Anchorage was held in August 1987, when downtown's FIFTH AVENUE MALL opened its doors.
A third construction phase added 92,000 square feet to the south end of UNIVERSITY CENTER. This project was completed in late 1985. New mall tenants included Round Table Pizza, The Chocolate Chippery, Hickory Farms of Ohio and the Festival Enterprises University Cinemas 6. This multiplex showed first features on November 27, 1985.
The gross leasable area of UNIVERSITY CENTER now measured around 360,000 square feet. The late 1990s brought the first anchor rebranding. Pay 'n Save Drug became a Los Angeles-based PayLess Drug in May 1993. The PayLess chain was acquired by Philadelphia-based Rite Aid Drug in October 1996. The UNIVERSITY CENTER store was shuttered in 1998.
With all of the shopping mall competition, it wasn't long before UNIVERSITY CENTER began to suffer. The oil pipeline boom of the 1970s, which was an impetus for the mall's development, went bust in the 1980s. The mall's decline was exacerbated by new big box stores built in its vicinity in the 1990s. By 1998, UNIVERSITY CENTER was on life support.
Lamonts was rebranded, by Fresno-based Gottschalks, in September 2000. Unfortunately, this new store failed to slow the decline of the mall. Gottschalks was shuttered in May 2001. PayLess Drug had been rebranded by Rite Aid in 1996. This store was short-lived. The UNIVERSITY CENTER Safeway closed on April 29, 2000 and was replaced, by Natural Pantry Fresh Market, in June. Cinema 6, now operating under the Regal banner, went dark on June 30th.
UNIVERSITY CENTER was placed on the open market in October 2001. The University of Alaska Anchorage submitted a bid to purchase the property. They were out-bid by a joint venture of Anchorage-based Furniture Enterprises Alaska and JL Properties. In May 2002, the joint venture sold a 92,000 square foot section of the mall (mostly comprised of the 1985 expansion) to the University of Alaska Anchorage.
They reconfigured the area as classrooms, administrative offices and a Student Services Center (which occupied the old cinema). This satellite campus was dedicated in January 2003. At the same time, the retail area of the mall was refurbished, with a 2-level warehouse addition built at the rear of the structure. The mall anchor buildings now housed a Sadler's Home Furnishings store and La-Z-Boy Furniture Gallery.
Other stores and services in the retenanted-UNIVERSITY CENTER included Museum Source, Peppercini's Deli House, Seams Like Home Quilt Shop, Wind River Silks and La Bodega Wine & Spirits. The Natural Pantry Fresh Market relocated out of the mall in January 2014.
The University of Alaska Anchorage shuttered its satellite UNIVERSITY CENTER campus in 2019, with all facilities relocating to the main campus. JoAnn Fabrics set up shop in the old Safeway-Natural Pantry space in May 2020, but closed for good in February 2025.
Sources:
https://property.muni.org / Municipality of Anchorage city-borough property search
"Malled To Death" / Anchorage Press, 2000
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu / University of Alaska Anchorage
"Malled To Death" / Anchorage Press, 2000
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu / University of Alaska Anchorage
"Local Companies Purchase University Center Mall" / Alaska Business Monthly / February 2002
"Reconfiguring a Campus" / University of Alaska Anchorage / July 2003
http://www.universitycentermall.wordpress.com
https://www.cinematreasures.org
"JoAnn (Fabrics)" article on Wikipedia
http://www.universitycentermall.wordpress.com
https://www.cinematreasures.org
"JoAnn (Fabrics)" article on Wikipedia
The second suburban-style shopping mall in Fairbanks held its grand opening in April 1977. The fully-enclosed mini-mall was originally promoted with this logo.
Graphic from Barsa Associates
It bears mention, at this juncture, that Fairbanks had Alaska's first enclosed shopping court. The Northward Shopping Mall occupied the ground floor of the Northward Building apartment complex, which opened in February 1952. The facility featured twenty-three stores and services. These included Ray's Supermarket, Northward Drug Store and Tommy's Criterion.
Graphic from the Northward Building Company
The first suburban style shopping mall in Fairbanks opened for business in May 1972. GAVORA MALL was built between two freestanding stores; a Market Basket supermarket and Pay 'n Save Drug. These had opened in 1970. In all, the shopping complex contained seventeen stores and services.
Graphic from Gavora, Incorporated
Getting back to BENTLEY...a pre-opening ad beckons retailers to locate in the new mall. According to copy, its 16,000 square foot, climate-controlled shopping concourse will feature "quarry tile and wood parquet floors."
Advert from Barsa Associates
A rendering of the 10 million dollar BENTLEY MALL, as it appeared in 1977. The original complex included four peripheral retail and banking structures.
Drawing from Barsa Associates
Our first BENTLEY plan depicts the original, circa-1977 complex. It encompassed approximately 130,000 leasable square feet, with outparcel buildings covering an additional 34,500. The mall proper housed nineteen stores, with four outparcel buildings containing eight tenants. The mall provided free parking for 800 autos.
BENTLEY MALL TENANTS 1977:
SAFEWAY supermarket (with bakery and liquor store) / PAY 'N SAVE DRUG / All Seasons Sports / Bentley Books / Clowntown toys, games & hobbies / Kensington Place ladies' wear / Kinney Shoes / Lady Bug Boutique ladies' wear / National Bank of Alaska (outparcel) / Owl Tree ladies' wear / Pier 1 Imports / Sachs Men's Shop / Swensen's Ice Cream Factory / The Camera Center / The Card Center / The Chocolate Connection / The Fabric Center / The Music Corner records, tapes & electronics / The Rocking Horse children's wear / Zales Jewelers
EAST MALL BUILDING
One Hour Martinizing / Pioneer Take Out restaurant / The Barber Shop
WEST MALL BUILDING
Dean Whitter Company / Kelley's Photo Lab / Team Cutters hair stylists / The Italian Place Restaurant
A 12.4-acre parcel, adjacent to the west end of BENTLEY MALL, was developed in the early 1990s. A Pace Membership Warehouse was built as a "shadow anchor." The store was officially dedicated in November 1992.
Graphic from the Kmart Corporation
Wal-Mart Stores acquired ninety-one Pace Membership Warehouse locations in November 1993. The Fairbanks unit was part of this transaction. It was converted to a Sam's Club in June 1994.
Graphic from Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated
The Fairbanks Sam's Club was in operation until January 2018, when sixty-three Sam's stores were shuttered in unison. Costco assumed the vacant building and opened for business in November 2018.
Graphic from Costco Wholesale Corporation
Our second BENTLEY plan illustrates the mall and its outparcels as they stood in 1998. Earlier in the year, an east end addition (in light gray) was completed. This enlarged the Safeway and brought in Office Max as a third anchor store. The newly-enlarged mall now covered around 170,600 leasable square feet.
The west anchor at BENTLEY MALL opened, in April 1977, as a Pay 'n Save Drug. The buiding covered 28,000 square feet.
Graphic from the Pay 'n Save Corporation
The Pay 'n Save chain was acquired by PayLess Drug Stores. The BENTLEY MALL location was rebranded, as a PayLess Drug, in May 1993. The PayLess chain was acquired by Rite Aid Drug in 1996. Stores closed for good in 1998.
PayLess Drug Stores Northwest, Incorporated
The mall's vacant pharmacy was refashioned into a Michaels arts & crafts store, which welcomed first shoppers in March 1999.
Graphic from Michael's Stores, Incorporated
BENTLEY MALL was given an indoor-outdoor renovation in 2006. It was, and is, the preeminent retail complex in Fairbanks, as well as the largest mall in its trade area.
Photo from https://www.bentleymallfairbanks.com
As previously mentioned, the BENTLEY Safeway was expanded in 1997-1998. It was renovated again as part of the mall's 2006 facelift. With these improvements, the store -the largest in the mall- encompasses around 49,400 square feet.
Photo from https://www.bentleymallfairbanks.com
American Eagle Outfitters operated a BENTLEY MALL store between 2005 and 2023.
Photo from https://www.bentleymallfairbanks.com
In this image, we see the west end of the BENTLEY shopping concourse. The Payless ShoeSource store, seen in the center of the image, shut down in early 2019.
Photo from https://www.bentleymallfairbanks.com
The center section of the shopping concourse features retailers such as Torrid Plus Sizes and Hot Topic.
Photo from https://www.bentleymallfairbanks.com
On the east end of the concourse are Zales Jewelers, a charter, 1977 tenant, Zumiez and GameStop. The latter pulled up stakes in March 2021.
Photo from https://www.bentleymallfairbanks.com
BENTLEY MALL
College Road and Old Steese Highway
Fairbanks, Alaska
The first suburban shopping mall developed in The Golden Heart of Alaska (a.k.a. Fairbanks) opened for business in May 1972. GAVORA MALL, which originally had a small enclosed concourse, covered approximately 103,000 leasable square feet.
BENTLEY MALL was the city's second suburban-type shopping hub. Ground was broken at a 14.6-acre site, located 8. mile northeast of the downtown area, in June 1976. The land parcel was part of the holdings of the Bentley family, of Fairbanks. Over the years, the site had contained Bentley's Dairy Farm and the Miller-Bentley Equipment Company.
A fully-enclosed shopping complex was developed by Seattle's Barsa Associates and designed by the Dykeman, Ogden & Ellerbe firm of Everett, Washington. A 1-level (32,900 square foot) Safeway supermarket became the first operational tenant on March 13, 1977. A (28,000 square foot) Pay 'n Save Drug held its grand opening on April 26th, with a mall-wide grand opening commencing on April 29th. When fully-realized, BENTLEY MALL housed nineteen stores and services.
Charter tenants included Pier One Imports, Bentley Books, Lady Bug Boutique, Sachs Men's Shop and The Music Corner. Four freestanding structures in the mall's front parking area housed stores and services such as One Hour Martinizing, Kelley's Photo Lab and the National Bank of Alaska.
Apparently, four mall-type centers were eventually built in Fairbanks. In addition to BENTLEY MALL, these were the aforementioned GAVORA MALL (1972) {.1 mile south of BENTLEY MALL}, SHOPPER'S FORUM (1977) {1.5 miles southwest} and UNIVERSITY SQUARE MALL (1984) {2.9 miles southwest}. NORTH POLE PLAZA (1985) {12 miles southeast} was located in the suburb of North Pole, Alaska.
Over the years, several small, strip-type shopping centers were also built around Fairbanks. These included RIVER MALL (1985), CAMPUS CORNER MALL (1986), CORNERSTONE MALL (1986) and EAGLE PLAZA MALL (1986). Although promoted as quote-unquote "malls," these complexes had no enclosed shopping concourse.
The BENTLEY MALL site was expanded in the early 1990s. A 12.4-acre parcel, adjacent to the mall's west end, was utilized for a 1-level (161,000 square foot) Pace Membership Warehouse. This store began business on November 20, 1992.
Wal-Mart acquired ninety-one Pace Membership Warehouse locations in November 1993. Included in the transaction was the BENTLEY MALL store. It re-opened, under a Sam's Club nameplate, in June 1994. The Sam's Club structure was renovated in 2007. The store went dark on January 26, 2018 and re-opened, under a Costco brand, on November 20, 2018.
Meanwhile, the Pay 'n Save chain had been absorbed by PayLess Drug Stores in 1992. The BENTLEY MALL location was rebranded, as a PayLess Drug, in May 1993. PayLess Drug merged with the parent company of Thrifty Drugs in April 1994. A new entity, known as Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Incorporated, was formed. This company was acquired by the Rite Aid Corporation in October 1996. The BENTLEY MALL PayLess Drug was never rebranded by Rite Aid. It was shuttered in 1998. The vacant store was reconfigured as a Michaels arts & crafts emporium, which welcomed first shoppers on March 27, 1999.
In the previous year, the only physical expansion of BENTLEY MALL had been completed. Safeway was thoroughly remodeled and expanded by nearly 17,000 square feet. A 1-level (24,000 square foot) Office Max was also built on Safeway's east side. Office Max opened its doors on January 25, 1998, with the newly-enlarged Safeway being dedicated in March of the same year. The mall was given an indoor-outdoor renovation between September and October of 2006.
Ownership of BENTLEY MALL has changed on three occasions. The shopping hub was acquired by San Francisco-based Rawson, Blum & Leon (RBL Real Estate) in 1982. The San Francisco-based Krausz Companies bought the property in May 2007. Details are sketchy, but apparently, the mall was sold in June 2018 to joint venture of two entities. These were the KE Bentley, Limited Liability Company and KGC Bentley, Limited Liability Company. Both are based in San Francisco.
In the mid-2020s, the mall proper contains twelve stores and services, with spaces for twenty-two. Tenants include Foot Locker, Claire's, Zumiez and Journey's Shoes. East and West Satellite Buildings house eight tenants. Among these are Starbucks Coffee, Cricket Wireless and Sally Beauty Supply. There are three other freestanding structures; Autozone, a Wells Fargo Bank and Safeway filling station.
Sources:
Fairbanks Daily News Miner
The Tundra Times (Fairbanks, Alaska)
The Anchorage Daily News
https://propertysearch.fnsb.gov / Fairbanks North Star Borough property search
http://www.krauszcompanies.com / Krauz Companies
https://www.bentleymallfairbanks.com
https://local.safeway.com
"Pay 'n Save," "PayLess Drug," "Pace Membership Warehouse," "Sam's Club," and "Bentley Mall" articles on Wikipedia
DIMOND CENTER TENANTS 1977:
LOWER LEVEL
PAY 'N SAVE DRUG / SAFEWAY supermarket / Alaska Bank of Commerce / Alyeska Candy Kitchen / Book Cache / Dimond Optical / Health Nut / Interior Reflections / Kinney Shoes / Mariah Junior ladies' wear / Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio / Nickelodeon Music / Picnic / The Bakery / The Hub men's wear / The Ice Creamery / Zales Jewelers
UPPER LEVEL
Anchorage Municipal Library / Career Girl / Coachhouse Cards & Gifts / Clowntown Anchorage / Copper Rivet Jeans / Fabric City / Gallery 20 / Golden Threads / Hudson's Shoes / Little Miss & Mister children's wear / North Country Jeans / Pier 1 Imports / Rain Forest / Ronald's Hair Design / Shirt Factory / The PanTree's Place Setter / The Perfect Cup Plus / Welch's Contempo / Yogurt Delight
This circa-'82 view was taken soon after the opening of a 20 million dollar "Phase Two" expansion. With its completion, DIMOND CENTER became the largest enclosed mall in Alaska, a distinction it holds to this day.
Photo from https://dimondcenter.com
The Professional (Office) Tower at DIMOND CENTER was dedicated in 1987. It included a bowling alley, fitness center and Ice Chalet skating rink.
Photo from www.dataflowalaska.com
With its early '80s expansion, DIMOND CENTER trumped the 339,300 square foot NORTHWAY MALL, which had been the largest shopping complex in Alaska since 1980.
Photo from www.loopnet.com
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