MALL HALL OF FAME

Jefferson City's Capital Mall Mid-Missouri's CAPITAL MALL was officially dedicated in February 1978. The original center encompa...

During the mall's early years, Sears was its lone anchor. The store operated on the west end of the shopping facility for 39 years. Phot...

CAPITAL MALL was the sixteenth built by General Growth Development (the mother company of General Growth Properties). The complex was one o...

The CAPITAL complex is fully-realized by the mid-1980s. Two anchor stores have been added, along with a 2-screen cinema. The mall now...

Little Rock-based Dillard's opened their CAPITAL MALL store in early 1985. Photo from www.showcase.com

Two additional auditoria were eventually added to the mall's 2-screen cinema. This theater shut down in the summer of 2009. Photo ...

A small CAPITAL MALL expansion enlarged the existing twin cinema into a 4-screen operation (in medium gray). By 2008, the shopping hub ...

CAPITAL MALL West Truman Boulevard (Ten Mile Drive) and Country Club Drive Jefferson City, Missouri Missouri's capital city shopping...

Missouri's Biscayne Mall Northern mid-Missouri's BISCAYNE MALL   was in operation between 1972 and 2002. Graphic from the Hanson D...

The BISCAYNE MALL Montgomery Ward opened its doors in February 1972. The store anchored the south end of the complex for 24 years. Drawing...

In 1973, CoMo's 1-Stop Shopping Center  encompassed around 270,000 leasable square feet and housed twenty-seven stores and services. ...

The commercial predecessor of BISCAYNE MALL was PARKADE PLAZA, which opened in March 1965. Housing 215,000 square feet, it was the fi...

BISCAYNE MALL took a direct hit from COLUMBIA MALL in the mid-to-late 1980s. By the early 2000s, the older complex was being gradually d...

BISCAYNE MALL North Stadium Boulevard and West Worley Street Columbia, Missouri Columbia, Missouri is located 111 miles west of St. L...

Kansas City's Antioch Center   The Show Me State's first shopping mall opened for business in August 1956. The sign above st...

An aerial view of ANTIOCH CENTER, from the late 1950s. As was the case with most early American malls, the structure was completed in...

The Missouri and Kansas division of R.H. Macy & Company anchored the second phase of ANTIOCH CENTER, which was built in 1962 and ...

The shopping hub was extended northward in 1965-'66, with two store blocks (in dark gray ) built. These housed new Duff & R...

ANTIOCH CENTER was enclosed and climate-controlled in 1978-'79. An exterior face lift was done in 1993. By this time, a Payless C...

By the dawn of the 21st century, ANTIOCH CENTER had been bested by other retail venues in its trade area...especially the METRO NOR...