MALL HALL OF FAME

Omaha's Westroads Center First came CROSSROADS, then SOUTHROADS. The third of Omaha's "Roads" malls was developed in the...

Our first WESTROADS plan dates to the earlier part of 1969. At this time, the mall was a 2-level (with basement), tri-anchor shopping center...

The shopping concourses at the original mall were named after several European locales and American cities. There was a  Westminster Mall , ...

A site plan from 1977 shows the recently-added Brandeis branch. The mall's first anchor nameplate change rebranded the center departme...

A fourth WESTROADS anchor -a branch of Iowa's Von Maur chain- opened for business in August 1995. The 3-level store encompassed 179,1...

Originally built as a Galyan's Trading Company, this store opened in August 2003. It was rebranded by Dick's Sporting Goods in Oc...

The Rave Cinemas  Westroads 14 was completed in November 2008. It became an AMC venue in 2012. Photo from Wikipedia / "JonCl...

In 2003, Younkers moved over to a vacant The Jones Store spot. By 2016, the north facade of the mall has been rebuilt. There are now a Dic...

WESTROADS CENTER West Dodge Road / US 6 and North 96th Street Douglas County (Omaha), Nebraska Omaha's John A. Wiebe ["Wee-bee...

Omaha's The Crossroads  The first stores in America's sixth fully-enclosed shopping mall opened in September 1960. THE CROSS...

In 1961, THE CROSSROADS spanned around 590,000 leasable square feet. The dumbell plan mall housed around twenty-four stores and provided fr...

A cross-section of the original mall. Its stores opened on an east-west "Arcade," which ran between two tri-level anchors...

A vintage photo of the CROSSROADS Brandeis. It operated under that nameplate for over 26 years. The store was rebranded, by Iowa's ...

Between 1986 and 1988, CROSSROADS MALL was given a 40 million dollar expansion and renovation. The aforementioned Dillard's came on bo...

A circa-2006 physical layout shows the orientation of a new Target. By this time, the mall was in a downward spiral. Its Dillard's would...

A frontal view of the CROSSROADS Target. Soon after this snapshot was taken, the mall would begin a downward spiral. Photo from Douglas C...

A circa-2018 plan for the redevelopment of CROSSROADS MALL advocated construction of a New Urbanism-style CROSSROADS VILLAGE. This would...

THE CROSSROADS Dodge Street / US 6 and North 72nd Street Omaha, Nebraska Omaha's Brandeis ["bran-diys"] Investment ...

Omaha's The Center One of America's first fully-enclosed, suburban shopping malls was built on the outskirts of Omaha's downt...

One of the charter tenants at THE CENTER was National Shirt Shops, a men's sportswear retailer. The store was located on the mal...