MALL HALL OF FAME

Vermont's Rutland Mall As the ad attests, RUTLAND MALL was Vermont's first climate-controlled shopping center. The first opera...

The southwestern Vermont shopping hub was anchored by Montgomery Ward and a Zayre discount mart. Both held grand openings in the fall of 197...

One of several Zayre-anchored mini-malls in New England, RUTLAND MALL (a.k.a. GREAT RUTLAND MALL) spanned around 217,800 leasable square fee...

Three area shopping hubs, of varying sizes, were in direct competition with RUTLAND MALL. WESTWAY MALL, seen here, is technically not ...

After the completion of DIAMOND RUN MALL, the Marble City's original mall quickly declined into a veritable ghost town. In 2001, the com...

Vermont's Green Mountain Mall St. Johnsbury, the "shire town" (or county seat) of Vermont's Caledonia County, is locate...

In 1975, the shiny new GREEN MOUNTAIN MALL encompassed around 181,000 leasable square feet. There were fifteen tenant spaces and free pa...

This Green Mountain State shopping complex achieved its 60th year in business in November 2024. Over the years, it has never been ph...

GREEN MOUNTAIN MALL Memorial Drive and Sanger Circle St. Johnsbury, Vermont What was Vermont's first mall-type shopping center? There ar...

South Burlington's University Mall Named for its proximity to the University of Vermont, UNIVERSITY MALL presently spans over 600,00...

In the beginning, there were two freestanding department stores at the future UNIVERSITY MALL site. Zayre opened for business in la...

  A vintage view of the Almys mall entrance. The store included a Beauty Salon and J & J snack bar restaurant. Photo from Frederick Gr...

By 1999, the present-day footprint of U-MALL is established. J.C. Penney opened a store in late 1992. Sears dedicated theirs in late 1998. ...

A view of the U-MALL North Wing includes the storefront of one of the center's charter anchor stores off in the distance. Origin...

J.C. Penney gutted half of the original -1970-vintage- Zayre, and added around 67,000 square feet. The U-MALL Penney's includes a...

U-MALL, circa-2015. By our calculations, it has been the largest enclosed mall in Vermont since its inception, back in 1979. With its c...

Vermont's very first Target store opened at U-MALL in October 2018. It assumed space vacated by The Bon Ton in the previous Janua...

UNIVERSITY MALL Dorset Street and Williston Road South Burlington, Vermont Syracuse, New York's Pyramid Companies were the first cor...