[2] After a long decline, the mall closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012 before being redeveloped into the Shingle Creek Crossing development.

[3] " A 90-acre site in Brooklyn Center (at the crossroads of Osseo Rd, N. 57th Ave., Minnesota State Highway 100, and Shingle Creek)[4] was chosen as the location because Dayton's believed that the area would experience the most growth in suburban Minneapolis within the next ten years.

Previously, another developer was interested in the same site for a shopping center, but was rejected because of opposition from nearby land owners.

Dayton's also believed that being five miles away from Apache Plaza would not make them competitors (between the two malls was the Mississippi River).

[13] The stores open at the grand opening, or soon thereafter, in Phase One were Baker Shoes (Edison Brothers Stores), Berkley's, Brookdale Barber Shop, Brookdale Pet Center, Brookdale Municipal Liquor, Brown Photo, Buttrey's, Fanny Farmer Candy Shop, Fashion Beauty Salon, G & K Cleaners, Gager's Handicraft, Grayson's, Hallmark Cards, Jack and Jill, Kinney Shoes, Lancer, Mangel and Hill Meats, Michal's Shoe Repair, Minneapolis Gas Company, Northwestern Federal Savings and Loan, JCPenney, The Record Shop, Sears, Snyder Drug, SuperValu, Walbom's, Williams Cafeteria, F. W. Woolworth Company, Snack Bar, Sears Automotive.

Donaldson's opened in September 1967, thus making Brookdale the first Twin Cities area shopping mall with four anchor stores.

Several nearby major construction projects of the 1960s and 1970s were the addition of businesses featuring Brookdale Ford, a strip mall, and movie theater; as well as many other commercial and residential properties.

[24] The Baby Boomer population of Brooklyn Center also had grown up and moved away from home, leaving their middle aged parents behind.

[26] Nine years after purchasing Brookdale, Equitable Life Assurance Company sold it to Midwest Realty, a limited partnership division of Shearson Lehman.

[27] Equitable Life Assurance Company ultimately foreclosed on the loan when Midwest Realty filed Chapter 11,[28] and the mall was placed in receivership and tied up in the courts for several years.

While Brooklyn Center saw an overall decrease in crime, shoplifting was on the rise in the area, where juvenile theft and larceny had jumped 100 percent during the previous five years.

Brookdale participated in a joint program with Brooklyn Center whereas first time juvenile offenders could apologize to the store, possibly make restitution, and thus avoid a criminal record.

[27] In 1997, Talisman Company purchased Brookdale for $25 million[31] from ERE Yarmouth (formerly known as Equitable Life Assurance).

[34] Improvements included adding two junior anchors, Old Navy and Barnes & Noble, along with youth oriented tenants, a food court, sit down restaurants, cosmetic changes, and better lighting.

[27][35][36] Brookdale also applied for, and won, $2.9 million in tax increment financing from the city of Brooklyn Center for the renovation.

In 2003, mall owner Jim Schlesinger, CEO of Talisman Company, ousted Metro Transit from using Brookdale as a bus center hub.

At the time, Metro Transit was running 4,000 passengers per day through Brookdale, and Schlesinger said that he would allow the mall to be a destination, but not a hub for ride transfers.

He said he was not running a charity, and that bus riders hanging out at the mall waiting on ride transfers did not make good customers.

[38] In 2007, Walmart expressed interest in the Mervyn's site; however, that plan was stalled after Sears filed suit.

Due to these patterns dating back when the mall was developed, Brooklyn Center had a blue collar reputation from the beginning through the 1990s.

On April 27, 2010, local newspaper Star Tribune reported that Brookdale had closed on the previous day.

The Kohl's store, built in 1987 and detached from the main mall building, was initially part of Gatlin's redevelopment plan, but closed in 2014.

Walmart's interest in challenging home town Target, and their market dominance, by constructing on the Brookdale site was credited in 2016 as a defining moment for Twin Cities real estate post-recession turnaround in the area.

[64] On March 21, 2023, Walmart announced it would close its Brooklyn Center store on April 21, 2023, after 10 years in business.

[65] The Single Creek Crossing shopping center was affected by civil unrest in the aftermath following several police killings of African Americans in the early 2020s.

[66] On April 11 and 12, 2021, several stores were looted during the Daunte Wright protests; it was reported that a majority of the businesses at the shopping center were damaged.

[67] On February 18, 2022, the Icon Beauty store was looted following a sentencing announcement for Kimberly Potter, the Brooklyn Center police officer who was convicted of manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright.