The anchor stores are REI, Total Wine & More, Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Best Buy, and Century Theatres.

[2] A 1978 article in The Spokesman-Review stated that Capital Mall was an integral factor in development of the city of Olympia.

[4] The mall began with four anchor department stores: The Bon Marche, JCPenney, Frederick and Nelson, and Lamonts.

[3] J. C. Penney's store cost about $2.7 million to build and was designed by the Los Angeles, California firm of Burke Nicolais Archuleta.

One facet of the expansion opened in 2002, when the vacated Lamonts store was replaced by a Best Buy and a food court.