[1] The mall's anchor stores are JCPenney, Scheels All Sports, Target, Barnes & Noble, AMC Theatres, T-Mobile, Party City, Carter's, Old Navy, and Ulta Beauty.

Located 50 miles (80 km) from the Canada–US border, the mall also draws a significant number of customers from Canada.

[5] The hotel also features Splashdown Dakota Super Slides, a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m2) water park complex which opened in April 2004.

[5] Dakota Square is one of only a few shopping malls in the United States to feature an attached hotel.

[12] That space has been divided into smaller stores like Party City, Ross Dress For Less, T-Mobile, and Ulta Beauty.