The village would have contained a mixture of commercial, residential, and office development that was intended to attract upscale retailers similar to those at Country Club Plaza in Kansas City.

In 1999, following the success of Coral Ridge Mall in eastern Iowa, General Growth Properties chose the Wittern site for its proposed "town center" concept.

The Iowa Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit on February 27, 2002,[5] allowing construction of the $200 million complex to begin later that year.

In May 2007, Iowa State University economists David Swenson and Liesl Eathington released a study showing that retail sales in the Dallas County portion of West Des Moines had increased by over $310 million, or 503.7 percent, during Jordan Creek's first two years of operation.

[9][10] In February 2018, Iowa-based department store Von Maur announced it would construct a new location at the mall, with a planned opening in 2022.