The mall's anchor stores are I. Keating Furniture & Flooring, Ashley HomeStore, Scheels, JCPenney, Tilt Studio, and Target.

Also, Herberger's significantly expanded its Kirkwood store after closing its Gateway Mall location on the north side of Bismarck.

In December 2012, CBL & Associates, a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based REIT, announced plans to purchase the mall within 90 days.

[6] Victoria's Secret also underwent an expansion during the summer of 2013 On April 18, 2018, it was announced that Herberger's would be closing as parent company The Bon-Ton Stores was going out of business.

[7] In spring 2020, it was announced that the space was to be renovated in a new wing featuring Chick-Fil-A, Five Guys and Blaze Pizza with some room left over for future retail.

[8] However this was instead moved to the nearby parking lot and the old Herberger's building will now host a new branch of the family arcade complex, Tilt Studios.

Kirkwood Mall houses four major anchor stores including J. C. Penney, Target, Scheels, and I. Keating Furniture.

The TJ Maxx has since relocated to the new Pinehurst Square Shopping Center, and in its place is North Dakota's first Gold's Gym.