The mall officially opened with 51 stores and services; as well as an extensive underground parking garage; on July 30, 1970.

One of its anchor tenants, Simpsons-Sears (Sears Canada), opened for business in 1968, more than a year ahead of the rest of the mall, but closed January 2018.

Another "day one" retailer was a franchise of the Dominion grocery store chain, which operated in the mall until the chain pulled out of Saskatoon in the late 1980s; after a few years of short-term uses (including housing its popular Eaton's-sponsored Christmas lights display), the mall redeveloped the former Dominion store into a food court.

[5] Following the closure of the Sears Canada chain in 2018, the mall began to redevelop the store's space into a new wing with a re-located food court known as Midtown Common, which opened on July 25, 2019.

[6] In November 2018, it was announced that the previous main-floor food court area would be redeveloped into an MEC, as its first location in the province.