[6] At the time of its grand opening in October 1972, it was the third largest shopping center in the Twin Cities.

The mall was built oriented parallel to the highway, which runs in a Northwesterly direction to Anoka.

[7] Target Greatland opened west across the street from the mall in nearby Coon Rapids in July 1992.

[12] The old Woolworth's was divided between HomePlace and Best Buy in the late 1990s, the same year that a food court was added to the mall.

[15] The Montgomery Ward store location anchoring the west end of the mall was closed by 2001.

[17] The store assumed an anchor position in the mall once occupied by Carson Pirie Scott, which was a corporate sibling of Herberger's.

A New Hobby Lobby store opened in 2015 with 55,000 square feet floor area at the west end of the mall.

[21] The Robert Muir Company sold the mall to Rein Northtown Associates of New York in 1985 for $33 million.

[22] Within nine months, it was sold to Angeles Corporation, a California investment management company, for $38.1 million.

[23] Florida-based 4th Dimension Properties bought the mall from Washington Prime for $31 million in August 2023.