[4] Carson Pirie Scott was also considered for a third anchor store to the mall, but Maisel was unable to secure a lease for the chain.

[5] As the shopping mall did not encompass the entirety of the former brickyard, portions of it remained vacant until 1983, when the city of Chicago acquired a $10,000,000 grant to demolish the remaining unused portions of the former brickyard and sell the lot to Maisel and Associates for future mall expansion.

As part of the acquisition, an adjacent strip mall called Bricktown Square also began immediately to the south; this center included Toys "R" Us, Frank's Nursery & Crafts, Sport Mart sporting goods store, and a six-screen cinema owned by Plitt Theatres.

[8] Despite this change, the mall saw a rapid decrease in tenancy at the end of the 20th century due to the bankruptcies of Kmart and Montgomery Ward, combined with the closure of J. C. Penney.

By 2003, the mall was nearly 80 percent vacant, so the city council approved a $100,000,000 redevelopment plan to demolish the structure.