[1] Today, The Village at Totem Lake includes retail, restaurants, office space, and on-site residential to create a mixed-use center.

Current tenants include Cinemark, Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe's, Nordstrom Rack, Ross Dress for Less, Ulta Beauty, Mendocino Farms, lululemon, Barnes & Noble, Auto Zone, Panda Express, AT&T, Key Bank, Chipotle, Sephora, Salt & Straw, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Xfinity, MOD Pizza, Verizon, T-Mobile, Wells Fargo, 203 °F Coffee Co, All The Best Pet Care, Anthony Vince' Nail Spa, Athleta, Due' Cucina, Evereve, Joe's Burgers, Lady Yum, Urban Tread, Vida Integrated Health, Yuan Spa.

[2] Plus the Pacific Northwest's first sweetgreen[3] Originally called the Totem Lake Center, the mall was first proposed in early 1968 to take advantage of a prominent site along the newly constructed Interstate 405[4] and ground was broken in June 1972.

[10] The mall's 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) Lamonts Anchor tenant/department store, the sixth in the Pay 'n Save Corporation-owned chain, was still under construction at the time, and would not open until October 17 of that year.

A huge snow storm in 1997 caused part of the lower mall's roof to cave in, triggering the sprinklers and flooding the entire building in 3 inches (76 mm) of water.

The space eventually was divided into three stores, Ross, Famous Footwear and Cartoys, and given a remodel that contrasted greatly with the rest of the mall.

Due to the financial struggles of its owners and a steady loss of inside tenants since the early 2000s the shopping center was becoming known as a dead mall and very little maintenance was done to fix the leaking roofs and other problems.

The economic downturn of 2008 prevented any attempts to revive the mall as it stood and its only new tenants during this time consisted of flea markets and seasonal pop-up stores.

[21] In February 2009, it was revealed that due to the harsh economic climate, DDR had postponed its redevelopment plans for the mall indefinitely and was searching for someone to buy the property.