Des Moines

Plans for a fourth anchor store at Valley West Mall were announced on two separate occasions but never materialized. In March 1999, Dillard’s signed a letter of intent with Watson Centers to build a $30 million store and parking ramp, but the letter of intent expired in August 2000, and Dillard’s located in the new Jordan Creek Town Center instead. […]

Merle Hay Mall opened in 1959, it is the oldest regional shopping center in Iowa, and was the largest mall in Iowa in terms of gross leasable area before the 2004 opening of Jordan Creek Town Center in neighboring West Des Moines.  Sears, Younkers, Kohl’s, and Target are the mall’s anchor stores, while Applebee’s, IHOP, and Starbucks operate on the […]

Kaleidoscope at the Hub was an indoor shopping mall located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Opened in 1985, it featured over 30 stores and a popular food court, serving the daily needs of the business district’s workforce. In May 2018, plans were announced to demolish the mall to make way for a 33-story mixed-use skyscraper. The majority of the mall […]

Jordan Creek Town Center is the largest shopping complex in Iowa and the 23rd largest in the United States. Jordan Creek Town Center have a leasable area of 1,340,000 square feet. The two-level two-million-square-foot mall features a streetscape design highlighted by a three-acre lake surrounded by bike trails and a boardwalk with waterfront dining. It also has a five-star hotel […]