Newgate Mall

Homart Development Company, then a shopping-mall development arm owned by Sears, built Newgate Mall, opening in 1981 in Ogden, Utah, anchored at opening by Sears and Mervyn’s; Sears itself had operated on the site before construction and sold its earlier building to Mervyn’s once the new mall location was ready. Among the mall’s early tenants was the first Chick-fil-A location in Utah.

Phar-Mor joined in February 1992 but closed just seven months later, and Dillard’s opened its second Utah store at the property in 1994. A later anchor space became Gart Sports in 2001, and that space’s continued transition through Sports Authority is worth flagging: Sports Authority itself went bankrupt and closed all US stores in 2016, so any current listing under that name likely reflects outdated data rather than an active store.

At roughly 725,148 sqft, the property carries more than 60 stores across five anchor positions, including active anchors Dillard’s and a Cinemark theater, with Burlington now occupying the former Sears space. The Woodmont Company currently manages the property.

That “developer that was itself a Sears subsidiary” origin story, building a mall whose own parent company would later become one of its own anchor tenants’ most consequential departures decades later, reflects how thoroughly the department-store industry’s own internal structure shaped mid-century American mall development, with Sears-owned Homart building malls across the country partly to secure its own future anchor locations.