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4500 TACOMA MALL BLVD, TACOMA

• 18 images. Tacoma Mall Allied Stores, builder John Graham & Co., arch. Nelson Construction Co., contr. Marvin E. Boys, supt. of construction -construction started in 1963 -ground breaking ceremony 6/19/1963 -Bon Marche opened 8/3/1964 -completed mall opened 10/13/1965 -70 stores at opening -planning begun in 1958 with the proposed development known as Town Center, followed by the proposed Freeway Mart in 1961 -addition on the west side of complex in 1973 -Frederick & Nelson addition in 1978 -Sears Roebuck addition opened in 1981 -Nordstrom expansion completed in 1983 -grand reopening after remodeling and food court addition 4/29/2000 -opened with 55 stores and 900,000 square feet of selling space in 1965 -135 stores and 1,400,000 square feet as of 1984 -Sears store demolished in 2019 SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
• TNT 4/7/1958 p.1 Zoning sought for big 43rd and Pine center (proposed Town Center)
• TNT 6/4/1958 p.B7 Foes doubt Town Center's high claims
• TNT 7/16/1958 p.C4 Planners hit South Side center plans
• TNT 7/29/1958 p.27 Zone plea will be reheard
• TNT 9/11/1958 p.B6 Proposed new shopping center (sketch)
• TNT 9/17/1958 p.D6 City planners again kill shopping center plan
• TNT 10/25/1958 p.1 Mayor Hanson debates shopping center plan
• TNT 10/28/1958 p.1 City Council postpones zoing vote ... put off after long, stormy hearing
• TNT 11/9/1958 p.B11 A great Tacoma robbery (full page ad in favor of Town Center)
• TNT 11/18/1958 p.1 Council starts on detour to Town Center
• TNT 1/12/1959 p.1 Shopping center turned down; councilmen vote 5-4 in showdown
• TNT 3/31/1959 p.1 New shopping center plan filed here (Tacoma Freeway Mart)
• TNT 4/22/1959 p.A6 Shop center hearing again inaugurated
• TNT 6/3/1959 p.A15 Smaller retail center pondered after hearing
• TNT 7/8/1959 p.A1 Planners turn down shop center
• TNT 7/21/1959 p.14 Shop center appeal filed
• TNT 8/9/1959 p.A1 City Council will hear mart appeal
• TNT 8/11/1959 p.1 Verbal war waged over new center
• TNT 8/23/1959 p.A1 Shopping center issue faces council Monday
• TNT 8/25/1959 p.1 Lesser Freeway Mart OKed; rezoning of 35 acres approved
• TNT 10/7/1959 p.A1 Planners OK retail center near freeway
• TNT 5/27/1960 p.9 Architect for mart named
• TNT 7/25/1961 p.A1 Bon Marche planning new store
• TNT 7/26/1961 p.A1 New Bon to be 4-story structure
• TNT 9/11/1961 p.12 Retail center plan filed (under new name, "Tacoma Mall")
• TNT 10/17/1961 p.A1 City planners vote 80-acre shopping area
• TNT 12/27/1961 p.C2 Southcenter zoning OKd
• TNT 1/11/1962 Tacoma's new Bon to eclipse Northgate
• TNT 2/3/1963 p.C17 Commission to consider contract for mall access
• TNT 2/5/1963 p.11 Plan board OKs Tacoma Mall contract
• TNT 2/20/1963 p.A1 Council OKs Tacoma Mall agreement
• TNT 2/24/1963 p.B5 New Bon Marche this year, company hopes (John Graham & Co. of Seattle, arch.) (sketch)
• TNT 3/13/1963 p.C10 Bids invited on building of new store
• TNT 4/19/1963 p.B2 Low bidder reported on Bon project
• TNT 6/16/1963 p.A1 Work starts soon on spacious, new Bon Marche (sketch)
• TNT 6/18/1963 p.4 Tacoma Mall wiring OK'd
• TNT 6/19/1963 p.B6 500 may work at new center when finished (il of ground breaking)
• TNT 6/20/1963 p.B4 Permit filed for center on S. Steele
• TNT 7/7/1963 p.A1,C18 J.C. Penney signs for mall store
• TNT 10/13/1963 p.B9 Thriftway plans huge Tacoma Mall market
• TNT 11/3/1963 p.A1 Bon Marche store at Tacoma Mall rises to herald new center (il under construction)
• TNT 11/27/1963 p.1 Tacoma Mall lease signed by Pay Less (sketch)
• TNT 1/31/1964 p.A8 Four workmen injured when forms collapse
• TNT 2/11/1964 p.12 Falling part injures man
• TNT 5/17/1964 p.B8 Region's largest department store nearing completion (Nelson Construction Co., contr.) (il)
• TNT 5/27/1964 Tacoma firm low bidder
• TNT 6/14/1964 p.A16 Nelson Co. awarded mall shell contract
• TNT 7/1/1964 p.B1 (full page ad for the Bon Marche) (sketch)
• TNT 7/4/1966 p.B1 (full page ad) (aerial il)
• TNT 7/29/1964 Sellen looks to get Penney mall contract
• TNT 8/2/1964 p.A1,B1-B9 New Bon Marche opens at Tacoma Mall Monday (il)
• TNT 8/4/1964 p.18 150,000 visit Bon Marche on first day (il)
• TNT 8/9/1964 p.C19 Penney lets mall contract (James I. Barnes Construction Co. of Seattle, contr.)
• TNT 8/26/1964 p.A2 Penney store will cost $1.7 million
• TNT 12/15/1964 p.1 Mall held benefit to downtown; but veteran realtor disgrees ...
• TNT 1/1/1965 p.1 Pattenrn of progress (il of entrance)
• TNT 3/16/1965 Penney's new store (sketch)
• TNT 5/5/1965 p.A4 Tacoma Mall changes area shopping habits
• TNT 6/23/1965 p.18 New Nordstrom-Best store (sketch)
• TNT 6/28/1965 p.1 Tacoma Mall store planned (sketch of proposed Nordstrom-Best store by John Graham & Co., arch.)
• TNT 7/7/1965 p.A9 Second mall expansion phase opens (il)
• TNT 8/1/1965 p.B6 Tacoma Mall store planned by Weisfield's (sketch)
• TNT 8/18/1965 p.A7 Clothing firm plans new store at Mall (Foreman & Clark)
• TNT 8/22/1965 p.B8 Area's second Helen Davis Store to open (sketch)
• TNT 8/24/1965 p.1 Penney plans move to mall
• TNT 8/29/1965 p.B11 Gigantic Mall prepares for Oct. 13 opening (il)
• TNT 9/12/1965 p.D17 Andrews opening new Tacoma Mall center (sketch of Andrews Women's Apparel)
• TNT 9/19/1965 p.A15 Commerce Savings & Loan office at Mall near completion (Donald F. Burr & Associates, arch. and Woodworth & Co, contr.) (52 ft. antique copper sign)
• TNT 9/23/1965 p.A3 Who's where at the Tacoma Mall (full page ad)
• TNT 10/3/1965 p.B14 Crews rush mall work for opening (interior il)
• TNT 10/7/1965 p.A3 Who's where at the Tacoma Mall (floor plan)
• TNT 10/10/1965 p.B9 Tacoma Mall location held ideal (map)
• TNT 10/12/1965 p.A1-A8,B1-B26,C1-C20,D1-D14 Tacoma Mall's grand opening set Wednesday (il)
• TNT 10/14/1965 p.A1 Mall on opening day: event opens 54 firms (il)
• TNT 10/18/1965 p.B1-B6 Pay Less grand opening (il)
• TNT 10/19/1965 p.19 400,000 visit Tacoma's Mall
• TNT 10/20/1965 p.B1-B3 New Tacoma Mall Thriftway
• TNT 10/23/1965 p.A3 Thank you
• TNT 10/31/1965 p.A4 Foreman & Clark opens new store at Tacoma Mall
• TNT 11/4/1965 p.A8,A11 Weisfield Jewelers opening Mall store
• TNT 11/17/1965 p.A12,A13 Kress Co. opening Mall store (Kress Variety Fari)
• TNT 11/21/1965 p.B6 Lyon's Apparel Store opens Friday in Mall
• TNT 11/26/1965 p.B1-B8 Klopfenstein's opens men's store at Mall
• TNT 11/28/1965 p.B9,B10 One roof covers 70 Mall stores (il)
• TNT 11/30/1965 p.C1 Opens tomorrow ... (interior il of Puget Sound Mutual Savings Bank)
• TNT 12/9/1965 p.B11 Contract let for Tacoma Mall store (Nordstrom-Best Store by Baugh Construction Co. of Seattle, contr.)
• TNT 1/9/1966 p.D15 Traffic at 38th and Steele exceeds count recorded on Pacific Avenue
• TNT 1/16/1966 p.B6 Introducing ... Johnny's on the Mall
• TNT 3/24/1966 p.A2,A3 Zukors on the Mall plans grand opening (sketch)
• TNT 7/31/1966 p.C23,D7 Miss Washington will help open Mall's new Nordstrom Best store (il)
• TNT 8/4/1966 p.B1 Nordstrom Best opens Friday ... (il) p.B5 Stebner's is now on the Mall! (il)
• TNT 2/7/1967 p.D1 "Meet me at the Tacoma Mall" (full page ad)
• TNT 4/23/1967 p.A1 Chase ends attempt to rob Mall store (Bon Marche)
• TNT 5/2/1967 p.29 Welcome to your new Mall super foods (full page ad)
• TNT 7/18/1967 p.D1 World's biggest postcard (interior il)
• TNT 8/20/1967 p.C21 Use of brick wins award (il of Puget Sound Mutual Savings Bank by Lyle Swedberg, arch. and Paul Nels Carlson Co., contr.)
• TNT 10/5/1967 p.B2 Tacoma Mall has featured may events: Over 70,000 visit mall each week: Air conditioning at Mall tested
• TNT 7/28/1968 p.B7 See these 21 surprises at the Tacoma Mall (full page ad)
• TNT 11/18/1969 p.7,9-11 Grand opening (sketch of Lucky Discount Supermarket)
• TNT 9/2/1971 p.1 Tacoma Mall plans large expansion (sketch) T.Review 3/14/1973 p.1 Mall expansion to open July 25 (interior il)
• TNT 7/24/1973 Tacoma's Tacoma Mall West End expansion opens tomorrow (il)
• TNT 11/16/1973 Rhodes plans Mall store (Ernest W. Huhn of Hawthorne, CA, arch.)
• TNT 6/11/1977 New Mall addition approved
• TNT 9/14/1979 It happened! Downtown losing Sears (new Sears, Roebuck & Co. bldg. by John Graham & Co., arch.)
• TNT 8/3/1980 (sketch of proposed Sears)
• TNT 10/2/1985 Tacoma Mall: It's a 20-year success story for Pierce County
• TNT 5/4/1999 p.B9 Tacoma Mall face-lift on horizon
• TNT 5/7/1999 p.A1 New look ahead for "dated" mall; food court, new entrance and floors with spruce up Tacoma Mall (Callison Architecture of Seattle, arch.) (Larry Weeks, project architect) T.Daily Index 5/11/1999 p.1 Tacoma Mall announces major renovation (DPMI of Youngstown, Ohio contr. for remodeling) (sketch)
• TNT 9/11/1999 p.D1 Plaudits for Tacoma Mall's face-lift (Song Pak, project arch.) (interior il)
• TNT 2/26/2000 p.D1 Courting Tacoma Mall shoppers; cafe area crowns remodeling (new crescent-shaped food court to open 4/29/2000)
• TNT 4/27/2000 (Special Renovation Celebration Suppl.) (in, interior il, includes timeline)
• TNT 4/28/2000 p.D1 New food court to open at Mall (interior il)
• TNT 4/29/2000 p.A3 Renovation celebration; history of mall spans 35 years (interior il)
• TNT 9/10/2000 p.B23 Young males fight in Tacoma Mall ...
• TNT 12/28/2000 p.B5 Teen, woman injured in Mall attack
• TNT 10/28/2001 38th Street Grand Opening Celebration (Special Suppl.) (il) T.Daily Index 1/29/2002 p.1 Construction, location changes at Tacoma Mall
• TNT 12/21/2000 p.D1 Tacoma Mall's new manager wants it "fresh and new"
• TNT 11/21/2005 p.A1 Gunman hits six
• TNT 3/23/2006 p.A1 Tacoma Mall plans big makeover; bigger Nordstrom, plus extra 101,500 square feet of retail space ...
• TNT 10/8/2006 p.B1 Mall might house high school (proposed alternative high school)
• TNT 2/9/2007 p.D1 Attention, shoppers: Mall to get new look (former Mervyn's bldg. to be demolished to make way for new Nordstrom's bldg.)
• TNT 5/1/2007 p.D1 "The claw" takes big bite out of old Mervyn's (il of demolition)
• TNT 6/16/2007 p.A1 Mall sewage flows near Wapato Lake
• TNT 9/29/2008 p.A1 Shoppers, this one's for you (interior il of new Nordstrom store)
• TNT 10/4/2008 p.D1 A nod to new Nordstrom (il)
• TNT 2/21/2001 p.A1 Outburst disrupts Tacoma shoppers
• TNT 12/17/2012 p.A1 New stores, changes coming to Tacoma Mall
• TNT 4/13/2019 p.A3 A bit of Tacoma's retail history is coming down (il of Sears store being demolished) Puget Sound Business Journal 1/13/2023 p.8 Apple plans to remodel
• TNT 1/16/2023 p.2A Tacoma Mall news: 2 popular shops set to remodel while a well-known salon plans to move 979.778 M823S p.188 979.7788 R278S p.119 (il)
• Year Built: 1965
• Decade Built: 1960s

Abbreviation Key GTWY - Peninsula Gateway, TDL - Tacoma Daily Ledger, TDN - Tacoma Daily News, TNL - Tacoma News Ledger, TNT - Tacoma News Tribune

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