Pueblo Mall is a

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, U.S. Opened in 1976, the mall features Dillard's and J. C. Penney as its anchor stores. Other major tenants of the mall include

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, and Altitude Trampoline Park. The mall is managed and owned by Centennial Real Estate.

History

Pueblo Mall opened in 1976. Developed by

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, it originally featured

Montgomery Ward Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later also a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The curren ...

The Denver Dry Goods Company The Denver Dry Goods Company, also known as "The Denver", is a defunct department store which was established in Denver, Colorado, USA, in 1879 by Michael J. McNamara and L.H. Flanders as M.J. McNamara & Company and later The McNamara Dry Goods C ...

Joslins Joslins Department Store began as J. Joslins Dry Goods Store, founded by John Jay Joslin in 1873; It was a direct competitor to The Denver Dry Goods Company which commenced operations in 1888. The downtown Joslins building in Denver, Colorado, ...

, and J. C. Penney as its anchor stores. Joslins replaced an existing store in downtown Pueblo. The Denver Dry Goods went out of business in 1987 and sold its store to Mervyn's. In 1998, the entire Joslins chain was sold to Dillard's. Montgomery Ward went out of business in 2001 and became

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, which relocated from Midtown Shopping Center. After Mervyn's closed all of its Colorado locations in 2005, a portion of its store became

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. As that chain did not use the entirety of the building, the back portion remained vacant until 2014, when

occupied the remaining space. Sports Authority went out of business in 2016 and was replaced in 2019 by a trampoline park called Altitude Trampoline Park. Sears closed in 2019 as well. In 2017, an article in ''

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'' acknowledged Pueblo Mall as an example of a smaller shopping mall that has maintained success even in the wake of

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, noting the variety of stores, the significant size of the market area, and the high median income surrounding the city of Pueblo.

References

External links

Official website
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