The Grand Teton Mall is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

located in

Idaho Falls, Idaho Idaho Falls is the fourth most populous city in Idaho and the county seat of Bonneville County. It is the state's most populous city outside the Boise metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of Idaho Falls was 64,818.2020 Cen ...

, that opened in 1984. The anchor tenants are Alturas Preparatory Academy,

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, and

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History

Grand Teton Mall opened in 1984 with

The Bon Marché The Bon Marché (colloquially The Bon) was an American department store chain founded in 1890 by married couple Edward and Josephine Nordhoff. It was based Seattle, Washington, and served working-class families in the Northwestern United Stat ...

, and

ZCMI Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) was an American department store chain. It was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 9, 1868, by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First Department Store." Histor ...

. A

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store was added a short time after, relocating from the now-defunct Country Club Shopping Center. In 2001, ZCMI was rebranded as

following the chain's acquisition of four stores in Idaho and Utah. In 2005, a remodel of the mall added a new mall entrance and a

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store which relocated from a nearby shopping center. In 2005, The Bon Marché was rebranded as

Macy's Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34 ...

. On November 8, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 40 stores nationwide. The store closed on January 20, 2019. On January 5, 2021, it was announced that

would be closing as part of a plan to close 46 stores nationwide. It closed in March 2021. In 2021, a prep school was announced to be occupying the space of the former

, with construction starting soon after. The new school, Alturas Preparatory Academy, opened in August 2021. On February 3, 2022,

announced it would be occupying the former

, which would involve the demolition and replacement of the entrances. It opened on August 12, 2022.

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External links

* Brookfield Properties Shopping malls in Idaho Shopping malls established in 1984 Buildings and structures in Idaho Falls, Idaho {{US-mall-stub