Mall 205 was an enclosed

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

located at the junction of Interstate 205 and S.E. Washington Street in

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populou ...

's Hazelwood neighborhood, in the United States. The mall features over 20 stores and a

food court A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner. ...

; anchor stores include

The Home Depot The Home Depot, Inc., is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot is the largest home improvement r ...

, Oregon DMV,

Target Target may refer to: Physical items * Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports ** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports ** Aiming point, in field artillery, fi ...

, Arch Fitters and

24 Hour Fitness 24 Hour Fitness is a privately owned and operated fitness center chain headquartered in Carlsbad, California. It is the second largest fitness chain in the United States based on revenue after LA Fitness, and the fourth in number of clubs (behi ...

. The mall's two-story Target store is the largest Target in the state of Oregon. Mall 205 was acquired and renovated in 2001 by CenterCal properties.

History

The site was formerly the location of Morningside Hospital, which closed in 1968. New York-based developer Lenrich Associates announced plans for "Mall 205", an enclosed shopping center with 50 stores that would cost $10 million, in March 1969 and construction began on June 12, 1969. It opened in September 1970 with U.S. General at first, then

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 ...

and

White Front White Front was a chain of discount department stores in California and the western United States from 1959 through the mid-1970s. The stores were noted for the architecture of their store fronts which was an enormous, sweeping archway with the st ...

as its anchor stores. White Front closed in June 1974Sorenson, Donald J. (February 22, 1978). "Emporium plans mall opening" (at Mall 205). ''The Oregonian'', p. F3. and was replaced with mall space, but in 1978

Emporium Emporium may refer to: Historical * Emporium (antiquity), a trading post, factory, or market of Classical antiquity * Emporium (early medieval), a 6th- to 9th-century trading settlement in Northwestern Europe * Emporium (Italy), an ancient town ...

and

Pay Less Drug Stores Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Inc. was a pharmacy holding company that owned the Thrifty Drugs and PayLess Drug Stores chains in the western United States. The combined company was formed in April 1994 when Los Angeles-based TCH Corporation, the pa ...

opened new stores in the former White Front space. Otherwise, the mall remained mostly unchanged throughout the 1990s, despite competition from Clackamas Town Center, a larger mall which opened just a few miles away in 1981. A multi-screen

movie theater A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a ...

and

were originally planned for inclusion in a 1996 expansion of Mall 205. While the movie theater never came to fruition, a food court was added in 2003. In early 2001, Montgomery Ward and Emporium both closed the last of their stores, leaving both of the anchor spaces vacant at Mall 205. As a result, many inline tenants began to leave the mall. Center Oak Properties of

Gresham, Oregon Gresham ( ) is a city located in Multnomah County, Oregon, in the United States of America, immediately east of Portland, Oregon. It is considered a suburb within the Greater Portland Metropolitan area. Though it began as a settlement in the mid ...

(now known as CenterCal Properties) acquired the mall the same year and began a $20 million renovation, adding a two-level Target store on the site of the former Montgomery Ward, and

the Home Depot The Home Depot, Inc., is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot is the largest home improvement r ...

opened on the site of the former Emporium. Center Oak also added many other tenants to the mall, including Arch Fitters,

Bed Bath & Beyond Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is an American chain of domestic merchandise retail stores. The chain operates many stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Bed Bath & Beyond was founded in 1971. It is counted among the Fortune 5 ...

Circuit City Circuit City is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. After m ...

, and

Famous Footwear Famous Footwear is a nationwide chain of retail stores in the United States dealing in branded footwear, generally at prices discounted from manufacturer's suggested prices. The chain is a division of the St. Louis-based Caleres and had more ...

. The center was sold again in July 2014 to Gerrity in a $76.5 million deal that included the neighboring Plaza 205. In January, 2022, the mall was sold to Rhino Investments Group at a price of $43.2 million. This includes the adjacent Plaza 205. Target owns their store and parking lot and was not part of the sale. By March 31, 2022, both Target and Home Depot had walled off their interior mall entrances, and the last two interior mall tenants had closed their stores inside the mall to make way for redevelopment. Two proposed new stores are

Hobby Lobby Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., formerly Hobby Lobby Creative Centers, is an American retail company. It owns a chain of arts and crafts stores with a volume of over $5 billion in 2018. The chain has 969 stores in 47 US states. Hobby Lobby is owned b ...

and Burlington.

List of tenants

Anchor tenant In retail, an "anchor tenant", sometimes called an "anchor store", "draw tenant", or "key tenant", is a considerably larger tenant in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain. They are typically located at the ends of malls. W ...

s: * 24 Hour Fitness * Oregon DMV *

References

External links

* {{Shopping malls in Oregon 1970 establishments in Oregon Defunct shopping malls in the United States Shopping centers in Portland, Oregon Shopping malls established in 1970 Victor Gruen buildings

History

List of tenants

See also

References

External links