Willamette Town Center
Willamette Town Center, formerly Lancaster Mall, is an exterior entrance shopping center located in Salem, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1971, the main part of the center has of space. The regional mall is located on Lancaster Drive and is bordered on the West by Interstate 5 in Oregon, Interstate 5, making Willamette Town Center a retail hub for the city of Salem. History Lancaster Mall began in 1968 when Thrifty PayLess built a small enclosed mall in Salem, Oregon, featuring a PayLess drug store and Albertsons supermarket. Two years later, the rest of the mall was built. Montgomery Ward then moved from downtown Salem to the newly renovated mall. In 1972, the mall was to be one of the first locations in Oregon for an automated teller machine not located at a bank branch, which created controversy at the time. About 1976, the Taco Time chain experimented with selling alcoholic beverages at their Lancaster location. A 17-year-old woman was kidnapped from Lancaster Mall in 1977, ...
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Salem, Oregon
Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk County, Oregon, Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem, Salem, Oregon, West Salem is in Polk County. Salem was founded in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857. Salem had a population of 174,365 in 2019, making it the third-largest city in the state after Portland, Oregon, Portland and Eugene, Oregon, Eugene. Salem is the principal city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a United States metropolitan area, metropolitan area that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined population of 390,738 at the 2010 census. A 2019 estimate placed the metropolitan population at 400,408, the state's second largest. This area is, in ...
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