Cache Valley Mall is a shopping mall located in

Logan, Utah Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census recorded the population was 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin ...

that opened in 1976. The mall has no anchors, with three vacant anchors last occupied by C-A-L Ranch,

Herberger's G. R. Herberger Inc. is a department store chain founded in 1927 with locations throughout the Midwestern United States. The chain was sold in the late 1990s amid growing consolidation in the department store industry, while continuing to operate ...

and

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. The mall is owned by

Namdar Realty Group Namdar Realty Group is an American shopping mall investment company based in Great Neck, New York. They primarily purchase shopping malls with partner Mason Asset Management. Namdar and Mason are both family owned, and as of 2021, own over 400 p ...

History

The mall was in planning as early as 1972, when the Logan City Commission refused to rezone land for the mall, leading to the developers bringing a lawsuit against the commission. Plans re-emerged in 1974, with developers John Price Associates announcing it as a 300,000 square foot mall to include 3 department store anchors, a supermarket, a bank, and "dozens" of small businesses, with an opening date sometime in 1976. Construction had begun by 1975, with anchors

ZCMI Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (typically referred to as 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 De ...

, and Ernst-Malmo (later specified as Ernst Home Center) announced at this time. An opening of late July 1976 was announced by February that year, with additional tenants including Logan Savings and Loan,

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, and J.B.'s Big Boy. A 14-year-old girl was shot in the chest on the mall property on July 19, 1976, before recovering. The Ernst Home Center opened for business before the mall on July 20, 1976. The mall proper opened on July 29, 1976, with anchors Ernst Home Center (37,000 sq ft), ZCMI (61,000 sq ft), and JCPenney (47,000 sq ft) along with a supermarket, a drug store, a

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, and an outparcel 3-screen Mann Theatre. In 1988, the

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(formerly Ernst Home Center) at the mall was bought by and converted to

Lamonts Lamonts was a chain of department stores founded in Seattle, Washington. The chain was started in 1970 when Pay 'n Save renamed its suburban branches of Rhodes, a department store chain the company acquired in 1965. Lamonts remained a division o ...

. The Cache Valley 3 Theatre was converted to a

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in 1995. ZCMI was sold to

The May Department Stores Company The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. After many ch ...

in 1999, with the store at the mall being sold to

Dillard's Dillard's, Inc. is an upscale American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The ...

in 2001. Lamonts was sold to

Gottschalks Gottschalks (former NYSE ticker symbol GOT) was a middle-tier American department store that operated 58 department stores and three specialty apparel stores in six western states (California, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada); some ...

in 2000, before closing in 2001. The store was later replaced by Dillard's Home Store. The Cache Valley 3 Theatre was converted to its final operator, Westates Theatres, in February 2002, before closing on October 18, 2007. In January 2013 it was announced that both Dillard's locations would close, citing under-performance.

opened at the mall in early 2014, their first location in Utah, in the former Dillard's space. C-A-L Ranch opened at the mall in the former Dillard's Home Store space in 2015. The mall was sold from

Rouse Properties Rouse Properties was a real estate investment trust headquartered in New York City. The company owned 35 shopping malls in 22 states encompassing approximately 24.5 million square feet of retail space. History In 2011, General Growth Properties a ...

in December 2017. Herberger's closed at the mall in 2018, in a round of 42 store closures prior to bankruptcy later that year. In 2019, the former Cache Valley Mall 3 Theatres building underwent heavy renovations to become two restaurants and an event center, with a projected opening date of Spring 2020. On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced that it would be closing as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide. The store closed on October 18, 2020. On January 22, 2021, it was announced that C-A-L Ranch would be relocating to the former

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space in North Logan in Spring 2021 which will leave the mall with no anchors left.

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