Cottonwood Mall (Holladay, Utah)
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Cottonwood Mall was an enclosed
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in
Holladay, Utah Holladay is a city in central Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area and abuts the Wasatch National Forest. The population was 31,965 at the 2020 census, a significant incr ...
, a suburb of
Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Salt ...
, United States. It was the first large indoor shopping mall in the state. It was built and owned until 1985 by Horman construction (Sydney Horman Sr. CEO), when it was sold to John Price and Associates, then sold again later to General Growth Properties.


History

The mall opened in 1962 with
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, which became
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in 2001 and
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in 2006. At the other end of the mall was a
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. Other early tenants included an
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supermarket and Woolworth, which was the last operational store in the state in 1993. The mall parking lot was used as a park and ride lot during the
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. Starting in the early 2000s, Cottonwood Mall suffered high vacancy rates. By 2004, the mall was approximately 25 percent vacant.


Future

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first announced plans to redevelop the mall in July 2007. A month later, the Holladay city council deemed the shopping mall blighted. General Growth tore down the mall in mid-2008 as the beginning of redevelopment. Original redevelopment plans called for a
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to be built around the existing Macy's store. A
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restaurant in the parking lot closed in March 2009. Redevelopment of the mall halted in 2009 when General Growth Properties filed for bankruptcy. GGP was reformed after the bankruptcy and split into two entities.
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, one of the entities, took over the redevelopment of the mall. In 2014, rumors surfaced that Smith's Food and Drug would be opening a location on the property with a tentative opening in late 2016. In 2017, Macy's announced that they would be closing the store located on the Cottonwood Mall property as part of a plan to restructure their U.S. operations. There are still several businesses located nearby and the area is still known as the Cottonwood or Cottonwood Creekside area. In 2023, a new development will be ready for occupancy. It will include a theater, retail, parking garages, multi-family residential, town homes, and single family homes.


References

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