The Empire Mall

Shopping mall in South Dakota, United States

The Empire Mall

Location| Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Coordinates| 43°30′38″N 96°46′33″W﻿ / ﻿43.51058°N 96.77575°W﻿ / 43.51058; -96.77575
Opening date| 1975[1]
Previous names| Sioux Empire Plaza
Developer| General Growth Development Corp.[2]
Management| Dan Gies[3]
Owner| Simon Property Group
Architect| Derwood Quade[2]
No. of stores and services| 140 (in 2017)[1]
No. of anchor tenants| 5 (4 open, 1 vacant)[4]
Total retail floor area| 1,027,280 square feet (95,437 m2)[5]
No. of floors| 1
Public transit access|  Sioux Area Metro
Website| simon.com/mall/the-empire-mall

The Empire Mall is a shopping mall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States.[1] The anchor stores are Dillard's, Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and JCPenney. The mall is owned by Simon Property Group.

## History

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Originally developed in 1974-75 by Des Moines-based General Growth Development Corp., it opened as the Sioux Empire Plaza.[2] It was sold to the IBM Pension Fund in 1985 while General Growth continued to manage the property.[6] In 1998, it was acquired by a joint venture of The Macerich Company and Simon Property Group, with Macerich assuming the role of managing partner.[7] In 2012, Simon Property Group became the sole owner of the mall. In 2018, Simon Property Group, owner of the mall, posted a document about plans for the mall after losing two tenants.[8]

In 1978 the mall underwent its first major expansion, with the addition of Dayton's (later Marshall Field's, now Macy's) and 22 other specialty stores.[9]

In 2016, Ron Soucie replaced Dennis Gilliam as manager.[10] In 2017, Dan Gies replaced Ron Soucie.[1]

Younkers closed on August 29, 2018, after its parent company, The Bon-Ton Stores, went out of business.[11]

Sears closed in September 2018.[4] The vacant Sears store was occupied by a temporary Camping World store from November 2018 to April 2019.[12]

On December 3, 2018, Dillard's announced it would open in the vacant Younkers anchor store, adding 40,000 square feet (3,700 square meters) of space to the existing 100,000 square feet (9,300 square meters) structure.[3] Dillard’s opened in March 2024.

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "New Empire Mall manager Dan Gies: Mall seeks to 'deepen' position with local entrepreneurs". Argus Leader. July 25, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
2. ^ a b c Minnesota Modern Registry, Docomomo US MN, accessed May 18, 2022.
3. ^ a b "Dillard's department store coming to Sioux Falls". SiouxFalls.Business. December 3, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
4. ^ a b Fugleberg, Jeremy (May 31, 2018). "The Empire Mall is losing another anchor store". Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
5. ^ "Leasing & Advertising at The Empire Mall, a SIMON Center". business.simon.com. Retrieved December 25, 2022.
6. ^ https://huronhistory.com/south-dakota-articles [dead link]
7. ^ "DeBartolo, Macerich buy 12 regional malls". Daily News Record. January 2, 1998. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2008.
8. ^ "Empire Mall leasing document drops clues on future of Sears, Younkers sites". Argus Leader. August 31, 2018. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
9. ^ "Looking Back: Empire Mall started big and kept growing".
10. ^ "The Empire Mall hires new manager". Argus Leader. October 4, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
11. ^ Raposa, Megan (April 6, 2018). "Younkers in The Empire Mall to close, 100+ expected to lose jobs". Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
12. ^ "Camping World to temporarily use Sears space". SiouxFalls.Business. November 23, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2020.

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