JCPenney - "West Park Mall" Cape Girardeau, MO
The mall was built in 1981 though a partnership between St. Louis-based May Centers, Inc., and Cape Girardeau-based Drury Development Corp., developer of the Drury Hotel Chain. It featured Famous-Barr and JCPenney as its anchor stores, with original tenants including Hallmark Cards, Foot Locker, Kay-Bee Toys, Claire's, Zales Jewelers, GNC, Waldenbooks, and Lerner New York. An 80,000-square-foot Venture was added as a third anchor in 1984. May Center later became CenterMark, who divested all of their retail properties in the early 90s. Westfield Group aquired the mall from CenterMark in 1993, and renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown West Park in 1998.
The Venture store closed in 1998, the same year the mall announced that they would be building a s126,000 ft2 anchor store at the malls north entrance. The anchor was likely Sears, who later built a Sears Grand store across from the mall. The West Park Mall Venture, along with two stores in Wichita, KS, Northpark Mall in Joplin, MO and one at Kentucky Oaks Mall in nearby Paducah, Kentucky both became Shopko in 1999. Shopko entering the mall brought West Park to 100 percent occupancy for the first time in its history. Shopko closed in 2001 and would sit vacant until Steven & Barry's assumed the space in 2006. The store has been occupied by an Ashley Furniture Homestore since 2018.
Old Navy opened in the mall in 2004 and in 2006, Westfield sold the mall to Centro Watt Barnes & Noble would later open a store at the mall assuming several vacant spaces.
JCPenney - "West Park Mall" Cape Girardeau, MO
The mall was built in 1981 though a partnership between St. Louis-based May Centers, Inc., and Cape Girardeau-based Drury Development Corp., developer of the Drury Hotel Chain. It featured Famous-Barr and JCPenney as its anchor stores, with original tenants including Hallmark Cards, Foot Locker, Kay-Bee Toys, Claire's, Zales Jewelers, GNC, Waldenbooks, and Lerner New York. An 80,000-square-foot Venture was added as a third anchor in 1984. May Center later became CenterMark, who divested all of their retail properties in the early 90s. Westfield Group aquired the mall from CenterMark in 1993, and renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown West Park in 1998.
The Venture store closed in 1998, the same year the mall announced that they would be building a s126,000 ft2 anchor store at the malls north entrance. The anchor was likely Sears, who later built a Sears Grand store across from the mall. The West Park Mall Venture, along with two stores in Wichita, KS, Northpark Mall in Joplin, MO and one at Kentucky Oaks Mall in nearby Paducah, Kentucky both became Shopko in 1999. Shopko entering the mall brought West Park to 100 percent occupancy for the first time in its history. Shopko closed in 2001 and would sit vacant until Steven & Barry's assumed the space in 2006. The store has been occupied by an Ashley Furniture Homestore since 2018.
Old Navy opened in the mall in 2004 and in 2006, Westfield sold the mall to Centro Watt Barnes & Noble would later open a store at the mall assuming several vacant spaces.