Valley West Mall
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Valley West Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall in West Des Moines, Iowa. The mall's only anchor store is JCPenney. There are two vacant anchor stores that were once Younkers and Von Maur
Sign entrance to Valley West Mall, 1929
Younkers
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Younkers Inc. is an American online retailer and former department store chain founded as a family-run dry goods business in 1856 in Keokuk, Iowa. The retailer had evolved over more than 150 years to
Valley West Mall
…super-regional shopping mall in West Des Moines, Iowa. The mall's only anchor store is JCPenney. There are two vacant anchor stores that were once Younkers and Von Maur. Frederick Watson, a developer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, first unveiled plans for Valley West Mall in 1971. The Meredith Corporation…
Exterior of Younkers in Traverse City, Michigan, located at the Cherryland Center, in a former H. C. Prange Co. The interior of this store was never remodeled, and retained 1970's style decor until it closed in August 2018.
The original Younkers store in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The building was vacated when the store closed on August 12, 2005. The eastern building was destroyed by fire in the early hours of March 29, 2014.
A Younkers in Marquette, Michigan which was converted from H.C. Prange
Exterior of a Younkers store in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a former H. C. Prange Co., in 2006, which was converted into Boston Store in 2008.