# Westdale Town Center

Cedar Rapids, IA · mall · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `m-7bc7e792bc` · release 2026-10-20

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ia/cedar-rapids-westdale-town-center/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-7bc7e792bc.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-7bc7e792bc.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/m-7bc7e792bc

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | unknown | reported · Wikipedia |
| Opened | 1979 | reported · Wikipedia |
| GLA (sq ft) | 854000 | reported · Esri 2014 layer |
| Stores at peak | 120 | reported · Esri 2014 layer |

## Anchors

JCPenney, Von Maur, Younkers

## Timeline

- 1979: Opened (Wikidata)

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

Westdale Town Center, formerly Westdale Mall is a formerly enclosed super-regional shopping mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The two-level mall on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids is one of the city's two enclosed malls, along with Lindale Mall on the city's northeast side. By 2012, Westdale displayed some characteristics of a dead mall as two of its four anchor stores and an estimated 70 percent of inline stores have been vacated as of January 2013. At the beginning of 2013, local investor group A. Shapiro LLC purchased Westdale Mall. In January 2013, Frew Development Group, LLC leased the mall and its property from A. Shapiro, LLC. Frew Development is investing $90 million into the redevelopment of the mall, converting it to an open air destination and re-branding it as Westdale Town Center. In 2020, Frew Development Group, LLC acquired the ground lease from A. Shapiro, LLC and today is the sole owner of Westdale Town Center. The mall's anchor stores are JCPenney, Ross Dress for Less, U-Haul, Burlington, and PetSmart. Since 2018, Frew has developed a Tru by Hilton hotel, a Home2 by Hilton, a Boulder Tap House restaurant, and a US Veteran's Medical Clinic.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westdale_Town_Center

## Sources

- Esri StoryMaps: Closed_US_Malls feature layer (2014) — https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6869fc5bfb3f4757954ef7a9e9ccbebf (2014-10-02)
- Wikipedia: Westdale Town Center — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westdale_Town_Center (2026-09-01)

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Westdale Town Center, Cedar Rapids, IA." Record m-7bc7e792bc, release 2026-10-20, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ia/cedar-rapids-westdale-town-center/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_cedarrapidswestdaletowncenter,
  title = {Westdale Town Center, Cedar Rapids, IA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ia/cedar-rapids-westdale-town-center/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-7bc7e792bc, release 2026-10-20, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.