# Totem Lake Mall

Kirkland, WA · mall · tier: curated · Retrofit Atlas record `m-c014116418` · release 2026-10-22

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/wa/kirkland-totem-lake-mall/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-c014116418.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-c014116418.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/m-c014116418

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | built | reported · derived from authors' map (retrofit year present) |
| Strategy | redevelop, regreen | reported · authors' map |
| New use | retail | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| What is there now | • Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets • Partial regreening: streetscaping | reported · authors' map |
| Opened | 1973 | reported · Wikidata |
| Closed | 2016 | reported · web research agent |
| Retrofit year | 2015 | reported · authors' map |
| GLA (sq ft) | 360000 | reported · web research agent |
| Original developer | Puget Sound Land Company | reported · web research agent |
| Redeveloper | Village At Totem Lake, LLC | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **enclosed**: “The center of Totem Lake Mall consisted of an enclosed shopping mall, and an adjacent strip mall.” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b
- **street_grid_added**: “Redevelopment: mixed use, new streets” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

## Anchors

Lamonts, Ernst Home & Nursery, Schuck's Auto Supply, Pay 'n Save Drug store, Sportsland, Totem Lake Cinemas

## Parties

- Village At Totem Lake, LLC — owner (from text) (2015–)

## Timeline

- 1973: Opened (Wikidata)
- 2015: Retrofit: redevelop, regreen
- 2015: Purchase of the mall
- 2016: Announcement of redevelopment

## Deals and debt

- 2015 sale:  Village At Totem Lake, LLC   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_at_Totem_Lake

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

The Village at Totem Lake, formerly Totem Lake Mall, is a shopping center in Kirkland, Washington, United States. The center of Totem Lake Mall consisted of an enclosed shopping mall, and an adjacent strip mall. Collectively, the two centers were sometimes referred to as "Totem Lake Malls". Following the redevelopment of major regional malls beginning in the 1980s, Totem Lake Mall went into steady decline, losing most of its major tenants. The majority of these tenants were only accessible on the outside, shying away from the interior mall concept popular throughout the 1960s-1990s. Multiple redevelopments for the property were proposed. Village At Totem Lake, LLC purchased the mall in 2015 and in 2016 announced it would be redeveloped and reopened as The Village at Totem Lake.

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

## Sources

- Timeline — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_at_Totem_Lake
- Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) — https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=ce33ab2637374aab862b8a23847f620f (2021-01-20)

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Totem Lake Mall, Kirkland, WA." Record m-c014116418, release 2026-10-22, tier curated. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/wa/kirkland-totem-lake-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-22).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_kirklandtotemlakemall,
  title = {Totem Lake Mall, Kirkland, WA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/wa/kirkland-totem-lake-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-c014116418, release 2026-10-22, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-22}
}
```

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.