Har Mar Mall

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Har Mar Mall is a moderately-sized shopping mall located in Roseville, Minnesota a suburb of Saint Paul.

Har Mar Mall derives its name from the original owners, Harold and Marie Slawik. The mall was built in 1961 and was designed by Twin Cities architect Willard Thorson, who also designed Apache Plaza in nearby St. Anthony. (Also opened in 1961, Apache Plaza was razed in 2004.) It underwent major additions to the mall in 1971 (addition of a new strip mall style wing), and major renovations in the mid-1990s. The mall underwent another major renovation after being heavily damaged in a tornado on 14 June 1981 [1]. Until the mid-1990s, the mall was in serious decline, with decreasing numbers of visitors and increasing vacancy. However, the combination of a series of interior renovations, renovations to the movie theaters, and the opening of a new Barnes and Noble bookstore (as well as the addition of some other mid-range department stores) resulted in a huge resurgence in popularity for the mall as a destination for bargain shopping. With the 2006 construction at nearby Rosedale Center, which includes the addition of a multiplex, Har Mar will be losing its own theater complex. The shopping mall maintains a reputation for being deliberately downscale, small and unpretentious (in contrast to the much larger and newer Rosedale Center shopping mall nearby).

In addition to its rent-paying, regular tenants, Har Mar draws great crowds for its civic marketplace activities, which include craft fairs, pet shows and specialty exhibitors who line the hallways of the Mall.

Current stores include

Barnes and Noble
An 11 screen movie theater (actually divided into two segments with three large screens and eight smaller ones). This theater closed on December 8,2006, to be replaced by a larger theater in an expansion to Rosedale Center[2].
Buffalo Wild Wings
TJMaxx
Cub Foods
Marshalls
Har Mar Pet Shop
Land's End Outlet
Northwestern Bookstore