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Futures sold the mall on March 30, 2006 to "VF Partners", a partnership between Commercial Horizons, Rollie Winter and Associates, and Bomier, for $ 2.3 million. "VF Partners" has been redeveloping the 26-acre, Valley Fair site since 2006. They have demolished most of the property. Because the
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Menasha, Wisconsin until the land on which it stood was annexed to Appleton. The mall was built by Hamilton Construction Company under the name Hoffman Shopping Centers, Inc. Designed by George Narovec of Appleton, it
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Department Store section and built a new Copps
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YouthFutures was a non-profit, Christian-oriented organization created in 2002. Buying out the mall, it started to re-tenant a third time, removing all the national chains that were left, and refocusing on local tenants that were more family-oriented in nature. The former
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that opened on March 10, 1955. This enclosed mall was the first weather-protected one to ever be built within the United States, and was the first to ever open. Demolition of parts of the shopping center began on August 8, 2007.
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Department Store/Supermarket combo, one of four built north of
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discount store. With this, the mall was fully completed by 1956. It remained relatively unchanged through 1976, when the Grant's anchor ceased with the rest of the entire chain.
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