Westdale Mall
Westdale Mall in 2006
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| Location | Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States |
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| Opening date | October 4, 1979 |
| Closing date | March 31, 2014 |
| Developer | The Hahn Company |
| Management | Frew Development Group |
| Owner | A. Shapiro, LLC |
| No. of stores and services | 1 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 (+2 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 854,000 ft² (79,000 m²) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 5,500 spaces |
| Website | www.shopwestdale.com |
Coordinates: 41°57′07″N 91°43′12″W / 41.952°N 91.720°W
Westdale Mall was an enclosed super-regional shopping mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 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. In recent years, Westdale has taken on 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.
Plans for Westdale Mall were first announced on March 29, 1972. Original plans called for a 560,000-square-foot (52,000 m2) mall with two or three anchor stores and 30 to 50 smaller stores on 66 acres (270,000 m2) of land. Later that year, developer Ernest W. Hahn of The Hahn Company acquired the mall's property from Midwest Development of Cedar Rapids and Dial Realty of Omaha, Nebraska. In 1974, Hahn asked the Cedar Rapids City Council to rezone an additional 21 acres (85,000 m2) of land from residential to commercial use. An organization of citizens known as "Taxpayers for Sensible Planning" opposed the rezoning, claiming that construction of a larger mall would have a severe impact on existing businesses in the Cedar Rapids area. Despite the opposition, the City Council approved the rezoning by a 4-1 vote on May 22, 1974. The recession of 1974 delayed the start of construction until May 1976 and a seven-week electricians' strike delayed the mall's opening to October 4, 1979.
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