Glimcher Realty Trust began construction on Polaris Fashion Place in June 2000. The mall opened in November 2001 with 146 inline tenants. The developers chose to include several tenants which were lacking in the market, The other three anchors were
JCPenney,
Sears and
Lazarus; all three relocated from
Northland Mall, which closed on October 31, 2002 following the loss of its remaining inline tenants and the Northland Mall was demolished in February 2004. In 2003, the Lazarus store was dual-branded as Lazarus-
Macy's, and then to just Macy's in 2005. After the 2006 acquisition by Federated Stores (now
Macy's, Inc.) of Kaufmann's parent company,
May Department Stores Company, the Kaufmann's store was shuttered and sold to Glimcher for redevelopment. In 2007, the store was demolished for an outdoor expansion comprising
Barnes & Noble,
Forever 21 and several restaurants, including
Benihana,
The Cheesecake Factory and
Dave & Buster's. This concourse opened in 2008. Lord & Taylor was repositioned and shuttered entirely in 2004. It was replaced with
Von Maur, whose location at the mall is also the first in the state. On February 22, 2012,
Sears Holdings Corporation announced it would be closing all 9 of its
Great Indoors. It was replaced by a dual-branded
Dick's Sporting Goods and
Field & Stream (later Public Lands) in 2015. In 2025, both stores would close to make way for a new concept under the same ownership called "Dick's House of Sport". In 2019, Sears closed. In 2021, it was replaced with Fieldhouse USA, a multi-discipline indoor sports facility. In March 2021, the mall saw two separate shooting incidents within the interior corridors, on March 3 and 15. These were the first such incidents in the mall's history. In February 2026, it was announced that the Saks Fifth Avenue anchor store would close by April 2026. ==References==