Everett Mall is a regional shopping center in southern Everett, Washington, in Snohomish County. It sits in the Twin Creeks neighborhood along Everett Mall Way, which is part of State Route 99.
The mall occupies a 62-acre site bordered by West Mall Drive, 100th Street Southeast, and I-5. It lies less than one mile south of the Broadway Interchange, where I-5, SR 99, SR 526, and SR 527 meet.
The property includes 673,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor retail space. It serves as a main shopping area for Everett and nearby Snohomish County communities and a transit hub for several bus routes.
The mall opened in October 1974. It is now being fully redeveloped by Brixton Capital into a new project called The Hub @ Everett. Plans include a 68,000-square-foot Topgolf venue as the main entertainment anchor.
Everett Mall's Troubled Beginnings
On a morning in February 1969, a Sears store opened on a 60-acre site in south Everett, Washington.
It sat along a road that would later be named Everett Mall Way, between Interstate 5 and the old State Route 99.
The store's manager, Robert Freidenrich, had persuaded Sears to leave its 40-year location on Colby Street in downtown Everett and move south.
The new building covered 114,400 square feet. It included 50 departments, a 14-bay auto repair center, an outdoor garden area, a tailor shop, and a coffee shop with 40 seats.
At the time, no one could have expected how difficult the next five years would be.
The developers - Norman L. Iverson & Associates of Tacoma and Earl Cohen & Associates of Beverly Hills - planned to build a fully enclosed shopping mall around the Sears store.
A second major tenant, White Front, a discount chain from California, opened on May 13, 1971.
It was the company's fifth location in the Puget Sound area. Work had already begun on the enclosed mall that would connect the two stores.
Then Boeing went into a sharp downturn. Large layoffs hit the Everett-Seattle area in 1971 and 1972, which weakened spending and reduced investor interest.
Construction slowed and then stopped. In July 1972, Hanson Development Company of Hackensack, New Jersey, bought the unfinished project and said it would complete it.
Before that could happen, White Front went bankrupt. Its Everett store closed in 1974, becoming the chain's last location in Washington state.
Everett Mall Opens Half Full
The enclosed Everett Mall opened in October 1974 with one anchor tenant and roughly half of its retail space occupied. Large portions of the building remained unfinished, hidden behind canvas curtains.
Teenagers sometimes ran through openings in the fabric, and shoppers rarely had trouble finding parking close to the entrance. Inside, seating areas were often empty.
The Everett Mall Cinemas I, II, and III had already opened eight months earlier, on February 13, 1974.
The theater debuted with The Sting, Serpico, and American Graffiti, and was promoted as Washington's first indoor triple-auditorium cinema.
With 1,300 seats, it was one of the mall's few active attractions.
Hanson's subsidiary, Roebling Management Company, did little to promote the mall, and the property felt incomplete, as though development had stalled before it was finished.
In 1976, the former White Front space was sold to The Bon Marche, which planned to move its downtown Everett store into the mall.
Its opening was scheduled for February 25, 1977. That announcement quickly attracted new tenants, and lease activity increased soon after.
For a little over two years, the mall had operated with the feel of a largely empty complex, until a single anchor commitment began to change its outlook.
The Bon Marché, Frederick & Nelson, and the South Wing
The Bon Marche's arrival triggered the construction of a new south wing. Work began in the fall of 1979, and the addition opened on August 1, 1980, fully leased.
The centerpiece was a two-story, 120,000-square-foot Frederick & Nelson department store - the 15th location of the Marshall Field subsidiary - designed by Beverly Hills architects Martinez, Takeda & Hahn.
The addition also brought a 39,000-square-foot Payless Drug store and 52,400 square feet of mall shops. The wing cost $20 million to build.
A second triplex cinema had opened west of Sears, also operated by General Cinema Corporation of Boston; construction on it had started in August 1977.
The mall stabilized through the 1980s, adding a food court expansion by 1987. Frederick & Nelson became one of those remembered retail institutions - locals spoke of its Frango Restaurant years later.
It lasted until 1991, when the chain declared bankruptcy and closed the Everett store on September 22.
California-based Mervyn's purchased the lease, remodeled through the legal aftermath of the bankruptcy, and opened on July 19, 1992.
Everett Mall's Financial Crisis and Ownership Change
The late 1990s were rough in ways the mall's exterior never fully showed.
Hampshire Management Company submitted plans in 1998 for an expansion that would have rivaled Alderwood Mall in size - 275,000 square feet of new retail, a hotel, a multiplex cinema, and multiple restaurants.
The original proposal did not move forward.
Titanic Associates of Morristown, New Jersey, held ownership and defaulted on a loan. In fall 2000, Snohomish County Superior Court placed the mall into receivership.
By 2001, Titanic had accumulated $61 million in debt and deeded the property to the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
Equitable hired Madison Marquette to manage the mall and direct a fresh expansion push.
In June 2004, Equitable sold the mall for $50.2 million to Steadfast Commercial Properties of Newport Beach, California.
Steadfast replaced Madison Marquette and took over the expansion plans. By 2012, Steadfast had defaulted on a $98 million loan from the Royal Bank of Canada, taken in 2007.
Canyon Partners, a Los Angeles investment group, joined ownership to recapitalize the property, with Steadfast retaining two-thirds.
The Steadfast Makeover and a 16-Screen Theater
Steadfast put more than $30 million into the property after the 2004 purchase. The project added Everett Village, a power center along the west side of the mall.
It overhauled the main mall's interior with warm earth tones, wood, and rock meant to echo Snohomish County's quarry and lumber heritage.
Best Buy, PetSmart, Old Navy, Borders Books, and Bed Bath & Beyond all came in during this period.
The entertainment anchor arrived on July 14, 2006: a 70,000-square-foot Regal Cinemas with 16 screens, replacing the old triplex and a nine-screen theater two blocks west.
That second theater had opened on April 23, 1993, under Act III Cinemas, which Regal acquired in 1998.
AMC had briefly held the original triplex through its purchase of General Cinema in 2002 but backed out in January 2003.
The Village sold for $21.7 million to SJ Realty Investments of Ohio in 2007, then $22.5 million to Stockbridge Capital Group in 2015, and then $24.85 million to Argonaut Investments in 2018.
Mervyn's had closed in late 2006; Steve & Barry's moved into part of the space in June 2007, declared bankruptcy, and closed in 2009.
Burlington Coat Factory opened in its place on September 20, 2013.
Anchors Gone, Redevelopment Begins
Macy's - which had been The Bon Marche and before that the White Front space - closed its Everett store in 2017. Floor & Decor took over the building the following year.
In October 2017, Brixton Capital, an affiliate of Brutten Global, purchased the main mall for an undisclosed price, with JLL taking over leasing and management.
The sale covered 491,000 square feet and excluded the former Macy's building and Everett Village.
Sears closed in December 2019, ending roughly 50 years on the site.
Party City, which had arrived after Canyon Partners helped stabilize the mall, first filed for bankruptcy in January 2023, then filed again in December 2024 and began winding down its U.S. stores by early 2025.
Bed Bath & Beyond shut its Everett Village location at the end of 2020. Famous Dave's closed on June 1, 2022.
Brixton announced in August 2022 that it would demolish the mall's central portion, remove the food court, and cut overall space by 20 percent.
Demolition and reconstruction began in early 2023. On January 16, 2025, a mobile crane collapsed onto the roof during exterior wall demolition, injuring two construction workers.
Ulta Beauty moved into the rebuilt former Sears space in late February 2024. Trader Joe's opened there on March 8, 2024, at 1302 SE Everett Mall Way, replacing its cramped location two blocks away.
Topgolf, Mall Station, and The Hub @ Everett
The redevelopment took a clearer shape in March 2024. Everett mayor Cassie Franklin announced the new name: The Hub @ Everett. A month later, she said that Topgolf was in negotiations to be part of the project.
Brixton Capital followed with plans for a three-story building, 68,000 square feet in size, designed to include a restaurant, bar, and event space.
The location chosen for it was the existing Everett Transit Mall Station, set between Interstate 5 and the Regal Theater.
That meant the station had to move. On March 12, 2025, the Everett City Council approved a $2 million contract to shift it about 500 feet west.
The city paid $1.8 million, while Brixton added $200,000. The rebuilt station opened on December 22, 2025.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on February 13, 2026, after delays caused by regional flooding.
Topgolf's permits had already been approved in January 2025, though no opening date had been set.
Changes were happening elsewhere at the mall, too.
Five Below entered Washington state at this location in November 2025, taking over a former Party City space after that company went through bankruptcy.
The store opened on November 7, followed by a grand opening the next day.
The mall itself shut down its interior on July 1, 2025. The redeveloped property, The Hub @ Everett, was expected to open sometime in 2026.
