Totem Lake Mall: Kirkland, Washington on DeadMalls.com

TOTEM LAKE MALL: KIRKLAND, WA

Robert Holloway's Commentary:

Posted January 20, 2010 (user submitted September 22, 2007)

Totem Lake mall in Kirkland, Washington was built on reclaimed swamp land north of town by the Pay N' Save Corporation. Lamonts was the first to build in 1973. A small interior mall was built around it in 1974 along with an upper strip mall. Featuring such stores as Ernst Hardware, Pay N' Save Drugs, and Thriftway Market, the mall was an initial success but slowly it started to fade in the 1990's. Most of the original anchor stores were replaced and then closed. Many failed attempts to revive the mall were proposed but as of September 2007, the mall remains Dead and slowly sinking (literally).

Links

http://thesledgehammer.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/retail-wasteland-a-tour-of-the-totem-lake-mall/

Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tequilaanddonuts/tags/deadmalltotemlake/

Eden`’s Commentary:

User submitted Jan 2012

I have some photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/selva/tags/totemlakemall. The Old Country Buffet is now closed so there's *no* reason to walk inside anymore.

Brian Lutz’s Commentary:

User submitted Sep 2007

Over on my blog, I just put together a post containing a tour of the Totem Lake Mall in Kirkland Washington, a mall which has been in decline for quite a while and is now sitting mostly empty, with a redevelopment plan that seems to be somewhere in limbo. You can find the post here:

http://thesledgehammer.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/retail-wasteland-a-tour-of-the-totem-lake-mall/

Galen Levy’s Commentary:

User submitted Mar 2007

Here's the article about Totem Lake Mall in Kirkland, WA. I have seen how dead that mall is, it looks like it is dying. There's some archor stores on the outside of the mall still running along with CompUSA closing soon due to their bankrupty. There have been some plans to raze that mall and redevelop to commerical, residential with a 13 screen movie center.

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=eastbiz19e&date=20040519

Thanks,
Galen

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