Elder-Beerman, which opened in 1995 with the food court at the mall's West end, closed in February 2007 and was vacant for a few months until it was converted to a Younkers Furniture Gallery.

A Younkers in Marquette, Michigan which was converted from H. C. Prange

After a hostile takeover bid by Carson Pirie Scott was rejected in 1995, Younkers ' shareholders agreed to a friendly takeover by Proffitt's, Inc., of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Saks sold Younkers and its other Northern Department Store Group stores Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, Boston Store, and Herberger's ) to Bon-Ton Stores in a $ 1. 1 billion deal that was completed on March 6, 2006.

In 1960, General Management opened its second center, Duck Creek Plaza in Bettendorf, Iowa ; this was their first mall to have a department store ( Younkers ) as an anchor.

In the fall of 1968, Younkers was opened.

The company's main-line department store group was made up of its Southern Department Store Group: McRae's and Proffitt's, the Northern Department Store Group: Bergner's, Boston Store, Carson Pirie Scott, Herberger's and Younkers, the company's Specialty Department Store Group Parisian, and the company's Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises which included Saks Fifth Avenue and Off 5th.

On October 31 that same year, Saks announced that it was selling the 142 stores within its Northern Department Store Group, including Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, Younkers, Herberger's, and Boston Store to Bon-Ton Stores, Inc., for $ 1. 1 billion ; the transaction was complete as of March 6, 2006.

A fourth anchor space between Younkers and Scheels was part of the original plans for the mall, but no retailer has committed to that space yet and the fourth anchor remains unbuilt.

The original anchors were JCPenney, Younkers, and Montgomery Ward, which closed when the chain went out of business in 2001 and was replaced by Dillard's two years later.

The chain was dissolved and the stores converted to the rival Younkers chain after sale in 1992.

The H. C. Prange Company's 25-unit department store division was purchased by Younkers, Inc. for $ 67 million in 1992.

H. C. Prange's flagship store in Sheboygan operates today as a Boston Store, and was previously a Younkers.

In July 2005, Saks completed the sale of its Southern Department Store Group consisting of Proffitt's and McRae's to Charlotte, NC based Belk, Inc .. On October 31, 2005, Saks announced that it was selling Boston Store and its other Northern Department Store Group stores ( Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, Younkers, and Herberger's ) to Bon-Ton Stores in a $ 1. 1 billion deal ; the transaction was completed on March 6, 2006.

Roshek's became one of the mall's anchor tenants, along with Montgomery Ward and Younkers, a Des Moines department store which made its first appearance in Dubuque when the mall was built.

Today what was originally Roshek's space in the mall is occupied by two other department stores, Sears and Younkers.

On October 31, 2005, Saks announced that it was selling Herberger's and its other Northern Department Store Group stores ( Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, Boston Store, and Younkers ) to Bon-Ton Stores in a $ 1. 1 billion deal ; the transaction was completed on March 6, 2006.

The Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, and Boston Store chains, along with Younkers and Herberger's nameplates, eventually operated as Saks ' Northern Department Store Group ( NDSG ), based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The mall is anchored by Shopko ( North end ), Kohl's ( East end ), and Younkers ( in the South end at the former Montgomery Ward location, this Younkers location opened a few months before the closing of their Port Plaza Mall store in downtown Green Bay ).

It is anchored by JCPenney, Sears, Macy's, Younkers, Scheels All Sports and Target.

* The Shopping District is a two-level enclosed shopping center anchored by Younkers, Dillard's, and Scheels All Sports ; Younkers replaced Famous-Barr when they pulled out of the project a year before the mall opened.

It is anchored by Dillard's, JCPenney, Sears, Von Maur, and Younkers.

Rhodes met Julie Anne Friedman ( heiress to the Iowa, USA Younkers Department Store fortune ) at a yacht party while on an American tour in 1982, and married her on 18 August 1984.

In 1997, Proffitt's included five brands: 19 Proffitt's stores, mostly in Tennessee ; 29 McRae's stores in Alabama and Mississippi ; 48 Younkers stores, mostly in Iowa and Wisconsin ; 40 Parisian stores ; and 39 Herberger's stores, concentrated in the Midwest.

Younkers is an American department store chain founded as a family-run dry goods business in 1856 in Keokuk, Iowa.

Younkers became influential as it acquired several rivals throughout the 20th century both inside and outside of Iowa.

The original Younker Brothers Department Store | Younkers store in downtown Des Moines, Iowa.

Younkers began expanding outside of Iowa during the 1950s and opened its first shopping mall store in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1955.

Most of Coral Ridge Mall's anchors, except for Younkers and Dillard's, relocated from other shopping centers in the Iowa City area ; Younkers ran two stores in Johnson County before closing its Old Capitol Mall store in January 2005.

Birmingham, Alabama, based Parisian and Younkers of Des Moines, Iowa, were both acquired in 1996 and retained their names and operating units.

A series of additions, enlargements, and mergers resulted in the company changing its name to Younkers Incorporated.

From 1994 to 1998, the company added McRae's, Younkers, Parisian, Herberger's, Carson Pirie Scott, Boston Store, and Bergner's chains, as well as additional stores from Loveman's, Parks-Belk, and Brody's, which were converted into existing store nameplates.

Coral Ridge Mall's anchor stores are Sears, Dillard's, JCPenney, Younkers, Target, and Best Buy, which is attached to Target but not accessible from the rest of the mall.

After returning to public ownership on the NASDAQ on April 22, 1992, Younkers purchased the 22 stores of the H. C. Prange chain in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Another mall, Cherryland Center, is located on Garfield Avenue on the south end of town ; this mall features Kmart, Younkers, and Sears.

Proffitt's, which had acquired Younkers and McRae's two years before, also acquired G. R.

* Younkers is located in the Westroads Mall.

The mall also has an American football stadium-themed food court, known as the " Supper Bowl ", located next door to Younkers Furniture.

Following its most recent sale in 2006, Younkers operates as a subsidiary of The Bon-Ton, with locations in seven Midwestern states, primarily in shopping malls.

The future novelist and newspaper editor Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd worked as a clerk at the Younkers store in Des Moines in 1889.

) By 1978 Younkers had 28 stores in five states.

In November 1978, a fire broke out in the Younkers store in the Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines, killing 10 of the store's 25 employees.

To date, it is the most devastating fire in Des Moines ' history, and destroyed the original Younkers at the mall.

Under Equitable's ownership, Younkers acquired all 11 locations of the Omaha-based Brandeis department store chain in 1987.