A proposal to redevelop the Valley West Mall site in West Des Moines has hit a snag and the mall is no longer under contract with the developer who has been working with the city to convert the 60-acre site into a mixed-use district, the Business Record has learned.
ATI Group went under contract for the 865,000-square-foot mall in August 2025 and has spent the past nine months in talks with the city to finalize details of an agreement that would allow the redevelopment of the site into something the city’s mayor said would be unlike anything else in Iowa.
The obstacle to making that happen has been ATI Group’s negotiations to buy out JCPenney’s lease, which runs through 2032…