Northtown Mall in Blaine, MN, Quietly Became a Different Place

Commercial Ambitions on Highway 10

The traffic still hums along County Road 10, but in 1965, it was part of the old U.S. Highway 10—two lanes headed northwest toward Anoka.

That’s when Robert Muir, a California-based developer, bought 83 acres of open land near where the road met University Avenue.

There was no mall then—just an intersection in Blaine, Minnesota, with room to build…

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