Har Mar Mall keeps me up at night.
Located at the intersection of Snelling Avenue and County Road B, this 63-year-old mall is sitting on 48 acres of prime Roseville real estate. Yet the 446,000-square-foot structure is mostly empty and somehow getting even emptier—in recent years suburban faves Marshall’s and Home Goods both left for greener pastures nearby. Har Mar used to have a movie theater (Har Mar Cinema 11), an ice cream shop (Sunday’s Ice Cream), a clothing store called Dots my mom loved, and a David’s Bridal where a friend of one Racket editor bought her wedding dress. Now? It’s all gone.
“Sadly, now I feel it’s in such a state I don’t feel it’s ever coming back,” Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio owner Kathleen Fuery, Har Mar’s longest-tenured tenant, told the Strib last year…