Retail Timing and Trade Hopes – River Park Square Opens for Expo ’74
The glass doors at 808 West Main swung open on May 1, 1974. Just four days later, Spokane’s Expo ’74 would bring international crowds through the downtown core.
River Park Square opened into that energy, anchored by Nordstrom and surrounded by fresh concrete, steel, and early optimism.
At launch, the center housed 800,000 square feet of retail space, structured around multiple floors and wrapped in skywalks, a model that fit the era’s urban mall boom…