Knollwood Mall

Caribou Coffee, the Minneapolis-founded specialty coffee chain whose Minnesota origins give it a commercial identity in the Twin Cities market that Starbucks does not carry at equivalent local resonance, serves the daily café and community gathering occasion at Knollwood Mall in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, at Highway 7 and Monterey Drive in the inner-ring western Minneapolis suburb. Nordstrom Rack, Kohl’s, and TJ Maxx give the property an off-price and accessible luxury comparison-shopping floor whose combined catchment gives the St. Louis Park household the premium brand outlet access that the enclosed regional mall format with full-price national department stores no longer efficiently delivers. Cub Foods, the Minnesota-founded supermarket cooperative, anchors the grocery and daily-needs category with the locally-specific brand identity that the national grocery chains do not match for the Twin Cities consumer who treats Cub as a commercially native format.

Ulta Beauty and Sephora give the property a dual prestige and full-line beauty floor. Total Wine and More gives the property a large-format wine and spirits retail identity. HomeGoods gives the property a home décor and lifestyle goods identity. Old Navy serves the accessible fashion floor. DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse serves the accessible premium footwear category. Panera Bread, Noodles and Company, Caribou Coffee, and Nothing Bundt Cakes serve the café and fast-casual dining floor. America’s Best Contacts and Eyeglasses and Pearle Vision serve the optical retail categories. GNC serves the health and supplements category.

The property’s commercial role in the west Minneapolis inner ring is the St. Louis Park Highway 7 lifestyle center: a Caribou Coffee-Nordstrom Rack-Cub Foods Minnesota-native commercial platform whose Sephora-Ulta dual prestige beauty floor, TJ Maxx off-price comparison shopping, and Total Wine premium beverage retail give the St. Louis Park and inner west Minneapolis household a lifestyle retail destination whose Minnesota-native tenant co-tenancy gives the format a commercial character the nationally-templated strip center and enclosed mall formats in the same suburban corridor do not match on equivalent local terms.