Health & Fitness
Did You Know This About Roseville's Rosedale Center?
The ground breaking ceremony for Rosedale Center was in 1968. Forty three years later senior marketing manager Liz Ostrander unearths the ground breaking shovel for public display!
Liz Ostrander is the senior marketing manager of Rosedale Center and she also sits on the board of the Roseville Visitors Association. When I was talking to her on the phone the other day, she mentioned that she had been down in the basement of Macy’s and came across a container with a shovel inside it.
Turns out this was the actual shovel used in the groundbreaking ceremony for Rosedale Center.
This revelation prompted a number of questions from me. Number one being, just exactly how big is Macy’s ‘basement’? And do they have any leftover ‘purchase with a gift’ cosmetic sets they want to get rid of?
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How many of you out there remember the groundbreaking ceremony that took place in May of 1968?
The Grand Opening that followed took place over the dates of August 15 – 17, 1969 with Roseville Mayor Don Moll at the ribbon cutting and 150,000 roses on display.
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While I don’t know what a rose cost back then, today a single long stem red rose goes for $3.99 at Hermes, a price that would set current owners, Jones Lang LaSalle, back $598,500.
The first major department stores were Dayton’s (I loved that store), Donaldson’s and Young-Quinlan. Rosedale opened with approximately 80 retailers and 659,854 square feet of retail. The only original store that remains today is Florsheim Shoes and back then one of the more telling signs of the times was the saddle shop that also sold horse supplies.
Today, according to Liz: Rosedale Center is ranked top regional center in the market, centrally located between the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Rosedale Center has kmore than 160 retailers and is 1,149,487 square feet. Anchors: Macy’s, JCPenney, Herberger’s, AMC Theaters and the lifestyle component The Plaza. Six full service restaurants: Big Bowl, Granite City, Flame, Macaroni Grill, Ruby Tuesday and Green Mill. Plus Chipotle, Potbelly Sandwich Works and Panera.
They boast more than 14 million visitors annually.
Plus, in another of Minnesota first’s, following the success of their stores in New York, the Macy's at Rosedale Center became their first store in Minnesota to have 24-hour shopping during the 2009 Christmas season according to Wikipedia.
