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Westfield Capital Mall Construction

Submitted by Sarah on Wed, 10/19/2005 - 2:48pm.

Capital Mall, which is now Westfield Capital , is going through big changes. Quite a bit of formerly treed land is being cleared and dozed and constructed. Westfield calls it HY Style expansion.

During their chipping phase, and man was that chipper huge, the noise level in the area was definitely up. Locals report that they can hear construction noise at night. Now things have settled to a mostly dull roar, the beeping sound of trucks backing up now nothing to remark on.

And most likely because of the coming of the rains plus shift in construction phase, the air quality seems back to normal again. During the chipping of trees I noticed that the rate of coughing people in the area seemed higher, might just be coincidence.

One of the construction companies is Pivetta Brothers, they are out of Sumner.

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When they put in the mall, we

Submitted by Rick on Wed, 10/19/2005 - 5:00pm.

When they put in the mall, we all referred to it as "Capitalist Mall."

What was on the land before t

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 10/20/2005 - 7:28pm.

What was on the land before the Capitalist Mall?

Nothing but trees. Such a wa

Submitted by Rick on Thu, 10/20/2005 - 8:33pm.

Nothing but trees. Such a waste.

And a lot of scotch broom. We

Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 10/22/2005 - 10:56am.

And a lot of scotch broom. We also called it Das Kapital Mall. The corner of Division and Harrison was the central business hub of the Westside when I first remember it. The SE corner had a lumber yard, the SW corner had the Westside Food Lockers, and NW corner had a gas station. Then they opened that strip mall where Rainy Day Records now resides (I saw J.P. Patches at the grand opening of that complex!) and the Westside started expanding. The edge of town was about where McDonald's now sits. That was the home of Happy's Nursery (the botanical kind).

This is all such great inform

Submitted by Sarah on Sat, 10/22/2005 - 12:00pm.

This is all such great information, appreciated. What was on the surrounding area before?

I can't remember

Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 10/22/2005 - 1:57pm.

I can't remember what was there before. But the world did stop at Black Lake Blvd. and it was pretty much undeveloped on the west side of the street.

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