A vacant section of Tigard’s Washington Square shopping center may soon have a significant makeover.
According to recent paperwork submitted to the city of Tigard, the long-vacant old Sears on the south end of the mall may be demolished.
Dick’s House of Sport, a more recent product from the sporting goods shop, would take the place of the Sears. It would have climbing walls, golf bays, and multi-sport cages for baseball, soccer, lacrosse, and other sports.
The company, which recently launched its first stores in New York, Tennessee, and Minnesota, claims that the stores, which typically have more than 100,000 square feet of floor area, may be reserved for events. Dick’s Sporting Goods already has a regular store at the transit center at the opposite end of Washington Square mall.
Plans for a five-story hotel south of the parking garage at Washington Square and an apartment complex on the south end of the property, where a Sears car center once stood, are also included in the documents, which were first published by the Portland Business Journal.
As part of the company’s bankruptcy reorganization, the Sears at Washington Square closed in 2018. While the remainder of the mall did well, even recovering from the pandemic to have high store occupancy as of 2024, that area has lagged ever since.
A request for comment was not immediately answered by a mall representative.
–Jonathan Bach covers real estate and housing. You can contact him by phone at 503-221-4303 or by email at [email protected].
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