You’ll note the spine’s ‘25 pointing to Sears, and ‘26 pointing to Pali, corresponding to the year at each campus. We’ll always be grateful for the way our neighboring city stepped up for our kids by offering the architecturally historic landmark 🩵💙🐬💙🩵
Later Sears from 1994 to 2024, 5 years back in April 2021 they downsized to 2 functioning sales floors. This was the last location in the state of Washington to shut down on December 15th of 2024 and it was in terrible condition. As of the day of this post, the last Sears on the West Coast is at the Sun Valley Shopping Center in Concord, the last in California, one of 5 left in the United States of America.
F&N stands for Frederick and Nelson. Founded in 1890, 4 years after Sears was founded as R.W. Sears Watch Company and 2 years prior to the start of Sears Roebuck and Company, F&N was once a department store chain in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. They closed up shop in 1992. Meanwhile the Sears department store itself was originally located in Renton before 1993. This anchor itself was built in 1968 and location in the Southcenter Mall opened sometime in March 1994. Anyone have any grand opening pictures of this location, along with the Sears in the Spokane Valley Mall store that opened in 1997 and closed down on February 16th of 2020 ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SEARS/s/sKGmMaxwKK
Sources and Credits as well as Dates Taken
Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/frederick-nelson-department-store-southcenter-mall-tukwila-wa-where-my-mom-worked-at-and-where-i-worked--10273905393438068/
Field Trip
https://www.fieldtripper.com/c/ItaIuIZnrK4/frederick-nelson-at-south-center-mall
Tessa Engler (Foursquare) September 29 2011
Mykie Gunderson (Foursquare) November 29 2011
Laura Kelley (Foursquare) March 26 2012
Former Sears Employee William (Willie) Jarrett (Foursquare) March 29 2012
James H. (Foursquare) July 28 2012
Dwison Toga (Foursquare) September 1 2013
Michael Struck (Google) November 25 2015
Everyday (Foursquare) March 12 and May 14 2017
Mary Solorzano (Foursquare) June 27 2017
Josh van Hulst (Foursquare) July 31 2018
Sione (Foursquare) December 15 2024
https://app.foursquare.com/v/sears/4b29ba36f964a520eea224e3
https://app.foursquare.com/v/sears/4b29ba36f964a520eea224e3/photos
Myself April 24 2026
Edit to add: Mount Rainier also seen in first picture
Today marks exactly 25 years since this Sears department store at the Stonebriar Center in Frisco Texas opened its doors on July 15th of 2000! On October 15th of 2018 Sears Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had since added 142 stores, including this one, to the list of locations that was slated to close on January 6th of 2019. As of this year it has since been slated to be turned into a Dick's House of Sport. There is still one Sears left in the state of Texas, at Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, the last one in the state and one of 8 to 7 to 6 and any month they could be 0. They also have a website Sears.com since the mid to late 1990s.
Taken by various users sometime in the 2010s decade
Built 2000
Edit: forgot to add dates, source and credits
Joey M. on March 29 2014
Chris C. on November 19 2014
Juan Q. on June 11 2017 and October 21, November 11 and December 24 2018
Daniela N. on Dec 29, 2018
As this Wednesday marks exactly 99 years since Sears started the brand Craftsman on May 20th of 1927 I thought I would be sharing these pictures of what the Sears website's lawn and garden page looked like in the 2000's as well as the old pictures of various Sears locations from the 2010s decade: the first one in my home state of Washington, the last location in South Dakota that has since been slated to become a Dicks House of Sport, and some that made it through the 2018 bankruptcy and the 2020-2021 coronavirus (covid 19) outbreak / pandemic and closed in 2023 and 2024, as well as the 3 out of 5 that are still open to this day.
When and where did your local (and nearest) Sears store get rid of Lawn and Garden (L&G) and why did the retailer get rid of that site wide and in store ?
Mine did at the Southcenter Mall in Washington State sometime back in 2020-2021 due to the October 15 2018 bankruptcy
Sources and Credits
Wayback Machine 2001-2009
Sears Seattle Facebook Page 2013
Esteban De Armas (Google) April 6 2017
Mike Kalasnik (Flickr) New Year's Day January 1st 2018
Byron A. Nash (Flickr) February 23rd 2018
Christian Villa (Google) January 8 2019
Jodi Schwan (SiouxFalls.Business) May 31 2018
https://siouxfalls.business/sears-to-announce-more-closures-today/
Sears Tukwila Facebook Page March 25 2011
Nicholas Eckhart / Fan of Retail (Flickr) January 3 2013
Locations
1st and Lander Street in Seattle Washington (May 4 1925 - June 1 2014)
Coral Gables Miami Florida, address 3655 SW 22nd St Miami Florida 33145 (October 27 1954 - present)
Friendly Center in Greensboro North Carolina (August 29 1973 - May 28 2023)
South Shore Plaza in Braintree Massachusetts (October 6 1980 - present)
Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso Texas (February 24 1982 - present)
Empire Mall in Sioux Falls South Dakota (June 29 1988 - September 2 2018)
Southcenter Mall in Seattle (technically Tukwila) Washington (March 1994 - December 15 2024)
Sears Grand at Pittsburgh Mills in Tarentum Pennsylvania (November 5 2005 - January 18 2015)
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Edit: as of the day of this post Kenmore grills still sell on Sears.com and Kenmoregrill.com and all 5 locations still have the grill department
- Coral Gables in Miami Florida 1954 - present (3655 SW 22nd St, Miami, FL 33145)
- Sun Valley Shopping Center in Concord California 1966 - present (1001 Sunvalley Blvd, Concord, CA 94520)
- South Shore Plaza in Braintree Massachusetts 1980 - present (250 Granite St, Braintree, MA 02184)
- Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso Texas 1982 - present (8401 Gateway Blvd W, El Paso, TX 79925)
- The Florida Mall in Orlando Florida 1986 - present (8001 S Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32809)
https://www.sears.com/outdoor-living-grills-outdoor-cooking/b-1024045?storeOrigin=Sears,Sears%20Authorized%20Supplier&filterList=storeOrigin
https://kenmoregrill.com/
https://kenmoregrill.com/kenmore-product-category/grills/
10th picture
*Lawn and Garden at the first Sears in Washington State and in the Pacific Northwest as well as on the West Coast in Seattle Washington circa 2013 (May 4th 1925 - June 1st 2014)
Anyone have a list of Sears department numbers and divisions . To share post on here
I am not going to writ the whole story, my laptop keyboard would die b4 I finished.. Suffice to say, To fix an ice maker and the internal fan in an over, required me taking almost 9 days off from work. Could have bought a new reefer for what it cost to take those days off.. THREE of these days , after getting spammed to death by their bot for days before ehe appointment, they texted in the middle of the day and said, too bad, we cant get to you today, reschedule.. and back to square one.. NEVER again,, AHS sent them, that is a whole other disaster.. They are now cancelled. I will NEVER use either of them again.. If I have to say something nice about AHS, you can at least talk to a human, not possible with Sears.. Although these humans are not US based, and cant understand anything that is out of the norm, and you cant understand them either.. But it is a human of sorts...
Don’t walk, RUN away!
Pictures taken on February 20th of 2026
Forgot to upload / post this on here
Took some pictures of the foot traffic today. See, it's not a ghost town lol.
*bottom floor entrance
Apparently they were told they are required to keep it open.
Here's a better view of how that part of Sunvalley Mall looks like. I think it should be quite clear that the top floor is the main floor and the one at ground level.
I am continuing my journey to go to as many former Sears locations in California. Today I visited the Sears at Sunvalley Mall in Concord CA. This is my 22nd location of the year. This store is the last remaining store that is OPEN in California. Yes, I did buy something there. A trend that I have done at the Burbank location before they closed as well as the Whittier location before they closed. I even set up a Sears Rewards account even though it is of little use to me given that I live about 500 miles from the closest Sears.
Went to the Northridge Mall in Salinas CA. This was my 23rd former Sears store in California this year.
Pictures I took in a Sears a few years ago before it shut down permanently. The second and third floors were closed off, but I was able to explore them and get some pictures.