Frontier Mall

Not to be confused with Frontier Centre (Saskatchewan, Canada).

Frontier Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located along Dell Range Blvd in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. The single-level, 519,471-square-foot (48,260.4 m²) mall opened March 18, 1981 Managed by CBL & Associates Properties of Chattanooga, Tennessee, it is Wyoming's second largest mall, boasting 67 shops, including four anchor stores: JCPenney, JAX Outdoor Gear, Planet Fitness, and Appliance Factory Mattress Kingdom.

Frontier Mall

Location	Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S.
Address	1400 Dell Range Blvd
Opening date	March 18, 1981
Management	CBL & Associates Properties
Owner	CBL & Associates Properties
No. of stores and services	67
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	519,471 sq ft (48,260.4 m2)
No. of floors	1
Website	frontiermall.com

History

Frontier Mall was announced in October 1978 and would originally be 550,000 square feet (51,000 m²) large. It was developed by CBL & Associates Properties of Chattanooga, Tennessee.^[1] Construction began the following year, and the Sears location was the first to open on October 8, 1980, months before completion of the rest of the mall. Other areas of the mall remained under construction until they were completed in March 1981.^[2] The mall's interior tenants included Chick-Fil-A, Denim Connection, Foxmoor, Kinney Shoes, Taco Etc., Thom McAn, Western Ranchman Outfitters, and Zales' Jewelers.^[3][4]

In the late 1990s, a Dillard's store was built as an anchor to the building.^[5] Chain store Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts opened a new store on September 15, 2011.^[6][7] The Frontier Mall's Jo-Ann store would replace several smaller tenants including Twills,^[8] Natural Lites,^[9] a former Asian Gifts storefront,^[10] and a former RadioShack storefront.^[11]

Sports Authority closed their store in 2016 in addition to closing the remaining stores still open after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.^[12] In November 2017, the Sears store was announced to close, liquidation starting before the end of the year and the store closing in January 2018.^[13][14] In the same month, Planet Fitness was in the process of opening in the former Sports Authority;^[15] the new gym would open in February 2018.^[16]

JAX Mercantile Company would begin working to open a new JAX Outdoor Gear, Farm and Ranch store in the former Sears space in 2019,^[17] opening in late November. The Frontier Mall's JAX store would be the eighth location of the normal, full-line JAX stores.^[18] Later in December 2019, America's Best Contacts and Eye Glasses^[19] would actively be remodeling the remaining vacant space of the former Sports Authority, opening by the following year with an exterior entry to the store. Dillard's later converted its location into a Dillard's Clearance Center in 2020. The location later closed entirely, becoming abandoned. In May 2023, an Appliance Factory & Mattress Kingdom location opened in the former space.^[20]

Anchor stores

• JCPenney (original anchor)^[21]
• Planet Fitness (former Sports Authority/Gart Sports/Fashion Bar)
• Bomgaars (former Sears)
• Dillard's East (original anchor, opened 1997, housed the women's department, converted into a full-line Dillard's in 2020)
• Appliance Factory Mattress Kingdom (former Dillard's (West)/Joslins)

Former anchors

• Joslins (original anchor, formerly closed upon acquisition before becoming Dillard's West in 1998)
• Sears (original anchor, closed January 2018, now JAX)
• Sports Authority (closed August 2016, now Planet Fitness)
• Gart Sports (tenant of what became Sports Authority, was present as of 2001)^[22]
• Dillard's West (former J-Joslins, housed the men's, kids and home furnishings departments. Converted to a clearance center by mid 2020 before closing in November 2020, now Appliance Factory Mattress Kingdom)^[23]
• Jo-Ann (former store fronts of Natural Lites, Asian Gifts, Verizon, and Twills; closed May 2025)