Westaland Mall opened in 1969 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center, much like the Northland Mall five years earlier. Lazuras had a free-standing store on the site beginning in 1962 and became one of the mall's anchors. In the 70s, the mall was the home of the QUBE cable TV-produced??America Goes Bananaz??teen variety show.??The mall was enclosed in 1982 and for a time was one of the area's top shopping destinations. New malls, though, siphoned off shoppers and the Wetsland Mall finally closed for good in 2017.
