Before Online Shopping: Sioux Falls’ LaBelle’s Catalog Showroom

For three decades, when Sioux Falls drove down Liouse Ave we saw the sign for Gordmans off-price department store across the parking lot from the Empire Mall.

In September 2020, the store closed for good. The building then sat empty for a few years and I threw out ideas for the empty former-Gordmans building. Like an Ikea or a Trader Joe's; or we could create a time machine and make it a Tower Recoreds from 1992.

Nobody took any of my ideas, instead, in 2023 the old Gordmans spot in Sioux Falls became a Crunch Fitness franchise.