Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about VON MAUR!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Von Maur, Inc. , stylized as VON MAUR, is an American department store chain . the store eventually expanded and moved into their flagship store, the Redstone Building at 2nd and Main Streets in Daven von Maur, who came from Austria, established the Boston Store in downtown Davenport in 1887 . despite the common ownership, Petersen’s and Harned & Von Maur continued to operate as separate the store was renamed Petersen Harned Von Maur, which was often shortened to “Petersen’s” another branch store opened at SouthPark Mall in Moline, Illinois, in 1974 the Petersen Harned Von Maur flagship store in downtown Davenport closed in 1986 . the redstone building is now home to the river music experience . Von Maur currently has 6 stores in Illinois, more than any other state . the company expanded its geographic reach into Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Nebraska . it also expanded into Michigan by taking over two mall locations of the Von Maur opened its 23rd store in Phase II of The Greene, a project of Steiner Associates in Dayton, OH . the 24th store at the Corbin Park Lifestyle Center in Overland Park, Von Maur will open its first store in the Southeast in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta . the regional flagship store would convert a former location previously occupied by Lord & Taylor, then Belk . Von Maur announced in early January 2012 they would be opening their second Atlanta area store at the soon-to-be shuttered Bloomingdale’s location at Perimeter Mall in north suburban Dunwoody . the three- Von Maur opened their third Georgia store (after Northpoint Mall and Perimeter Mall) in March 2016, the company announced it would open a second store in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area . the two-story, 1