This shopping center used to be called the Rich’s Plaza when Rich’s department store was the anchor store. The store opened in 1991 and was was back then one of the most recent new concept stores by Rich’s.  When Rich's closed in the mid 90's, Walmart opened one of its first stores of northern New Hampshire. Tjmaxx used to have a store at the plaza.  At one point it moved to the new Shaw’s plaza nearby and was quickly replaced by HomeGoods, another Tjx chain. 

The small Walmart store only had 69,700 sq.ft. of space, way below the size of current Walmart stores and Supercenters. Eventually, Hannaford proposed to relocate to the newly built Lowe’s-anchored Winnipesaukee Crossing across the street. CVS moved out to a free-standing building.