 In 1978, Donaldson's then parent company, Allied Stores transferred control of the three-store James Black Company chain of Waterloo, Iowa to Donaldson's.Donaldson's flagship store left its longtime home on the east side of Nicollet for the new City Center development across Nicollet when the mall opened in 1982.After vacating, the original store complex, which comprised half a city block, burned in the 1982 Thanksgiving Day Fire as a result of arson, along with the adjacent Northwestern National Bank Building; the sites were replaced with and are currently occupied by Gaviidae Common on the Donaldson's tract and Wells Fargo Center (the successor to Northwestern National Bank/Norwest) on the bank property.