Northtown Mall is a shopping mall located in Blaine, Minnesota, United States. The mall's anchor stores are Hobby Lobby, Best Buy Outlet, 2 Becker Furniture World stores, and Burlington. In addition, Northtown Mall features over 100 stores and restaurants, as well as a food court and Paladin Career and Technical High School public charter school which was open in September 2002. The mall is owned by 4th Dimension Propertes. Over 5.5 million people visit the mall every year.At the time of its grand opening in October 1972, it was the third largest shopping center in the Twin Cities. It was the first regional shopping center in the Twin Cities that was not owned by the Dayton Corporation, which developed the Southdale Center and later "Dales" shopping centers. Northtown Mall was located on 83 acres of land, and built at a cost of $30 million.