Best Places to Shop in Fairbanks

What­ev­er your cloth­ing and gear needs are, you can find top-qual­i­ty prod­ucts — along with advice from Alaskan experts — in this long-run­ning fam­i­ly-owned store with loca­tions in Anchor­age, Fair­banks, and Kodiak.

The build­ing now known as Co-op Plaza was once the Empress The­atre. Its con­struc­tion in 1927 caused a furor because it was the town’s first struc­ture to be built of rein­forced con­crete, and peo­ple believed that con­crete would crum­ble in the cold Fair­banks winter.