Business owners with stores in the 1 million-square-foot mall said they repeatedly dealt with a leaking roof.

A May hailstorm so viciously battered the Colorado Mills mall in Lakewood that it may not open again until late 2017. But it’s not the first time the shopping center sprang a leak.

Four business owners with stores in the 1 million-square-foot mall said they repeatedly dealt with a leaking roof when lesser storms rolled through the Front Range.

“Anytime it rained you had to put buckets everywhere,” said Eduardo Khan, who worked at Accessorize Me, a fashion store owned by his brother, Ali Khan. BusinessDen Mall tenants: Colorado Mills has a history of leaks – BusinessDen