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The International Council of Shopping Centers makes the presence of anchors one of the main defining characteristics of the two largest categories of centres, the regional center with 400,000 to 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) in gross leasable area, and the superregional center with more than 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) of space.
Otay Ranch Town Center is an open-air shopping mall/lifestyle center in the Otay Ranch area of Chula Vista, California, south of San Diego.Owned and operated by Brookfield Properties, it includes anchor stores such as AMC Theatres, Barnes & Noble, Planet Fitness, and Macy's.
The store cost $8.5 million to build, was 208,000 square feet (19,300 m 2) in size, employed around 1,000 people and had parking for 5,000 cars. Brown McPherson was the first store manager [4] In February 1963, a J.W. Robinson's was added as the mall's second anchor store.
Only Buffums was open at the mall opening and the other anchors opened gradually through 1976. The western wing was demolished and expanded in the late 1980s, completing in 1994 with a Nordstrom store replacing Buffum's. [2] The J.W. Robinson's store became a Robinsons-May store in 1993, and The Broadway was converted into Macy's in 1996.
The theater closed in the mid-1990s. Boston Store closed down in the 1990s and wasn't replaced by a new anchor. In 1996, Federated Department Stores bought out The Broadway and decided not to convert the Whittwood store to a Macy's for unknown reasons. It was closed and sold to Sears, which moved in by November of that year.
On December 20, 2013, a shooting was reported at the West Valley Mall near the eastern entrance. [10] No injuries were reported from the incident, and the accused shooter was apprehended shortly after the shooting. [11] On November 7, 2019, Sears announced it would close its Tracy store (along with 95 others). The store closed in February 2020 ...
Mervyn's was the mall's fifth anchor store until they went out of business in 2008. Forever 21 moved into the upper level of the former Mervyn's in 2010. Sports Authority moved into the lower level of the former Mervyn's in 2011, [5] which closed when that chain went out of business in 2016. The space has since been taken by Dick's Sporting ...
The mall's number of occupied stores declined from 130 in the late 1980s to 87 in 1994 and around 70 in 1998. After the Macy's Clearance Center (which replaced The Broadway upon the latter's purchase by Federated Department Stores ) closed in December 1997, plans were announced to put in an AMC Theatre on the site and convert the mall into an ...