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Ala Moana Center
The Ala Moana Center, often simply called Ala Moana, is a large open-air shopping mall in the Ala Moana neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. Owned by GGP, a subsidiary of Brookfield Properties, Ala Moana is the eighth largest shopping mall in the United States and the largest open-air shopping center in the world.
Ala Moana is consistently ranked among the most successful malls in the world. With assets totaling $5.74 billion as of January 2018, it is the most valuable shopping mall in the United States. It is anchored by Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Nordstrom, and Target. There is one vacant anchor formerly occupied by Neiman Marcus. Junior anchors are Marshalls and Ross Dress for Less. The mall also features stores and restaurants such as Uniqlo, Liliha Bakery, and Foodland, along with services such as a satellite city hall and USPS post office.
Before the construction of the mall, the land was a wetland. Dredging projects nearby spearheaded by Walter F. Dillingham created excess coral which filled the wetland, purchased by Dillingham in 1912 from the estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Land reclaimed, son and successor Lowell Dillingham initiated the Ala Moana Center project in 1948 and broke ground in 1957.
The Ala Moana Center was developed and designed by Don Graham. Critics viewed Graham's unusual design, which oriented the mall away from the Pacific Ocean and included two levels for retail and parking, as a potential failure. However, the Ala Moana Center proved a success after its opening, and helped refocus the retail center of Oʻahu away from Downtown Honolulu. Graham worked as the center's first general manager after its opening.
When it opened in 1959, Ala Moana Center became the largest shopping mall in the United States. Brookfield Properties of Chicago currently owns and operates Ala Moana Center. Although later retail developments across the nation have overshadowed it over the years, Brookfield markets and lists Ala Moana Center as the world's largest open-air mall with a total retail space of 2,270,186 sq ft (210,907.2 m2). Its original tenants included Sears, Roebuck and Company, F. W. Woolworth Company, Foodland, Longs Drugs, and Shirokiya, among other local shops. Ala Moana Center's second-phase expansion included the 1961 addition of the Ala Moana Office Building (including La Ronde, the first revolving restaurant in the United States), and the 1966 addition of JCPenney and Liberty House in a new Diamond Head wing. In 1982, Ala Moana Center was purchased by a partnership of Japanese corporation Daiei and an insurance company. In 1995, Daiei became the sole owner. Once a management vendor for Daiei, General Growth Properties purchased Ala Moana Center in 1999 after Daiei filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
The Phase Three expansion in 1987 included renovations and the addition of the Makai Market food court. In 1990, Phase Four constructed a third level of retail in the middle of the mall, reconfiguring the central area with high-end luxury stores. Phase Five added Neiman Marcus as a new anchor in 1998 and spaces for more than 30 stores and restaurants in further upper level expansions in 1999.
In 2003, JCPenney Co. closed its Hawaii stores in a cost-cutting measure, including its Ala Moana location that had been an anchor in the mall since 1966. The department store's four-level space was divided up and redeveloped into new stores. In 2005, the Ho‘okipa Terrace opened above the former JCPenney space; this vertical expansion added a fourth mall level containing restaurants and an open air bar.
A shopping complex and parking spaces north of the mall to Kapi‘olani Boulevard were demolished in 2006 to make way for the Mauka wing, which was completed on March 7, 2008. The Mauka wing added a dual level concourse lined with specialty merchants and was originally anchored by a 210,000 sq ft (20,000 m2) Nordstrom.
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Ala Moana Center
The Ala Moana Center, often simply called Ala Moana, is a large open-air shopping mall in the Ala Moana neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. Owned by GGP, a subsidiary of Brookfield Properties, Ala Moana is the eighth largest shopping mall in the United States and the largest open-air shopping center in the world.
Ala Moana is consistently ranked among the most successful malls in the world. With assets totaling $5.74 billion as of January 2018, it is the most valuable shopping mall in the United States. It is anchored by Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Nordstrom, and Target. There is one vacant anchor formerly occupied by Neiman Marcus. Junior anchors are Marshalls and Ross Dress for Less. The mall also features stores and restaurants such as Uniqlo, Liliha Bakery, and Foodland, along with services such as a satellite city hall and USPS post office.
Before the construction of the mall, the land was a wetland. Dredging projects nearby spearheaded by Walter F. Dillingham created excess coral which filled the wetland, purchased by Dillingham in 1912 from the estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Land reclaimed, son and successor Lowell Dillingham initiated the Ala Moana Center project in 1948 and broke ground in 1957.
The Ala Moana Center was developed and designed by Don Graham. Critics viewed Graham's unusual design, which oriented the mall away from the Pacific Ocean and included two levels for retail and parking, as a potential failure. However, the Ala Moana Center proved a success after its opening, and helped refocus the retail center of Oʻahu away from Downtown Honolulu. Graham worked as the center's first general manager after its opening.
When it opened in 1959, Ala Moana Center became the largest shopping mall in the United States. Brookfield Properties of Chicago currently owns and operates Ala Moana Center. Although later retail developments across the nation have overshadowed it over the years, Brookfield markets and lists Ala Moana Center as the world's largest open-air mall with a total retail space of 2,270,186 sq ft (210,907.2 m2). Its original tenants included Sears, Roebuck and Company, F. W. Woolworth Company, Foodland, Longs Drugs, and Shirokiya, among other local shops. Ala Moana Center's second-phase expansion included the 1961 addition of the Ala Moana Office Building (including La Ronde, the first revolving restaurant in the United States), and the 1966 addition of JCPenney and Liberty House in a new Diamond Head wing. In 1982, Ala Moana Center was purchased by a partnership of Japanese corporation Daiei and an insurance company. In 1995, Daiei became the sole owner. Once a management vendor for Daiei, General Growth Properties purchased Ala Moana Center in 1999 after Daiei filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
The Phase Three expansion in 1987 included renovations and the addition of the Makai Market food court. In 1990, Phase Four constructed a third level of retail in the middle of the mall, reconfiguring the central area with high-end luxury stores. Phase Five added Neiman Marcus as a new anchor in 1998 and spaces for more than 30 stores and restaurants in further upper level expansions in 1999.
In 2003, JCPenney Co. closed its Hawaii stores in a cost-cutting measure, including its Ala Moana location that had been an anchor in the mall since 1966. The department store's four-level space was divided up and redeveloped into new stores. In 2005, the Ho‘okipa Terrace opened above the former JCPenney space; this vertical expansion added a fourth mall level containing restaurants and an open air bar.
A shopping complex and parking spaces north of the mall to Kapi‘olani Boulevard were demolished in 2006 to make way for the Mauka wing, which was completed on March 7, 2008. The Mauka wing added a dual level concourse lined with specialty merchants and was originally anchored by a 210,000 sq ft (20,000 m2) Nordstrom.