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Lakewood Center
Lakewood Center is a super-regional shopping mall in Lakewood, California. Lakewood Center opened in 1952 and was enclosed in 1978.
The interior mall is anchored by Costco, JCPenney, Macy's, a Round One Entertainment center, and Target. Several businesses surround the mall property, including 24 Hour Fitness, Albertsons, Best Buy, Burlington, and The Home Depot.
At 2,069,000 square feet (192,200 m2), the Lakewood Center is ranked among the largest retail shopping malls by gross leasable area in the United States.
Lakewood Center opened in February 1952, serving the post-war planned community of Lakewood. The mall was originally anchored by two department stores, a large May Company and a much smaller three-level, 88,000 square-foot Butler Brothers.
Upon opening on February 18, 1952, the four-level, 346,700-square-foot (32,210 m2) May Company-Lakewood was the largest suburban department store in the world.
New stores were built around 1954-1955 in a section of the mall called the Faculty Shops, though they were not connected to the mall proper. 1965 brought two new department stores to the property: a four-level Bullock's and a two-level Buffums, both in standalone locations outside of the mall. Two years later, the existing mall was expanded to accommodate a two-level, 173,000 square-foot JCPenney store on the mall's south end. A standalone Pacific Theatres two-screen cinema opened in the mall's parking lot in 1968, which was later expanded to four screens in 1975. The 1970s brought another department store to the property, with a two-level, 155,000 square-foot Montgomery Ward opening in 1975 in place of the former Butler Bros., which shuttered the previous year. The Lakewood Center continued to grow in size and scale into the 1980s, with the addition of another Pacific-owned three-screen cinema (branded Pacific Theatres Lakewood Center South 1-2-3) adjacent to Buffums in 1981. A new wing anchored by a two-level, 80,000 square-foot Mervyn's was constructed on the eastern side of the center in 1982, adding a second corridor to the mall's barbell shape.
Consolidation in the department store industry led to several major changes at the Lakewood Center, as their large spaces began to turn over. Buffums shuttered in 1991 as a result of a company liquidation, while Bullock's closed in 1993 due to the bankruptcy of parent company R.H. Macy & Co. That same year, May Company consolidated its two department stores nameplates in the western United States - May Co. and Robinson's - into Robinsons-May. The southern Pacific Theatres complex expanded into the former Buffums in 1992, adding six more screens in the process, while the former Bullock's was razed to accommodate The Home Depot, which opened in 1995.
The original Pacific Theatres four-screen complex was shuttered in 1998 for a dramatic expansion and renovation, and reopened in 1999 as a modern sixteen-screen multiplex.
Lakewood Center
Lakewood Center is a super-regional shopping mall in Lakewood, California. Lakewood Center opened in 1952 and was enclosed in 1978.
The interior mall is anchored by Costco, JCPenney, Macy's, a Round One Entertainment center, and Target. Several businesses surround the mall property, including 24 Hour Fitness, Albertsons, Best Buy, Burlington, and The Home Depot.
At 2,069,000 square feet (192,200 m2), the Lakewood Center is ranked among the largest retail shopping malls by gross leasable area in the United States.
Lakewood Center opened in February 1952, serving the post-war planned community of Lakewood. The mall was originally anchored by two department stores, a large May Company and a much smaller three-level, 88,000 square-foot Butler Brothers.
Upon opening on February 18, 1952, the four-level, 346,700-square-foot (32,210 m2) May Company-Lakewood was the largest suburban department store in the world.
New stores were built around 1954-1955 in a section of the mall called the Faculty Shops, though they were not connected to the mall proper. 1965 brought two new department stores to the property: a four-level Bullock's and a two-level Buffums, both in standalone locations outside of the mall. Two years later, the existing mall was expanded to accommodate a two-level, 173,000 square-foot JCPenney store on the mall's south end. A standalone Pacific Theatres two-screen cinema opened in the mall's parking lot in 1968, which was later expanded to four screens in 1975. The 1970s brought another department store to the property, with a two-level, 155,000 square-foot Montgomery Ward opening in 1975 in place of the former Butler Bros., which shuttered the previous year. The Lakewood Center continued to grow in size and scale into the 1980s, with the addition of another Pacific-owned three-screen cinema (branded Pacific Theatres Lakewood Center South 1-2-3) adjacent to Buffums in 1981. A new wing anchored by a two-level, 80,000 square-foot Mervyn's was constructed on the eastern side of the center in 1982, adding a second corridor to the mall's barbell shape.
Consolidation in the department store industry led to several major changes at the Lakewood Center, as their large spaces began to turn over. Buffums shuttered in 1991 as a result of a company liquidation, while Bullock's closed in 1993 due to the bankruptcy of parent company R.H. Macy & Co. That same year, May Company consolidated its two department stores nameplates in the western United States - May Co. and Robinson's - into Robinsons-May. The southern Pacific Theatres complex expanded into the former Buffums in 1992, adding six more screens in the process, while the former Bullock's was razed to accommodate The Home Depot, which opened in 1995.
The original Pacific Theatres four-screen complex was shuttered in 1998 for a dramatic expansion and renovation, and reopened in 1999 as a modern sixteen-screen multiplex.