Oakbrook Center

Oakbrook Center

Location	Oak Brook, Illinois
Coordinates	41°51′2″N 87°57′11″W / 41.85056°N 87.95306°W / 41.85056; -87.95306Coordinates: 41°51′2″N 87°57′11″W / 41.85056°N 87.95306°W / 41.85056; -87.95306
Opening date	1962
Developer	Philip M. Klutznick
Management	General Growth Properties
Owner	General Growth Properties & CalPERS
No. of stores and services	160 [1]
No. of anchor tenants	6
Total retail floor area	2,018,000 ft² [2]
Parking	12,500 [3]
No. of floors	2
Website	oakbrookcenter.com

Oakbrook Center is an upscale super-regional shopping center located near Interstate 88 in Oak Brook, Illinois. It was originally opened in 1962 and has become the largest open-air center in the contiguous United States (the Ala Moana Center in Hawaii is larger) with over 160 stores and restaurants.^{[citation needed]} Managed and co-owned by General Growth Properties, it is the second largest shopping center in the Chicago area, by gross leasable area.^[1] Current anchor stores include Bloomingdale's Home, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, (formerly Marshall Field's), Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Sears.

History

Oakbrook Center, originally to be named Oakbrook Terrace (but the name was changed when a town near the mall took that name), opened in 1962 with Sears and Marshall Field's, as well as a Jewel Food Store. Bonwit Teller was later added, as was Lord & Taylor in 1973 on the south side. I. Magnin, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus joined the center in a 1981-1982 expansion that doubled the physical size of the center with a new southeast court.

In 1987, a four-screen movie theater (which closed in 2001) was added near Saks Fifth Avenue. Bonwit Teller closed their location in 1990, while I. Magnin was shuttered in January 1991, with its former site subdivided in 1994 for specialty stores, including Eddie Bauer and Tiffany & Company. In 1991 a new two-story, open-air addition opened northeast of Sears. Built on top of a parking garage it added 210,000 ft² of mall retail and a 220,000 ft² Nordstrom.

Saks Fifth Avenue closed their store in 2002 and sold the store to Federated Department Stores, which used the site to open a Bloomingdale's Home store on September 12, 2003. Marshall Field's adopted the Macy's name on September 8, 2006.

General Growth Properties acquired a half-interest and management of the mall in 2004, when it acquired The Rouse Company (which had itself acquired its stake the mall in 2002). It is co-owned with an institutional investor, the California Public Employees' Retirement System.

The sales tax rate for Oak Brook, Illinois (DuPage County) is 7.75%.

Anchors & major retailers

• Bloomingdale's Home (91,634 ft²)
• Crate & Barrel (57,899 ft²)
• H & M (15,621 ft²)
• Lord & Taylor (101,997 ft²)
• Macy's (375,764 ft²)
• Mark Shale (24,201 ft²)
• Neiman Marcus (112,099 ft²)
• Nordstrom (220,036 ft²)
• Pottery Barn (26,011 ft² total, Pottery Barn - 18,011 ft², Pottery Barn Kids - 8,000 ft²)
• Sears (284,048 ft²)

Restaurants

Antico Posto Auntie Anne's Baisi Thai Braxton Seafood Grill California Pizza Kitchen The Cheesecake Factory Club 2100 The Clubhouse

Corner Bakery Cafe Elliotts' Off Broadway Deli Gloria Jean's Godiva Houlihan's Marketplace at Macy's The Bistro at Macy's Maggiano's Little Italy

Mon Ami Gabi Moonstruck Chocolate Café The Zodiac at Neiman Marcus Espresso Bar at Nordstrom Café Nordstrom Reel Club Sbarro Starbucks

Stir Crazy Subway Wildfire

References

1. ^ "Largest Shopping Malls in the United States (2006)". American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University. http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/MallsLarge.htm. 

External links

• Website
• Encyclopedia of Chicago entry
• Oakbrook Center Review