Ontario Mills

Coordinates: 34°04′26″N 117°33′07″W / 34.073777°N 117.551908°W / 34.073777; -117.551908

Ontario Mills

Ontario Mills Entry 8
Location	Ontario, California, USA
Opening date	November 1996
Developer	Mills Corporation
Owner	Simon Property Group, JPMorgan
No. of stores and services	200
Website	[1]

Ontario Mills is a large enclosed shopping mall, calling itself an outlet mall. It is located in Ontario, California and it is one of the primary tourist attractions in the Inland Empire. It is located across the street from the former site of the Ontario Motor Speedway. Like all other Mills properties, it was first developed and once owned by the Mills Corporation. Ontario Mills is the first Mills landmark to have the racetrack layout and having a theme in its neighborhoods.^{[citation needed]} It is one of three Mills landmarks in California that are now owned by Simon Property Group since April 2007. (The Block at Orange, and Great Mall of the Bay Area are the others) One of the largest shopping malls in North America, the mall opened to the public in 1996. Ontario Mills was designed by the architectural firm, F+A Architects.

The mall is near the Ontario International Airport, as well as the interchange between the Ontario Freeway (Interstate 15) and the San Bernardino Freeway (Interstate 10).

Size

According to the mall's former owners, the Mills Corporation, it is the largest one-level shopping mall in Western North America (there are larger malls, but they have two or more levels).

Like other Mills malls, Ontario Mills is divided into neighborhoods. This mall has the most out of the Mills malls with ten. When shoppers enter at a mall's main entrances at neighborhoods 1,3 5, 6, 8 & 10, the automatic doors continuously play audio reminders of which entrance one used (in both English and Spanish). The use of this audio service has been rare in recent times. The light poles in the parking lots are decorated with large "Where Did You Park?" signs.^{[citation needed]}

Tenants

Some of the mall's major tenants include Hot Topic, a Nike store, a JCPenney outlet store, a Nordstrom Rack, a 30-screen AMC movie theatre (technically a megaplex), dining and entertainment venue, Dave & Buster's and a GameWorks video arcade.

Ontario Mills is home to many designer-label outlet stores, including H&M, Ann Taylor, J.Crew Factory Store, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Bostonian/Clark and Guess?. Saks 5th Avenue has an outlet store, as do Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister Co., Kenneth Cole, Levi's and Dockers (one of only three locations in California), and Coach Factory Store. The china and silverware store, Mikasa, has been phased out with the relocation of GAP Outlet. A Banana Republic Outlet has taken over the old GAP Outlet's space.

The mall also has a large food court, with about 1,000 seats, and all the usual food court tenants like Panda Express, Burger King, and Sbarro; it also carries the only remaining U.S. location of the 1990s chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. Restaurants outside the food court include Rainforest Cafe and Market Broiler.

Ontario Mills was formerly home to a Vans Skate Park, which in early 2005 was closed and converted into Steve & Barry's. Sports Authority closed its 50,111 sq ft (4,655 m²) store in 2004 when the company merged with Gart Sports. The well-known Wolfgang Puck Cafe was taken down in early 2005 to be replaced by the Ralph Lauren Factory Store.

In 2009, Steve & Barry's and Virgin Megastore were closed due to their chains' liquidations.

On January 24, 2011, JCPenney announced it will shut down all 19 of its outlets by June 1, including Ontario Mills location.

Effect on surrounding area

Like some premium outlet centers, Ontario Mills was built in an area that had ample land available. The development of the mall has since contributed to the further urbanization of the Eastern Ontario area.

Gallery

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  Typical entrance to parking lot, featuring lush landscaping

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  Ontario Mills interior

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  The attached AMC Theatres megaplex

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  Ontario Mills sign, Entrance 8

External links

• Ontario Mills
• Mills Corporation