Westfield West Covina

infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = Westfield West Covina

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location = West Covina, California, USA
opening_date = 1975
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manager = The Westfield Group
owner = The Westfield Group
number_of_stores = 208 [ [http://www.westfield.com/westcovina/ourstores/ Westfield - Our Stores ] ]
number_of_anchors = 4
floor_area = 1.2 million ft²
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website = [http://www.westfield.com/westcovina westfield.com/westcovina]
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Westfield West Covina, formerly The Plaza at West Covina, and before that the West Covina Fashion Plaza, is a shopping mall in West Covina, California, owned by The Westfield Group. Its anchor stores are JCPenney, Macy's, and Sears.

Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to The Westfield Group acquired the shopping center in 1998, and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown West Covina", dropping the "Shoppingtown" name in June 2005.

Westfield owns the nearby Westfield Eastland as well.

History

The West Covina Fashion Plaza, as it was originally called, opened in the mid 70's to great fanfare. It was a downtown redevelopment project that basically tore down an existing center keeping Desmonds and The Broadway. The new center paralleled the San Bernardino Freeway and added new anchors JCPenney and Bullock's in an enclosed mall with The Broadway (Desmonds was not connected to the mall next to the Broadway store). Desmonds folded in the late 1970s and the two level store became a Tower Records location. In 1992-1993, a new wing anchored by Robinsons-May was constructed east of the Bullock's store. The first major anchor changes didn't come until 1996, when Federated Department Stores sold The Broadway store to Sears, and converted the Bullock's location to Macy's. Sears opened their new location in 1997, moving from a neabry stand-alone location in Covina. On September 9 2006, Federated renamed the old Robinsons-May store as Macy's and temporarily operated two stores at the mall. In 2007 the Macy's in the former Robinsons-May location was expanded and remodeled and in early 2008, Macy's West Covina store was consolidated into that building. The former Macy's (Bullock's) location had already been sold to The Westfield Group and closed in March 2008. Demolition of the 144,527-square-foot building begin early October 2008, and plans are underway to convert the space into additional mall space as well as a Best Buy and five restaurants. [cite news
title = Macy's site demolished at Westfield West Covina
work = San Gabriel Valley Tribune
publisher = MediaNews Group
date = 2008-10-01
url = http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_10614601
accessdate = 2008-10-02]

Tower Records closed in late 2006.

Anchors

*JCPenney (193,963 sq. ft.)
*Macy's (180,000 sq. ft.)
*Best Buy (opening 2008)
*Sears (137,820 sq. ft.)

References

External links

* [http://www.westfield.com/westcovina/ Official Westfield West Covina website]