El Con Mall
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| El Con Mall | |
| Mall facts and statistics | |
|---|---|
| Location | Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| No. of stores and services | 11 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1.2 million ft² (GLA)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | http://www.shopelcon.com/ |
El Con Mall is the oldest and first enclosed shopping mall in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Located in midtown Tucson, El Con Mall has historical significance as the city's first major retail center located outside of downtown (it opened in 1962). El Con is also significant as it occupies the former site of the expansive El Conquistador Hotel. The mall is designed to reflect the Spanish architectural influence of the El Conquistador Hotel, with its main entrance modeled after the historic hotel's front entrance facade.
The mall is undergoing renovations and updating to meet the consumer needs of the growing Tucson metropolitan area. This process has been controversial in some of its particulars,[1] and remains incomplete. El Con features a 20 screen cineplex, and the "big box" stores Target and Home Depot have been added along with mall's periphery, with separate outside entrances. The mall's interior, however, has dwindled in both size and tenancy over the last decade, and is now largely empty except for a Radio Shack. El Con Mall once included Goldwater's, an upscale department store owned by the family of politician Barry Goldwater.
[edit] Anchor Stores
- Century Theatres (77,617 sq. ft.)
- Home Depot (105,580 sq. ft.)
- JCPenney (208,034 sq. ft.)
- Macy's (291,367 sq. ft.)
- Target (124,034 sq. ft.)
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