Oakbrook Center
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| Oakbrook Center | |
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| Location | Oak Brook, Illinois |
| 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 United States. 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, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Sears.
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[edit] 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 latter 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 opened a Bloomingdale's Home store on September 13, 2003. Marshall Field's adopted the Macy's name on September 9, 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%.
[edit] Anchors & Major Stores
- Abercrombie & Fitch (17,302 ft² total, Abercrombie & Fitch - 12,200 ft², Abercombie Kids - 5,102 ft²)
- Banana Republic (12,046 ft²)
- Bloomingdale's Home (91,634 ft²)
- Crate & Barrel (57,899 ft²)
- Eddie Bauer (41,503 ft²)
- Express Dual Gender (21,233 ft²)
- Gap (15,213 ft² total, Gap - 7,575 ft², Gap Kids - 7,638 ft²)
- H & M (15,621 ft²)
- Lane Bryant (11,599 ft²)
- Lord & Taylor (101,997 ft²)
- Macy's (375,764 ft²)
- Mario Tricoci Hair Salon (16,271 ft²)
- Mark Shale (24,201 ft²)
- Neiman Marcus (112,099 ft²)
- Nordstrom (220,036 ft²)
- Pottery Barn (18,011 ft²)
- Restoration Hardware (12,480 ft²)
- Sears (284,048 sq. ft.)
- Talbots (21,313 ft² total, Talbots Women's Accesseries & Shoes and Petites - 12,786 ft², Talbots Men's - 4,371 ft², Talbots Kids & Babies - 4,156 ft²)
- Tiffany & Co. (10,000 ft²)
- Urban Outfitters (10,353 ft²)
- Victoria's Secret/Bath & Body Works (24,525 ft²)
- Z Gallerie (10,551 ft²)
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[edit] References
- ^ Largest Shopping Malls in the United States (2006). American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University.
