Antelope Valley Mall

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The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California.

Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet. Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0.5 by 0.5 miles (800 by 800 m).

The main indoor mall currently has about 140 stores. It presently has 6 anchor stores. A seventh, Robinsons-May, was in the works but did not surface as that chain's parent company was bought out by Macy's. The other anchor stores are JC Penney, Sears, Mervyn's, Harris-Gottschalks with 2 pads (one for women, and another for men & kids), and a Cinemark 10 screen movie theater. It also has the first Dillard's location in Southern California. There are also another 23 stores, like Men's Wearhouse, 24 Hour Fitness and Pier 1 Imports, and restaurants like Denny's, Chili's, Red Lobster, and Olive Garden, that line along the mall's ring road which provides access to the mall's parking. There is also a Shell gasoline station.

The mall as of 2005 is going through an extensive renovation that will move the current 10 screen theater to a replacement 16 screen "stadium style seating" one in the north ring road area. The theater pad being vacated will house the new Robinsons-May (becoming Macy's in Fall 2006) and a new corridor will be built along it for the other 31 stores.