Mills Corporation
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| Type | {{{company_type}}} |
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| Founded | 1985 |
| Headquarters | Chevy Chase, Maryland |
| Products | Real Estate-Shopping Malls |
| Website | www.themills.com |
The Mills Corporation (NYSE: MLS) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The company develops, owns, and operates super-regional shopping malls. Mills has developed a large percentage of their own malls which usually include the title "Mills" as part of the name. The exceptions are those malls the company has acquired in recent years such as Del Amo Fashion Center and Southdale Mall. Those malls are called "21st Century Retail Malls." International properties are malls located throughout the world, including: Vaughan Mills, St. Enoch Centre, Madrid Xanadu, and Mercati Generali (opening 2008)
The company started in 1985 as the Western Development Company, and its first mall was Potomac Mills in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The company had its IPO in 1994 as MLS, The Mills Corporation. [1] [2]
Most Mills facilities have a large movie theater with at least 14 screens, and a large, or even two, food courts. Their facilities are normally built in modern/abstract architectural designs.
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[edit] Muggsy's meadow
Through a partnership with Flying Rhinoceros, Inc., The Mills Corporation features "Muggsy's Meadow" at many of its mall locations. "Muggsy's Meadow" is a family and children-oriented program of live events and cartoons featuring the animated characters created by Flying Rhino. According to the Flying Rhinoceros website,
| Muggsy's Meadow is a story about Muggsy Beaver who wandered into an empty meadow and instantly fell in love with the lake and the surrounding view. Over the years other creatures have moved into Muggsy's Meadow creating an amazing neighborhood. |
"Muggsy's Meadow" is a form of edutainment which offers product tie-ins created by Flying Rhino for its "Fraboom Network" of cartoons[3] such as games, coloring books, and DVD movies.[4] Each mall which features "Muggsy's Meadow" has a calendar of events, many of which are sponsored by Mills Corporation partners such as PBS, Discover or Coca-Cola. Events can include family-friendly movie showings, and are often held in or around a mall's foodcourt and children's play areas.
[edit] Operating centers
- Arizona Mills - Tempe (Phoenix), Arizona
- Arundel Mills - Hanover (Baltimore), Maryland
- Briarwood Mall - Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Broward Mall - Plantation, Florida
- Cincinnati Mills - Cincinnati, Ohio
- Colorado Mills - Lakewood (Denver), Colorado
- Concord Mills - Concord (Charlotte), North Carolina
- Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass - Sunrise (Fort Lauderdale), Florida
- Columbus City Center - Downtown Columbus, Ohio
- Del Amo Fashion Center - Torrance (Los Angeles), California
- Discover Mills - Lawrenceville (Atlanta), Georgia
- Dover Mall - Dover, Delaware
- Franklin Mills - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Galleria at White Plains - White Plains (New York City), New York
- Grapevine Mills - Grapevine (Dallas), Texas
- Great Mall of the Bay Area - Milpitas (San Jose), California
- Gurnee Mills - Gurnee (Chicago), Illinois
- Hilltop Mall - Richmond, California
- Katy Mills - Katy (Houston), Texas
- Lakeforest Mall - Gaithersburg (Washington, D.C.), Maryland
- Marley Station - Glen Burnie (Baltimore), Maryland
- Meadowood Mall - Reno, Nevada
- Northpark Mall - Ridgeland, Mississippi
- Ontario Mills - Ontario, California (Los Angeles)
- Opry Mills -Nashville, Tennessee
- Pittsburgh Mills - Tarentum (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania
- Potomac Mills - Woodbridge (Washington, D.C.), Virginia
- The Shops at Riverside Square - Bergen, New Jersey
- Sawgrass Mills - Sunrise, Florida (Fort Lauderdale)
- Southdale Center - Edina (Minneapolis), Minnesota
- Southridge Mall - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Stoneridge Mall - Pleasanton, California
- St. Louis Mills - Hazelwood (St. Louis), Missouri
- The Block at Orange - Orange, California (Anaheim)
- The Esplanade - Kenner (New Orleans), Louisiana
- The Falls - Miami, Florida
- The Mall at Tuttle Crossing - Dublin, Ohio (Columbus, Ohio)
- Westland Mall - Hialeah (Miami), Florida
Formers owners: (Sold to Ivanhoe Cambridge in October 2006)
- Madrid Xanadu - near Madrid, Spain Built in 2003 by The Mills.
- St. Enoch Centre - Glasgow, Scotland Acquired in January 2005.
- Vaughan Mills- (Toronto, Ontario) Built in 2004 and the first Mills landmark outside the U.S., sold share in company in July 2006.
[edit] Under development
[edit] United States
[edit] Italy
- Mercati Generali - Rome, Italy
