Westfield MainPlace
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| Location | Santa Ana, California, USA |
| Opening date | September 26, 1987 |
| Developer | JMB Property |
| Management | The Westfield Group |
| Owner | The Westfield Group |
| No. of stores and services | 175[1] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2[1] |
| Total retail floor area | 1,109,800sq.ft.[1] |
| Parking | 5,300 [1] |
| No. of floors | 3 |
| Website | http://westfield.com/mainplace |
Westfield MainPlace, formerly known as MainPlace Santa Ana and sometimes colloquially as Main Place Mall, is an indoor tri-level, 1.1 million sq. ft. shopping center located on the far north side of Santa Ana, California. The regional mall comprises 190 stores, 15 fast food shops, and five restaurants with Nordstrom and Macy's as current anchors. JCPenney will open a store in 2007.
[edit] History
The location where MainPlace stands was the site of a Bullock's department store built in 1954. In 1958 Santa Ana Fashion Square was built adjoining the store. The small plaza, which totalled only 35 stores, acquired an I. Magnin in 1978. In 1986 the plaza, except for the original Bullock's store was razed and a new enclosed mall constructed.
With its September 26, 1987 opening by developer JMB Property, the new MainPlace Santa Ana, with new anchors Nordstrom, May Company and J.W. Robinson's as well as the existing Bullock's became a leading regional shopping mall in Orange County. May Company and Robinson's were merged in 1993 to former Robinsons-May and retained both locations, operating one as a women's store and the other as a men's and home location. The Bullock's location was renamed Macy's in 1996. JMB Property eventually became Urban Shopping Centers, Inc., which was acquired by Rodamco North America, N.V., a Netherlands-based property firm in 2000.
Acquired by The Westfield Group in 2002 from the dissolution of the Rodamco group, the center was renamed "Westfield Shoppingtown MainPlace". The "Shoppingtown" was dropped from the name in June 2005.
In March 2006, following the merger of Macy's owner Federated Department Stores and Robinsons-May parent May Department Store, both Robinsons-May locations were closed and the north location and the freehold of the existing Macy's store (former Bullock's) were sold to Westfield. Westfield subsequently announced that the north store would be reopened by JCPenney in 2007, while Macy's (which had retained ownership) would reopen a men's and home store in the south location in late 2006.
Westfield has tentative plans to redevelop the center to fit modern retail and entertainment trends. Eventually it is expected the former Robinsons-May location at the south end of the mall will be expanded to accommodate a full-line Macy's, and the existing Macy's building, dating from 1954, will be demolished for a lifetsyle and entertainment center. No official announcements have been made to date, only discussions with local planning and zoning authorities.[1]
