Westfield West Covina

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Westfield West Covina

Location	West Covina, California, USA
Opening date	1975
Management	The Westfield Group
Owner	The Westfield Group
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	1.2 million ft²
Website	http://westfield.com/westcovina

Westfield West Covina, formerly The Plaza at West Covina, and before that the West Covina Fashion Plaza, is a shopping mall in West Covina, California, owned by The Westfield Group. Its anchor stores are JCPenney, Macy's (Formerly Robinsons-May), and Nordstrom. Robinsons-May was renamed Macy's on September 9, 2006. The former Macy's location was liquidated and closed at an as of yet unannounced date. Federated Department Stores, parent of both Macy's and Robinsons-May has already agreed to sell the store building to Westfield.

Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to The Westfield Group acquired the shopping center in 1998, and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown West Covina", dropping the "Shoppingtown" name in June 2005.

Westfield owns the nearby Westfield Eastland as well.

[edit] History

The West Covina Fashion Plaza, as it was originally called, opened in the mid 70's to great fanfare. It was a downtown redevelopment project that basically tore down an existing center keeping Desmonds and The Broadway. The new center paralleled the San Bernardino Freeway and anchors JCPenney and Bullocks filled as new anchors (Desmonds was not connected to the mall next to the Broadway store). Desmonds folded in the 80's and the two level store became a Tower Records location. In 1992, an expasion was started that added a new Robinsons-May wing to the east end of the mall from the Bullocks store. The first major anchor changes didn't come until 1996, when Federated Department Stores sold the Broadway store to Sears, and converted the Bullocks location to Macy's. Sears opened their new location in 1997, moving from a stand alone location in Covina. On September 9, 2006, Macys christened the old Robinsons-May store as Macys and plans are to convert the existing Macys (former Bullocks) to a Home and Mens store.