Sunvalley Mall
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Sunvalley Mall is a regional shopping center located in Concord, California (one of the suburbs in the San Francisco Bay Area, in east central Contra Costa County). Sunvalley opened in August of 1967 with JCPenney and Macy's as anchor tenants. The mall was attached to a pre-existing free-standing Sears store that was built several years earlier. At its opening it was considered the largest air conditioned regional shopping center in the world.
Sunvalley is located at Willow Pass Road, Contra Costa Boulevard, and Interstate 680. It was developed by the Taubman Company, which is still the owner and operator of the mall to this day. The mall's major department stores are two separate locations for Macys, and one each for Sears and JCPenney. Sunvalley has 170 stores and a total size of about 1.4 million square feet.
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[edit] 1985 Sunvalley plane crash
On the evening of December 23, 1985, two days before Christmas, a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, executing a missed instrument approach procedure from an approach to runway 19R of Buchanan Field Airport, lost control and crashed into the roof of Macys, killing the pilot and two passengers and seriously injuring 84 Christmas shoppers in the crowded mall below, mainly by spraying them with burning fuel. Four of the victims on the ground later died from their injuries. The accident brought increased local opposition to the airport, and caused Pacific Southwest Airlines (now part of US Airways) to cancel scheduled passenger service that had been planned for the new year.
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[edit] References
- Oakland Tribune, July 30, 1967, page 14
- Check-Six.com - The Crash at SunValley Mall - Lots of photographs
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Incorporated places
Population over 100,000: Concord • Richmond
Population 50,000 – 100,000: Antioch • Pittsburg • Walnut Creek
Population under 50,000: Martinez (County seat) • Brentwood • Clayton • Danville • El Cerrito • Hercules • Lafayette • Moraga • Oakley • Orinda • Pinole • Pleasant Hill • San Pablo • San Ramon
Census-designated places
Alamo • Bay Point • Bayview-Montalvin • Bethel Island • Blackhawk-Camino Tassajara • Byron • Clyde • Crockett • Diablo • Discovery Bay • East Richmond Heights • El Sobrante • Kensington • Knightsen • Mountain View • Pacheco • Port Costa • Rodeo • Rollingwood • Tara Hills • Vine Hill • Waldon
Other unincorporated communities
Canyon • North Richmond • Selby • Tormey • Dougherty Valley
School districts
Acalanes Union High • Antioch Unified • Brentwood Union • Byron Union • Canyon • Knightsen • Lafayette • Liberty Union High • Martinez Unified • Moraga • Mt. Diablo Unified • Oakley Union Elem. • Orinda Union • Pittsburg Unified • San Ramon Valley Unified • J. Swett Unified • Walnut Creek • West Contra Costa Unified
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