Antelope Valley Mall

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Antelope Valley Mall

Location	Palmdale, California, USA
Opening date	September 1990
Management	ForestCity
Owner	ForestCity Enterprises
No. of stores and services	140
No. of anchor tenants	6
Total retail floor area	1,000,000 ft²
Parking	10,000 spaces
No. of floors	1
Website	www.av-mall.com

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 (90,000 m²). 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 planned 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, Gottschalks with 2 pads (one for women, and another for men, home, and children), and a pad under renovation, vacated by the former 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, Silver Depot, 24 Hour Fitness, Pier 1 Imports, Guitar Center, Sundance Spa, Ladies First Gym, Keller Williams, and Sears Auto Center. The line along the mall's ring road which provides access to the mall's parking. There is also a Shell gasoline station. A new Hilton Garden Inn is opening soon.

The mall as of 2007 is going through an extensive renovation that has moved the old 10 screen theater to a replacement Cinemark 16 screen "stadium style seating" theater in the north ring road area on Avenue O-8. The vacated theater pad will house new restaurants and a new corridor is being built along it for another 31 stores. The Antelope Valley Mall currently has major retail stores like Aéropostale, Hollister Co., New York & Company, Lane Bryant, American Eagle Outfitters, Anchor Blue, Old Navy, Tilly's, Build-a-Bear Workshop, Zumiez, Hot Topic, and more.

[edit] Dining

The mall has a selection of dining establishments, including "Restaurant Row," which is a selection of reastauants including Arby's, Denny's, Chili's, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, El Torito, Cold Stone Creamery, Famous Dave's, Johnny Carino's, On the Border Mexican Grill, BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse and a new Romi's Fine French Dining. Soon, a Claim Jumper will housed in the space recently vacated by the Cinemark Theaters, along with two other restaurants.

[edit] Anchors

Dillard's (148,000 sq ft)
Gottschalks East (Men's, Home, and Children, 113,000 sq ft; Former Harris store)
Gottschalks West (Women's store, 115,000 sq ft)
JCPenney (114,000 sq ft)
Mervyn's (76,000 sq ft)
Sears (132,000 sq ft)