Cherry Creek Shopping Center

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Coordinates: 39°43′01″N 104°57′11″W / 39.71694, -104.95306

Cherry Creek Shopping Center during the holiday season

Cherry Creek Mall Atrium and Playground

Cherry Creek Shopping Center, also known as Cherry Creek Mall, is an upscale shopping mall about three and half miles southeast of downtown Denver, Colorado in the Cherry Creek Neighborhood. It is situated along East First Avenue on the banks of Cherry Creek.

Cherry Creek Shopping Center is one of the premiere shopping destinations in Colorado. It is an enclosed shopping mall housing more than 160 specialty shops and restaurants.

Cherry Creek Mall opened in 1990, and is anchored by four department stores; Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's, and Nordstrom. In early 2009 Macy's department store will be converted to Colorado's first Bloomingdales. Other than the shops in Aspen, Cherry Creek Shopping Center is the exclusive location of several luxury retailers in Colorado, including:

By the summer of 2009 eleven luxury retailers will debut and more than half will be new to the Colorado market.

It is also home to an eight screen movie theatre operated by Kerasotes. The mall is operated by the Taubman Centers company.

1 Anchor History
2 Before the shopping center
3 Best Store in Cherry Creek Award
4 External links

[edit] Anchor History

Nordstrom - (opened 1990 as Lord & Taylor, closed 2005, opened as Nordstrom 2007)
Macy's - (Re-named Macy's in 2006,to become Bloomingdale's Early 2009)
Saks Fifth Avenue - (Opened 1990)
Neiman Marcus - (Opened 1991)

[edit] Before the shopping center

The shopping center is a triumph of mined land reclamation. Before the shopping center, sand was mined from a large pit. After it was mined out, the city used the pit as a sanitary landfill in the 1940s. After the pit was filled with trash, the first Cherry Creek shopping center was built atop the dump. (Matthew J. Sheridan (1970) Urbanization and its Impact on the Mineral Aggregate Industry in the Denver, Colo., Area, US Bureau of Mines, Information Circular 8320)