Mayagüez Mall

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Mayagüez Mall

Location	Off PR I-2 Mayagüez and Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, United States
Opening date	1973
Owner	Empresas Villamil
No. of stores and services	+150 and 1 Heliport
No. of anchor tenants	5
Total retail floor area	1,100,000 s.f.
Parking	over 6,000 spaces
No. of floors	1

Mayagüez Mall is a shopping mall located between the municipalities of Mayagüez and Hormigueros. It is the third largest shopping center in Puerto Rico with a total of 1.1 million s.f. of retail space, and the main shopping center in western Puerto Rico, followed by Western Plaza also in Mayaguez, Aguadilla Mall and Plaza del Oeste in San German. Its Main Stores include: Sears, JCPenney, Wal-Mart, Marshalls and Borders, among others. Also there is a heliport within the mall property.

1 History
- 1.1 Today
2 Main Stores
3 External links

[edit] History

The mall was opened in the 1970s, when two of its current three concourses were opened. During that time, its main tenants were Woolworth's and Sears. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the mall went under extensive renovations, including the construction of its third and largest concourse, anchored by JCPenney. One of the mall's lesser entrances was later expanded to connect to Wal-Mart which opened in the mid 1990s. A Gonzalez Padin department store once anchored the Sears councourse, but it closed in the mid 1990s when the parent company went bankrupt. It's former space is occupied today by Sears Brand Central.

[edit] Today

Mayagüez Mall today is still the most important shopping hub in western Puerto Rico, however it has gone under little or no renovations since the 1990s and the mall now suffers from old infrastructure problems.