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The Block at Orange (built on the former site of The City Shopping Center) is an open-air shopping mall developed by The Mills Corporation and owned by Simon Property Group in Orange, California, a few miles southeast of Disneyland near the heart of the Orange Crush interchange. It is popular with teenage skateboarders, housing Vans skatepark. It is also popular for its nightlife because of its AMC 30 Movie Theater, Lucky Strike Lanes, Dave & Buster's, Cafe Tu Tu Tango, a bar featuring art work and salsa dancing and Alcatraz, a San Francisco themed brewpub named after - and borrowing some themes from - the former prison at Alcatraz Island.
Prior to 1998, the site was home to an enclosed mall called The City Shopping Center, featuring anchor stores May Company California and JC Penney, anchoring The City edge city complex. Mills purchased the site, originally considering conversion to an outlet mall named "CityMills," but instead built an outdoor lifestyle center after seeing the success of the Irvine Spectrum. The center's old slogan was The Block at Orange... It Isn't Square.
It was The Mills Corporation's first outdoor mall to not have the "Mills" name.
The Virgin Megastore was featured in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan where Borat attempts to kidnap Pamela Anderson.
[edit] Anchors and majors
- Alcatraz Brewing Co. (10,491 sq ft (975 m²))
- AMC Theatres (112,830 sq ft (10,482 m²))
- Borders Books & Music (25,088 sq ft (2,331 m²))
- Dave & Buster's (59,955 sq ft (5,570 m²))
- Hilo Hattie (20,000 sq ft (2,000 m²))
- Lucky Strike Lanes (25,015 sq ft (2,324 m²))
- Off 5th Saks Fifth Avenue (31,368 sq ft (2,914 m²))
- Old Navy (15,722 sq ft (1,461 m²))
- Ron Jon Surf Shop (25,782 sq ft (2,395 m²))
- Steve & Barry's (37,886 sq ft (3,520 m²))
- The Powerhouse (20,278 sq ft (1,884 m²))
- Vans Skate Park (42,355 sq ft (3,935 m²))
- Virgin Megastore (22,196 sq ft (2,062 m²))
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