Town Center at Corte Madera

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Town Center Corte Madera

Location	Corte Madera, California, United States
Opening date	1958
Management	Madison Marquette
Owner	Morgan Stanley
No. of stores and services	68 ^[1]
No. of anchor tenants	2
Total retail floor area	370,151 Square Feet
No. of floors	1
Website	shoptowncenter.com

The Town Center Corte Madera is an upscale shopping center located in Corte Madera, California. It is located off U.S. Route 101 on Tamalpais Drive. It is anchored by a Safeway supermarket and Barnes and Noble. It is located across the freeway from The Village at Corte Madera and the two shopping centers provide much of the city of Corte Madera's income from retail sales tax. The Town Center is owned by 770 Tamalpais Drive, Inc. The owner of that corporation is Morgan Stanley^[2]

1 History
2 Anchors and major tenants
- 2.1 Stores
- 2.2 Restaurants
3 References

[edit] History

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The Town Center can be called the successor to the Corte Madera Center (CMC), which opened in 1958 next to Littleman's Supermarket (later Cala Foods) which opened in 1952 and closed in 1985 and was located where P.F. Chang's is..^[3] Louis Thomas, a men's apparel and formalwear shop that opened in 1958, is the oldest surviving tenant.^[4] In 1985 CMC was largely re-developed,re-named Town Center Corte Madera, with anchor Montgomery Ward having closed, J.C. Penney adding a second story and then closing in 2000. There was a Good Guys, but it was bought out by CompUSA, and the location closed. It now houses a P. F. Chang's China Bistro.

There was substantial local controversy in 2005 and 2006 when it became known that Barnes and Noble would be moving into the space vacated by Marshall's, since one of Marin County's largest independent book stores was nearby.^[5]