Westfield Fox Valley

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Westfield Fox Valley
View from Southwest parking lot

Location	Aurora, Illinois, USA
Opening date	1975
Developer	Metropolitan Structures, Inc./ Westbrook Venture
Management	The Westfield Group
Owner	The Westfield Group
No. of stores and services	150
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	1.4 million ft²
No. of floors	2
Website	http://westfield.com/foxvalley

Westfield Fox Valley, formerly Fox Valley Center, is a shopping mall in Aurora, Illinois. Its four anchor stores are Carson Pirie Scott, JCPenney, Macy's and Sears.

Its original anchors included Lord & Taylor, which closed in 1996 and sold its store to Carson Pirie Scott. The Marshall Field's store was renamed Macy's on September 9, 2006.

The Westfield Group acquired the shopping center in early 2002, and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown Fox Valley", dropping the "Shoppingtown" name in June 2005.

1 Anchors
2 History
3 Gallery
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Anchors

Carson Pirie Scott (115,960 sq ft.) store was expanded into nearby vacant storefronts after Carson's moved in.
JCPenney (206,937 sq ft.)
Macy's (229,558 sq ft.)
Sears (316,000 sq ft.)^[1]

[edit] History

Original planning was started in 1968 by Urban Investment and Development Company; a prototype called Environ 2000. The first plans had 640 acres (2.6 km²) for development as a planned community to help minimize suburban sprawl.

Original Logo of the Fox Valley Center Mall, changed when it became Westfield Fox Valley

When construction was ready to start in June 1973 the planned unit development was 4,220 acres (17.1 km²) of land between Naperville and Aurora. Fox Valley Center and Villages developers were Metropolitan Structures, Inc., and Westbrook Venture.

The Fox Valley Mall is a 1,500,000-square-foot (139,000 m²) enclosed mall, opened and completed in 1975. Sears and Marshall Field's opened first, followed by JCPenney, Lord & Taylor (now Carson Pirie Scott) and 150 other shops and services.^[2]

This was later followed by marketing for home builders and office development in the area marketed as Fox Valley Villages.

Sales at the mall were stated at $115 million in 1977.^[3]

After Westfield's purchase of the mall, all the signs and usage of the Fox Valley Center logo was discontinued and replaced with Westfield's standard mall brand logo, with the shortened Fox Valley name. In the same time period there was an extensive renovation of the mall for the first time in its history.

[edit] Gallery

The carousel and food court.	View from the lower level.	View from the upper level looking down at the animated water fountain.	A jungle gym in the children's play area.
Distant view from the Southwest.

[edit] References

^ Fox Valley Mall - directory various years prior to Westfield ownership 'information on occupants'
^ The DuPage Magazine, October 1978, pages 14-16 ' background on the construction of Fox Valley Mall'
^ The DuPage Magazine, October 1978, page 17 ' early sales figure'

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