Westfield West Covina

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Westfield West Covina


Location	West Covina, California, USA
Opening date	1975
Management	The Westfield Group
Owner	The Westfield Group
No. of stores and services	208 ^[1]
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	1.2 million ft²
Website	westfield.com/westcovina

Westfield West Covina, formerly The Plaza at West Covina, and before that the West Covina Fashion Plaza, is a shopping mall in West Covina, California, owned by The Westfield Group. Its anchor stores are JCPenney, Macy's, and Sears.

Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to The Westfield Group acquired the shopping center in 1998, and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown West Covina", dropping the "Shoppingtown" name in June 2005.

Westfield owns the nearby Westfield Eastland as well.

1 History
2 Anchors
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The West Covina Fashion Plaza, as it was originally called, opened in the mid 70's to great fanfare. It was a downtown redevelopment project that basically tore down an existing center keeping Desmonds and The Broadway. The new center paralleled the San Bernardino Freeway and added new anchors JCPenney and Bullock's in an enclosed mall with The Broadway (Desmonds was not connected to the mall next to the Broadway store). Desmonds folded in the 1980s and the two level store became a Tower Records location. In 1992-1993, a new wing anchored by Robinsons-May was constructed east of the Bullock's store. The first major anchor changes didn't come until 1996, when Federated Department Stores sold The Broadway store to Sears, and converted the Bullock's location to Macy's. Sears opened their new location in 1997, moving from a neabry stand-alone location in Covina. On September 9, 2006, Federated renamed the old Robinsons-May store as Macy's and temporarily operated two stores at the mall. In 2007 the Macy's in the former Robinsons-May location was expanded and remodeled and in early 2008, Macy's West Covina store was consolidated into that building. The former Macy's (Bullock's) location had already been sold to The Westfield Group and plans are underway to convert the space into additional mall space as well as a Best Buy.

Also, a Tower Records that wasn't appreciated whatsoever until its closing (which afterward left hundreds of teenagers with no-where to meet and begin a mall adventure), went under around Christmas time 2006.