Exterior view of MacArthur Center's food court balcony |
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| Location | Norfolk, Virginia, USA |
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| Opening date | March 12, 1999 |
| Owner | Taubman Company |
| No. of stores and services | 140 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 (with room to build 1 more) |
| Total retail floor area | 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m2), including 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m2) retail and 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) food & entertainment |
| No. of floors | 3 |
| Website | www.shopmacarthur.com |
The MacArthur Center is a shopping mall in Norfolk, Virginia, in the center of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area.[1][2] It is majority-owned and operated by the Taubman Company.[3]
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Located in the heart of downtown Norfolk, this 1,100,000-square-foot (100,000 m2) structure is adjacent to the General Douglas MacArthur Memorial. The center is anchored by Nordstrom and Dillard's department stores, with space for a third major anchor tenant. There are 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2) of mall tenant shops and 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of food and entertainment offerings, including a one of a kind Regal MacArthur 18 in which it is situated on the top level along the mall's skylights. In addition to the three-story mall, two 5 level parking decks are provided accommodating 4,000 cars.
The 140-store mall opened in March 1999, with the region's first Nordstrom department store anchor. MacArthur Center was originally compared to other downtown malls, such as Baltimore's Harborplace, Indianapolis' Circle Centre Mall, Atlanta's Phipps Plaza Mall and most comparably to The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City near Washington, D.C., in Arlington, Virginia. Taubman's Cherry Creek Shopping Center, which opened nine years earlier in 1990, has similar skylights and in-mall architecture.
Every winter since 2005, MacArthur Center has operated a 7,200-square-foot (670 m2) ice skating rink on the property.[4]
Since October 19, 2009, MacArthur Center is one of the few malls in Virginia and the one of three in the Taubman Company to implement a Parental Escort Policy that will ban teens under 18 without a 21+ year old escort daily after 5 p.m. This was met with a protesting opposition just before the rule went into effect.[5]
In March 2011, eight of the ten eateries at the mall's Terrace Food Court will close due to their franchisee, HMS Host not renewing leases to the mall. The eight closing stores are:
Sbarro and Charley's, which are not part of HMS Host, will stay open as the only food court eateries until at least summer 2011 when Panda Express and Sakura Elite plans to open then.[6]
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