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Westfield Palm Desert, is a regional shopping mall located in Palm Desert, California which serves the Coachella Valley. The mall is presently owned through a joint venture between O'Connor Capital Partners and Westfield Corporation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PALM DESERT: Westfield to sell interest in Palm Desert mall )〕 Current mall anchors are Macy's, Sears, JCPenney, Dick's Sporting Goods, Barnes & Noble, and 140 inline stores. In addition, the mall includes a food court and Cinémas Palme d'Or theater.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Westfield Palm Desert )〕 The shopping center was developed by Ernest W. Hahn in 1982 and opened as Town Center Mall. The $75 million project spanned 62 acres and included four major department stores, 130 inline shops, an 8-screen theater, a food court and an indoor ice skating rink. Other stores included "What's Up" and The Balboa Beach Company. A small arcade called The Yellow Brick Road was on the second level above the skating rink, next to the food court. Original anchor stores were Bonwit Teller, I. Magnin, JCPenney, and The May Company. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Palm Springs History - The Developers, Ernest Hahn )〕 A fifth anchor, J.W. Robinson's, was added in 1983.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Department Store Museum: The J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles )〕 The name later changed to Palm Desert Town Center. In August 1999, Westfield America, Inc., announced it had acquired Palm Desert Town Center from TrizecHahn Corporation for $82 million. Following the acquisition, the name became Westfield Shoppingtown Palm Desert. However, in 2005 the company migrated away from this branding strategy and dropped 'Shoppingtown' from most of its U.S. properties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Business: If you didn't call them 'shoppingtowns,' don't )〕 The mall became Westfield Palm Desert. Over the years the mall has gone through many changes resulting from various mergers and acquisitions in the retail industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Palm Desert Mall Then and Now: A Retrospective )〕 This resulted in consolidation of regional department stores and ultimately led to vacant anchor spaces at the mall. In 2013, a renovation plan began which involved converting a two-level vacant anchor space on the north side to Dick's Sporting Goods (upper level) and World Gym on the first level of the space. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City Profiles - Palm Desert )〕 In addition, a partially vacant two-level anchor on the south side was converted into a Grand Entrance with frontage on California State Route 111, a busy thoroughfare running through the city. The demolition involved preservation of the subterranean level of the space previously occupied by Bullock's. Macy's incorporated this space into its existing furniture store which is situated below Barnes & Noble. The Grand Entrance includes new sit-down restaurants and retail space and is accented with decorative water fountains. An expansion plan announced in 2006 included the addition of a full line Nordstrom department store on the north and a significant remodel and expansion of the existing theater.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Imaginary Landscape )〕 The plan never came to fruition given the economic downturn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Plans To Build Nordstrom In Palm Desert Scrapped )〕 It is not known if Nordstrom or mall owners still have an interest in this project. As of December 2014, Westfield Palm Desert featured 151 specialty stores and was 95.1 percent leased. The 980,041-square-foot mall offers 495,538-square-feet of specialty store space and has significant potential for future expansion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Centres - Westfield Corp )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Westfield Palm Desert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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