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Westfield Wheaton (originally Wheaton Plaza) is a two-level enclosed shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland. It is owned by The Westfield Group. ==History== Wheaton Plaza opened on February 5, 1960, as a single-level, open-air mall, with Woodward & Lothrop and Montgomery Ward as anchors.〔Feinberg, Samuel. ''(What makes shopping centers tick? )'' p.10 (Fairchild Publications 1960)("Wheaton Plaza, Wheaton, Md., opened 15 of its planned 75 stores in February 1960. Total store space will be . A Woodward & Lothrop store of and a Wards of are the principal tenants. Parking is provided for 5,300 cars.")〕 Developed by Isadore Gudelsky, an entrepreneur who amassed large land tracts funded by his families' Laurel Contee Sand and Gravel Company. It was considered to be the first regional mall in the Washington, D.C., area, and was the largest until the Lerner-Gudelsky development Tysons Corner Center opened in 1968. The 80 acre fruit stand and farm property on Viers Mill Road was purchased in 1954 by six investors which included Gudelsky, and Theodore N. Lerner, who took charge of leases. Wheaton Plaza was the site of the 1975 disappearance of the Lyon Sisters, whose case was never solved. In 1974, a plan to enclose the mall was initiated. The seven-year delay to enclose the mall and anchor expansion by business partner Lerner who also had interests in nearby White Flint Mall caused a $30 million lawsuit between partners. and a new wing, anchored by Hecht's, was built in 1987. Target replaced Montgomery Ward after the latter chain ceased operations. In 2005, the service tunnel beneath the mall was converted to retail space, and Macy's opened a new store, shortly before Macy's owner Federated Department Stores purchased Hecht's owner May Department Stores. The Hecht's store was closed after the May-Federated merger. Temporary anchor IFL Furniture took over the Hecht's location in 2006, and closed in March 2008. DSW Shoe Warehouse opened in the mall in November 2008. In 2010, Costco announced that it would build a new store on the site of the vacant Hecht's; Costco opened in April 2013, in a new building that also contains a Dick's Sporting Goods. 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 Wheaton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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