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Winrock Shopping Center was a shopping mall located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. During its final years, the center was anchored by two Dillard's, Sports Authority, and Bed Bath and Beyond. Currently the mall is being redeveloped as Winrock Town Center, which will be an open-air, mixed-use complex. ==History== In 1961, Winrock Shopping center was completed as a joint venture between soon-to-be Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller and the University of New Mexico on a sandy lot at the edge of I-40. The development included a covered shopping center (the first for Albuquerque and New Mexico) with Safeway, J.C. Penney, Fedway and Montgomery Ward. A freestanding movie theater and attached motor hotel opened in 1963. The mall was built as an outdoor shopping hub with a screened canopy roof above the main stretch of the mall and acres of parking on all sides. This design allowed for a pleasant shopping experience in the dry summer heat as well as the cold high-desert winters. The 82 acre mall site was bounded by the busy I-40 freeway to the south, with off-ramps to Louisiana Boulevard to the west. In 1971, Winrock Center was featured in the American International Pictures release ''Bunny O'Hare'', which starred Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine. In the film, the two ride a motorcycle through the mall while escaping from a bank robbery. Shortly after Winrock’s opening, competition moved in a few blocks away. Coronado Center was dedicated in March 1965. Dillard's established their first store at Winrock in late 1971, when they rebranded the existing Fedway location. Soon after, a new store was built as a replacement. Bealls was added in 1985.〔https://books.google.com/books?id=gLpYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22winrock+center%22+%22Bealls%22&dq=%22winrock+center%22+%22Bealls%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gBP-VJMBh6DJBPWQgYgM&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA〕 This space later became Oshman's and is now Sports Authority. In the early 1990s, a second Dillard's was added to the mall. The first location became a Women's Store, with the new building housing a Men's and Children's Store. Beginning in the late 1990s, the mall began a steep decline and vacancy rates began to climb. By 2005, tenants' leases were not renewed in anticipation of redevelopment of the property.〔(Neighborhood is courted with new Winrock vision )〕 By the turn of the century, the mall was clearly dead and decaying rapidly. The only remaining stores were the two Dillard’s, Bed, Bath and Beyond, and a Sports Authority, each of which owned their respective spaces. The mostly abandoned shopping center was used as a set for the filming of the 2009 American comedy film ''Observe and Report''〔() ''Observe and Report Review'' 18 Mar 2009.〕 and the 2013 American Mystery film/Thriller ''Odd Thomas''〔(). ''On Location Casting'' 11 Aug 2011.〕 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「Winrock Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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