Antelope Valley Mall
 The Antelope Valley Mall in the foreground. | |
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| Location | 1233 Rancho Vista Boulevard Palmdale, California 93551 |
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| Coordinates | 34°36′17″N 118°09′09″W / 34.60472°N 118.15250°W |
| Opening date | September 1990 |
| Developer | Forest City Enterprises |
| Management | Spinoso Real Estate Group |
| Owner | Mershops |
| No. of stores and services | 140 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 7 (5 open, 2 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in Dillard's) |
| Parking | 10,000 spaces |
| Website | www.av-mall.com |
Antelope Valley Mall is a single-level, regional enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California, United States, in the Antelope Valley.
Opened in September 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (93,000 m2). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0.5 by 0.5 miles (800 by 800 m).[1]
The main indoor mall currently has about 140 stores with six anchor stores, two of which are vacant - Macy's (formerly Gottschalks), JCPenney, the first Dillard's in Southern California, Sears (closed), Forever 21 (closed, formerly Mervyns), and Dick's Sporting Goods, which opened in 2014 in an anchor originally occupied by Harris and, later, another Gottschalks store under the name Harris-Gottschalks.[2] An Old Navy only accessible from inside the mall serves as a junior anchor. Three other anchors, Bullock's, The Broadway, and J. W. Robinson's, were planned, but never opened.
On June 22, 2020, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 28 stores nationwide. Sears closed on September 6, 2020.[3]
In 2022 the mall was acquired by Bridge Group Investments (now Mershops) for $60 million.[4]
The Dillard's store is the only two-story structure at the mall and is the first and one of two in Southern California, but is also one of three in California, with the others in El Centro at the Imperial Valley Mall and in Stockton at the Weberstown Mall in Northern California.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Chandler, John (December 2, 1991). "Palmdale's Growth Leaves Downtown Behind : Development: In search of more customers and to escape crime, businesses move to newer parts of the city while the center withers". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 3, 2025.
- ^ "Dick's Sporting Goods coming to AV Mall". theavtimes.com.
- ^ Shoulberg, Warren. "Total Sears And Kmart Store Count Going Down To Just 95". Forbes.
- ^ Welk, Hannah Madans (December 12, 2022). "Joint Venture Buys Antelope Valley Mall for $60 Million". San Fernando Valley Business Journal. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ "Store Locations - Dillard's". Dillard's. Retrieved May 24, 2025.