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Lakewood Center Mall

Lakewood Center Mall

Lakewood Center is a super-regional shopping mall in Lakewood, California. Lakewood Center opened in 1952 and was enclosed in 1978. The interior mall is anchored by Costco, JCPenney, Macy's, a Round One Entertainment center, and Target. Several businesses surround the mall property, including 24 Hou

r Fitness, Albertsons, Best Buy, Burlington, and The Home Depot. At 2,069,000 square feet (192,200 m2), the Lakewood Center is ranked among the largest retail shopping malls by gross leasable area in the United States. History Lakewood Center opened in February 1952, serving the post-war planned community of Lakewood. The mall was originally anchored by two department stores, a large May Company and a much smaller three-level, 88,000 square-foot Butler Brothers. Upon opening on February 18, 1952, the four-level, 346,700-square-foot (32,210 m2) May Company-Lakewood was the largest suburban department store in the world. New stores were built around 1954-1955 in a section of the mall called the Faculty Shops, though they were not connected to the mall proper. 1965 brought two new department stores to the property: a four-level Bullock's and a two-level Buffums, both in standalone locations outside of the mall. Two years later, the existing mall was expanded to accommodate a two-level, 173,000 square-foot JCPenney store on the mall's south end. A standalone Pacific Theatres two-screen cinema opened in the mall's parking lot in 1968, which was later expanded to four screens in 1975. Th

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