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The Shops at Santa Anita

The Shops at Santa Anita

The Shops at Santa Anita (formerly known as Westfield Santa Anita and as the Santa Anita Fashion Park) is a super-regional shopping mall located in Arcadia, California, adjacent to the Santa Anita Race Track. History The mall opened as Santa Anita Fashion Park on October 14, 1974, with original anch

ors JCPenney, The Broadway, Buffum's and J. W. Robinson's. Only Buffums was open at the mall opening and the other anchors opened gradually through 1976. The western wing was demolished and expanded in the late 1980s, completing in 1994 with a Nordstrom store replacing Buffum's. The J.W. Robinson's store became a Robinsons-May store in 1993, and The Broadway was converted into Macy's in 1996. In 1998, Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to Westfield Group, acquired the shopping center from TrizecHahn Corporation and renamed it Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita. "Shoppingtown" was dropped from the name in June 2005 and the mall became Westfield Santa Anita. On October 1, 2004, the first phase of a planned three-phase expansion of Westfield Santa Anita opened. The $113 million phase added a new food court, a 16-screen AMC Cinema, Dave & Buster's, a Cheesecake Factory, and 30 new retailers. On November 24, 2004, a new carousel in the center court was built and opened to the public. After the 2005 Federated Stores acquisition of The May Department Stores Company, the Robinsons-May store closed in 2006 and remained largely vacant for six years. On May 7, 2009, the $120 million second

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