Puente Hills Mall
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Puente Hills Mall, located in Industry, California, is a major regional shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County.
The mall was built in 1974 after the completion of the Pomona Freeway a few years earlier. It opened in a cross shaped design with four primary anchors. In 1996, two anchors departed: The Broadway (which at the time was purchased by Macy's) and JCPenney. At the time of JCPenney's departure, the mall has about a 50% occupancy. [link] The mall was extensively renovated afterwards and now features a 20 screen AMC Theatres movie theater multiplex, and stores traditionally found in power centers like Circuit City, CompUSA, Linens 'n Things, and Burlington Coat Factory, in addition to the remaining two original anchors, Robinsons-May (becoming Macy's in 2006) and Sears. To ensure that people going to the movies walk through the mall, there is no entrance or exit from the parking lot directly to the theater lobby.
Today the mall is almost fully occupied and is the regional hub of a shopping and entertainment district that includes restaurants, auto dealerships, big-box stores, and a go-kart track (all off mall property).
It was the location of the Twin Pines Mall in the Back to the Future trilogy of films. Also visible is a strip mall across the street, which was anchored by Ross before the store was eventually relocated to the Puente Hills Mall.
The center of the mall used to feature a merry-go-round attraction but it was later removed by the mall's owners.
Due to the large and influential Asian immigrant populations - Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and Koreans - residing and/or operating businesses in nearby areas (notably in Hacienda Heights, Rowland Heights, Walnut, and Diamond Bar), the new owners of the mall have redesigned some elements of the Puente Hills Mall in order to conform to feng shui principles.
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