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| Location | Jefferson County, Colorado |
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| Coordinates | 39°36′43″N105°05′44″W / 39.61198°N 105.09560°W /39.61198; -105.09560 |
| Address | 8501 West Bowles Avenue Littleton, Colorado 80123 |
| Opening date | 1983; 43 years ago (1983) |
| Developer | Southwest Properties Venture |
| Management | GGP |
| Owner | Brookfield Properties |
| Stores and services | 102 |
| Anchor tenants | 6 (4 open, 1 vacant, 1 converted to fulfillment center) |
| Floor area | 1,171,957 square feet (108,878.4 m2) |
| Floors | 2 |
| Website | www |
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Southwest Plaza is an enclosedshopping mall in unincorporatedJefferson County, Colorado, immediately south ofDenver.Littleton, Colorado is commonly indicated in the mall's postal address because its ZIP code is primarily associated with that city, which lies some two miles east. The mall has two levels with over 150 stores and afood court.
The anchor stores areDillard's,Dick's Sporting Goods,Round 1 Entertainment, andJCPenney.[1] There are 2 additional anchor spaces, with one serving as aMacy's fulfillment center and a vacant anchor spot last occupied bySears.
In 1983, the mall opened withThe Denver Dry Goods Company and anchor storesMay-Daniels & Fisher (May D&F),Montgomery Ward,Sears, andJoslins.
In 1987,The May Department Stores Company, then owners of May D&F, acquired The Denver Dry Goods Company; since May Company already operated a May D&F store at the mall, the Denver Dry Goods store was sold to J. C. Penney.[2]
In 1993, the May D&F store was converted toHouston-basedFoley's.
In 1998, the mall was sold by Southwest Properties Venture, a partnership between Denver developers Jordon Perlmutter, Samuel Primack, and Michael Cooper to General Growth Properties for $64 million.[3]
Joslins was converted to Dillard's in 1998.
Montgomery Ward closed in 2001 as the chain shuttered the last of its stores nationwide.
In 2006, the former Montgomery Ward store was demolished and re-built on a similar footprint as a Dillard's store and the former Dillard's being converted to aDick's Sporting Goods andSteve & Barry's.[4] In that same year, the Foley's store was converted toMacy's.
In 2009, Steve & Barry's closed as the entire chain was shut down.
In November 2015, an 18-month, $75 million renovation was completed.[5] Also in November 2015,The Cheesecake Factory opened at the mall.[6]
On August 6, 2019, it was announced that Sears will be closing this location as part of a plan to close 26 stores nationwide. The store closed in October 2019.[7]
On October 15, 2020, Macy's parent company,Macy's, Inc., announced that they will convert theDover Mall inDover, Delaware and the Southwest Plaza Macy's stores into fulfillment centers, with in-store shopping discontinued at these two locations.[8]
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