Golf Mill Shopping Center
USINFO | 2013-05-20 15:29

 

Golf Mill Shopping Center is a super-regional shopping mall located on 239 Golf Mill Center in Niles, IL, United States. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,057,000 square feet (98,200 m²). It is managed by Milwaukee Golf Management Corporation. It borders the intersections of Golf Road (Illinois Route 58), Milwaukee Avenue (Illinois Route 21) and Greenwood Avenue. The mall has a mixture of 120 specialty shops and five department stores including Sears and Target as anchors.

Golf Mill opened to the public in October 1960[2] as an open-air mall and featured an office tower (designed to look like the top of a golf ball) and Sears. It featured a full "mill" theme, complete with ponds, bridges, and a working waterwheel. Soon after opening, a Lord's department store was built, but closed after a few years and was replaced by JCPenney. Around that time, the Mill Run Playhouse was built at the north end of the complex. It wasn't connected to the mall corridors proper.

Due to competition from other malls, such as Old Orchard, Randhurst Mall, and Woodfield Mall, Golf Mill underwent a major remodel in 1986. It involved razing the north end of the mall (the strip mall portion and the playhouse) to build a new enclosed mall portion anchored by MainStreet, and enclosing the mall between Sears and JCPenney, adding a food court in the process. Sears became a "walk-through" anchor.

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