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. Its anchors are Dillard's,

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, and Animas Cinema 10. The mall is the largest shopping center in the Four Corners region.

History

The mall was first announced in 1980, planned to have five anchors including

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

, Dillard's, Bealls, and H. J. Wilson Co. Built by Gottlieb Corp and designed by Alan B Feingold Architects, the mall opened as scheduled in 1982. In May 2016,

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opened a location in the mall, as did

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that October. The mall was owned by General Growth Properties until Rouse Properties was spun off from the company in 2012. Rouse was acquired by Brookfield Properties in 2016. On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Sears would be closing this location a part of a plan to close 96 stores nationwide. The store closed on February 3, 2020. In 2019,

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filed plans with the city of Farmington to renovate the space formerly occupied by Sears, though no such renovations have taken place as of May 2023. As of Summer 2023, Brookfield Properties no longer owns the mall and transferred ownership to

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