Janss Marketplace is an outdoor shopping mall in

Thousand Oaks, California Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County, California, United States. It is in the northwestern part of Greater Los Angeles, approximately from the city of Los Angeles and from Downtown. It is named after the many oak tr ...

. Previously known as Janss Mall, it opened in September 1961 as Village Lane. It was the first mall established in the city, and Thousand Oaks' only shopping center until The Oaks was built in 1978. 39 businesses are located here as of . Conejo Valley Art Museum is also located here. It is home to well-known anchoring stores -

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, and

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. - along with specialty shops and fast food establishments. It has a nine-screen movie theater and is surrounded by neighborhood restaurants. A big attraction here in the 1960s was its 854-seat Fox Conejo movie theater. The theater opened in May 1963 with a gala premiere of the movie '' A Gathering of Eagles'' (1963). Celebrities such as

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, Gary Crosby and Annette Funicello attended the opening gala. In 2015,

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spun off 235 of its properties, including the

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at Janss Marketplace, into Seritage Growth Properties. Sears downsized its store from to to make way for

, DSW, and

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, which closed in 2016. The Reign of Terror Haunted House is located here, which is a house open for tours on and around Halloween.

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closed in June 2018. On June 28, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 78 stores nationwide. The store closed in September 2018.{{Cite web, url=https://www.toacorn.com/articles/sears-closing-thousand-oaks-store/, title = Sears closing Thousand Oaks store, date = 29 June 2018 The former Sports Authority space became Dave & Busters that year.

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Buildings and structures in Thousand Oaks, California Shopping malls in Ventura County, California Economy of Thousand Oaks, California Shopping malls established in 1961