Plaza Río Tijuana is an open-air shopping center in the

Zona Río Zona Río (English: "River Zone") is an official zone, and the main modern business district, of the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Zona Río is located at a strategic point, in the north of the city, about from the U.S.-Mexico border and from Downto ...

(new main business district) of

Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
(US) and < ...

Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. It has a surface area of . It opened in 1981 as the first large American-style mall in the city; previously

Downtown Tijuana Downtown Tijuana, officially ''Colonia Zona Centro'', is an official neighborhood of Tijuana, Mexico. It is located within the Centro (Borough), Central Borough ("Delegación Centro") of the city, immediately southwest of the San Ysidro Port of En ...

was the leading shopping area. Currently, it has the anchors

Soriana Organización Soriana is a Mexican public company and a major retailer in Mexico with more than 824 stores. Soriana is a grocery and department store retail chain headquartered in Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico. The company is 100% capita ...

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 ...

, and

Cinépolis Cinépolis is a Mexican and international movie theater chain. Its name means ''City of Cinema'' and its slogan is ''La Capital del Cine'' ( en, the Capital of Cinema). Cinépolis was the biggest cineplex chain in Mexico, with 427 theaters in ...

. There was a

Dorian's Dorian's was a department store chain based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Dorian's was established in Downtown Tijuana in 1959. On November 9, 1977, a fire ripped through the block where Dorian's was located, however after only 17 worki ...

department store here until 2009 when it became Sears.

Comercial Mexicana Tiendas Comercial Mexicana S.A. de C.V., colloquially known as La Comercial and La Comer, was a Mexican hypermarket group that operated mainly in Mexico City and Central Mexico. It was founded in 1930 and operated by Controladora Comercial Mex ...

was also in the mall until it became Soriana in 2018.

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