The Shops at Santa Anita is a super-regional

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located in

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, adjacent to the

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, formerly known as Santa Anita Fashion Park and Westfield Santa Anita.

History

The mall opened as the Santa Anita Fashion Park on October 14, 1974, with original anchors

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and J. W. Robinson's. Only Buffums was open at the mall opening and the other anchors opened gradually through 1976. The western wing was demolished and expanded in the late 1980s, completing in 1994 with a Nordstrom store replacing Buffum's. The J.W. Robinson's store became a

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store in 1993, and The Broadway was converted into

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in 1996. In 1998, Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to

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, acquired the shopping center from TrizecHahn Corporation and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita". "Shoppingtown" was dropped from the name in June 2005. On October 1, 2004, the first phase of a planned three-phase expansion of Westfield Santa Anita opened. The $113 million phase added a new food court, a 16-screen AMC Cinema,

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, a

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, and 30 new retailers including

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and

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After the 2005

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acquisition of

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, the Robinsons-May store closed in 2006 and remained largely vacant for six years. On May 7, 2009, the $120 million second phase of the mall's expansion opened. Dubbed "The Promenade", the outdoor expansion added 30 new stores between Macy's and Nordstrom with an emphasis on upscale brands like

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, and Clarks. On November 3, 2012,

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relocated from its location on the first floor into most of the former Robinsons-May becoming an anchor tenant. The Robinsons-May store was heavily renovated and repartitioned into smaller parts to accommodate this transition. The former Robinsons-May store was used for filming the abandoned

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scenes in the 2008 blockbuster ''

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''. In September 2013, Westfield Santa Anita hosted the first

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restaurant in the US. In May 2021, Canadian artist

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performed "

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", a song from his fourth studio album '' After Hours'' in the

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of Westfield Santa Anita for his

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performance. In August 2021, the shopping center was featured in

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's " Brutal" music video. In August 2022, the shopping center was sold for a sum of $538 million to an undisclosed buyer and rebranded from "Westfield Santa Anita" to the "Shops at Santa Anita".

Anchors

Current

(191,240 sq ft.) (opened as original anchor August 1975) *

(188,200 sq ft.) (opened as

, original anchor, November 11, 1974, became Macy's in 1996) *

Nordstrom Nordstrom, Inc. () is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901. The original Wallin & Nordstrom store operated exclusively as a shoe store, and ...

(136,334 sq ft.) (opened October 1974 as Buffums, became Nordstrom in 1991) *

(117,000 sq. ft) (opened as original anchor

J.W. Robinson's J. W. Robinson Co., ''Robinson's'', was a chain of department stores operating in the Southern California and Arizona area, previously with headquarters in Los Angeles, California. History Joseph Winchester Robinson was a merchant from Waltham, ...

on April 19, 1976, became

in 1993, closed in 2006, became a Forever 21 in November 2012) *

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(opened 2004 as Sports Chalet, closed in 2016, became Bowlero in December 2018)

Former

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(opened 2004, closed 2011) * Sport Chalet (opened 2004, closed 2016)

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