The site of the mall was originally a county-owned rock quarry.
Washington County stopped removing gravel from the site in the 1980s and began filling the property in order to prepare the land for development. In 2001, Washington County sold the former Durham gravel pit to Opus Northwest and Center Oak Properties for $18.75 million. The site was just west of
Interstate 5 in both Tualatin and Tigard, and adjacent to
Durham. Original plans called for a $163 million (USD) mixed use development with approximately of retail space and of office space. Perkowitz + Ruth Architects helped design the village, which was designed without the traditional
anchor department store. In 2003, Lake Oswego threatened to derail the project over concerns of congestion affecting the neighboring city. The city and Washington County settled the matter in August 2003, with Lake Oswego receiving $300,000 to use for traffic improvement projects. Before the center opened, the development was sold for around $170 million to BV CenterCal LLC. Overall costs for the entire development totaled $250 million. In November 2004, the first store at the open-air lifestyle center,
Crate & Barrel, opened. On May 19, 2005, the rest of the mall opened, with additional stores at the site opened in November 2005. Planned residential units were never built, nor was a planned underground parking structure. In 2006, the architect won an International Council of Shopping Centers Design and Development Award. By 2007, the center had revenue of more than $600 per square-foot, which placed Bridgeport Village in the top five-percent of malls in the United States. At that time it was also bringing in nearly 4 million shoppers each year, leading to discussions of whether to designate the area as a town center under the
regional government's land use plan. In April 2008, the county settled legal claims against a contractor who filled the old rock quarry and prepared the site for the mall regarding methane gas leaking at the site for $1 million. ==Amenities==