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Orange County Plaza

Orange County Plaza, later Garden Grove Mall, Garden Promenade, now The Promenade at Garden Grove, was upon its expansion in 1959, with sixty stores, the largest shopping center in Orange County, California, and at the time billed itself as "Orange County's first regional shopping center". However, Anaheim Plaza had in fact already opened In 1955, four years prior, and had an anchor department store.

History
The center was announced in 1956 and was to cost $10,000,000. In 1956 and 1958, the project announced that Penney's, Newberry's and Grant's would locate in the Plaza, as well as the first branch of Rankin's department store of Santa Ana, which was to measure – however, Rankin's never did wind up opening a branch there. First phase (opened 1956) The center first opened in 1956 with 20 stores and of gross leasable area on , • Thriftimart supermarket • Economart drugstore Second phase (opened 1959) Phase II added 40 stores and of gross leasable area on an additional . This phase added the anchor stores: • a J. C. Penney (scaled down from as originally announced) Wineman's operated until acquisition of the chain by Boston Stores in 1984, when this and other branches were converted to Boston Stores. Additional stores that were added were McDonald's, Straw Hat Pizza, Citizens Savings and Loan, Bank of America and See's Candies. The gross leasable area at that time was . ==The Promenade at Garden Grove today==
The Promenade at Garden Grove today
The site continues to function as a shopping center called The Promenade at Garden Grove. With of gross leasable area it classifies as a community shopping center a.k.a. "large neighborhood center". Anchors are Garden Grove's second Walmart (opened July 16, 2014, formerly Costco which opened in 1987 and relocated in 1994), ==References==
Source: Wikipedia ↗
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