Westfield Oakridge opened on February 7, 1973 with anchors
Grants and
Montgomery Ward. An expansion in 1978 converted the former Grants into mall shopping space, added an additional wing of shops, and new anchors
Macy's and
Bullock's. Bullock's closed its Northern California locations in 1983 and sold its Oakridge location to
Nordstrom; which opened in the building in 1985. Nordstrom opened a new department store at the competing
Valley Fair shopping center in 1987, and the two stores existed simultaneously until 1994 when Nordstrom closed its Oakridge store and sold the building to
Sears. The bankruptcy of Montgomery Ward in 2001 left an empty anchor slot at Oakridge, originally meant to be occupied by The Great Indoors, a Sears-owned home furnishings concept. Instead, the building sat vacant until 2003, when it was remodeled and replaced by a two-level
Target store. At the same time, Macy's added 75,000 square feet to its existing footprint, bringing its total square footage to more than 220,000 square feet. Westfield began a $150 million multi-phase expansion in the Summer of 2002 and was completed in late 2003. The 300,000+ square foot expansion added two new junior anchors -
Linens n' Things and a
Borders bookstore, as well as a 20-screen
Century Theatres cinema and a large food court. A restaurant row with
The Cheesecake Factory,
California Pizza Kitchen,
BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse,
P.F. Chang's China Bistro, and
Buca di Beppo fronted the new wing facing Blossom Hill Road. The bankruptcies and eventual closures of Borders and Linens n' Things led to two new junior anchors at the center: a
Nordstrom Rack opened in place of Linens n' Things, while
Forever 21 moved from a smaller in-line space to the former Borders store. A 20,000 square-foot
H&M opened in 2011, taking over one of the mall's hallways and several tenant spaces in the process. Westfield purchased the Sears building at Oakridge and two other properties in May 2017. On January 4, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 103 stores nationwide. The store closed at the end of March 2018. A
Living Spaces furniture store took over most of the former Sears building in 2019.
99 Ranch Market opened as an additional anchor in 2022. ==References==