Cherry Creek Shopping Center

Cherry Creek Shopping Center
Cherry Creek Center atrium and playground in 2007
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LocationDenver, Colorado
OwnerTaubman Properties
No. of stores and services160+
No. of anchor tenants4
Total retail floor area1,032,000 sq ft (95,900 m2)
No. of floors2

39°43′00″N 104°57′11″W / 39.716710°N 104.953140°W / 39.716710; -104.953140 Cherry Creek Shopping Center, also known as Cherry Creek Center, is a shopping mall about 3+1⁄2 miles southeast of downtown Denver, Colorado in the Cherry Creek Neighborhood. It is situated along East First Avenue on the banks of Cherry Creek. The mall features Macy's, Nordstrom, Restoration Hardware, and Neiman Marcus.

Cherry Creek Center was originally completed in 1953,[1] and was renovated in 1990, currently anchored by three department stores; Neiman Marcus, Macy's, and Nordstrom. Lord & Taylor opened a location at the mall in 1990, a newer expanded store closed in 2004 after the chain repositioned. Other than the shops in Aspen, Cherry Creek Center is the exclusive location of several luxury retailers in Colorado, such as Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and Brooks Brothers. Saks Fifth Avenue closed in March 2011 and became Restoration Hardware in 2015.

It is also home to an eight screen movie theater operated by AMC. The mall is operated by the Taubman Centers company.

Before the shopping center

The shopping center is a triumph of mined land reclamation. In the 1920's Temple Buell bought a large parcel of land at First Avenue and University Boulevard. It was nothing but a weed-filled area. [2] Before the shopping center, sand was mined from a large pit. After it was mined out, the city used the pit as a sanitary landfill in the 1940s. After the pit was filled with trash, the first Cherry Creek shopping center was built over the dump.[3] It was designed in 1949 by Temple Hoyne Buell and is still in use, located immediately west of the larger mall facility extension renovated in 1990.[4][5] The former location of Bed Bath & Beyond was originally the Cherry Creek location of The Denver Dry Goods Company/May-Daniels & Fisher until 1990.[6]

Department stores and anchors

Vacant Denver Dry Building, first Cherry Creek mall

Former department stores and anchors

  • Lord & Taylor - (Opened in 1990, closed 2005, became Nordstrom in 2007)
  • Saks Fifth Avenue - (Opened in 1990, closed in 2011, demolished, site became Restoration Hardware in 2015)

References

  1. ^ "MALL HALL OF FAME".
  2. ^ Bretz 2005 page 50
  3. ^ Matthew J. Sheridan (1970), Urbanization and its Impact on the Mineral Aggregate Industry in the Denver, Colo., Area, US Bureau of Mines, Information Circular 8320
  4. ^ "CCEA Historical Facts". Archived from the original on 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  5. ^ "History of Cherry Creek Mall" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  6. ^ "The Denver, Denver, Colorado".