| Montclair Place | |
| Coordinates: | 34.0867°N -117.6936°W |
| Address: | 5060 E. Montclair Plaza Ln |
| Location: | Montclair, California, United States |
| Opening Date: | November 3, 1968 |
| Developer: | The Hahn Company |
| Manager: | CIM Group |
| Owner: | CIM Group |
| Number Of Anchors: | 2 |
| Number Of Stores: | 132 [1] |
| Floor Area: | 1200000square feet |
| Floors: | 2 (3 in former Sears) |
Montclair Place is a 1200000square feet indoor shopping mall in Montclair, California. The mall was known as Montclair Plaza until 2015.The mall features JCPenney, and Macy's, in addition to an AMC Theatres Dine-In.
The mall opened on November 5, 1968, at a cost of $50 million, with 69 stores on a single level, representing over 600000square feet of retail space, on a lot of 120acres with parking space for 6,000 cars. Montclair Plaza was developed by contractor Ernest W. Hahn; the architect of the overall mall and shops was Burke, Kober, Nicolais & Archuleta. Three department stores anchored Montclair Plaza at, or shortly after its opening:
Other stores open at the Plaza's launch included branches of the junior department stores:
There was a General Cinemas theater complex.
A United California Bank, Crocker Bank, Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakery, drugstore, and supermarket were located across from the mall in a 77400square feet strip mall on the northeast of the property.[2]
The mall was renovated and expanded with a second level that opened on October 30, 1985. Sears was added to the mall the same year, which relocated from the Indian Hill Mall. The first Nordstrom store in San Bernardino County opened at the Montclair Plaza on May 2, 1986. May Company was converted to Robinsons-May in 1993. The Broadway became a Macy's in 1996. Macy's relocated to the Robinsons-May space in 2006 after the chains merged.
In February 2014, CIM Group acquired the mall.[5]
In November 2015, the mall was renamed "Montclair Place" and renovations were announced. On March 1, 2018, AMC Theatres announced that it will replace the Broadway building with a new 55,000-square-foot dine-in movie theatre, the city's first indoor theatre in nearly twenty years. Multiple new stores were added, including Forever 21 and Spectrum. The Canyon, a 17,500-square-foot music and entertainment venue, and Kids Empire, an 11,000-square-foot indoor playground were added. A Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar opened in December 2019 in the former Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. A WinWings restaurant opened next to the Panda Express restaurant. On July 3, 2019, bowling & arcade amusement chain Round One Entertainment announced it will open a location.
The original Broadway outpost was razed for an AMC Theatres which opened during 2021.[6]
The dawn of the early 2020s saw several storied traditional department store retailers update its brick-and-mortar formats after being encroached upon to a degree by several digital retailers in recent years in addition to the COVID pandemic.
Both the previous Sears and Nordstrom outposts are being considered for a future enhanced development expected to take place soon.[7]
On November 7, 2019, it was announced Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing decision to eliminate its traditional brick-and-mortar format.[8]
On May 7, 2020, Nordstrom, which also maintains several additional outposts nearby, announced plans to shutter along with several additional locations as a direct result of pulling back because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[9]
Metrolink has a station located two city blocks north of the mall at 5091 Richon Street, with connections to Foothill Transit, Omnitrans, Silver Streak, and Riverside Transit Agency Express Line 204 buses.[14]