Somersville Towne Center
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Somersville Towne Center is a regional shopping mall in Antioch, California, United States. Previously named County East Mall until 2004, the Script error: No such module "convert". mall is managed by Urban Retail Properties. Originally opened in 1966,[1] it is strategically positioned in one of the fastest growing areas of the San Francisco Bay Area, east Contra Costa County.[2] Along with high population growth, east Contra Costa County is also experiencing sizable household income increases.[3]
Somersville Towne Center is the only enclosed regional shopping mall in east Contra Costa County and also the first such mall in the southeast portion of Antioch.[2] The next closest shopping center of similar size and scale is The Streets of Brentwood open-air shopping center in nearby Brentwood, which opened in 2008. The mall is anchored by 24 Hour Fitness and Smart & Final.[4][2]
History
Somersville Towne Center opened in 1966 as County East Mall, an open-air shopping center with Sears, Mervyns, and W. T. Grant as the original anchor tenants.[5] The Hahn Company built the center and sold it to Hexalon Real Estate in 1978.[6]
In late 1976, JCPenney replaced Grant's as the center's third anchor. A major overhaul in the late-1980s transformed the center into an enclosed shopping mall with Gottschalks added as a fourth anchor tenant.[5] JCPenney closed on January 25, 1997,[7] and was occupied for several years by a furniture retailer until the Script error: No such module "convert". building was gutted in 2003 and replaced by the larger two-story Macy's anchor in 2004.[8][9] The Macy's store opened on July 30, 2004.[10] Further expansion brought in a Michael's which later became a Marshalls as a fifth anchor in March 2008.[11] Before the Macy's store opened in 2004, The mall has been changed to its current name in late 2003.[12]
In August 2008, Mervyns announced it would close several underperforming stores, including the Somersville Towne Center location, which closed in December of that year.[13] Gottschalks closed due to bankruptcy in 2009, leaving two anchors vacant at the mall. In late 2012, it was announced that a trampoline park was slated to take a portion of the former Gottschalks.[14] In December 2016, half of the former Gottschalks building became a 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport club; the other half of the building remains vacant.
In 2013, Factory 2-U opened a Fallas Paredes store in the former Mervyns location and became an anchor tenant.[15] A year later, the mall was sold by Macerich to Time Equities, with Spinoso Real Estate Group as leasing agent.[16] Marshalls closed in 2013 and the space remained vacant until 2015, when Smart & Final opened up as a replacement tenant. In November 2018, Hibbett Sports opened up in the mall, replacing the spaces that Hot Topic & Zumiez occupied which closed in 2013 & 2018, respectively.
On August 6, 2019, it was announced that Sears, the last remaining original anchor, would be closing the Somersville Towne Center location in October 2019 as part of a plan to close 26 stores nationwide.[17]
On January 8, 2020, it was announced that Macy's would be closing in April 2020 as part of a plan to close 125 stores nationwide. After Macy's closed, Fallas remained as the last anchor with access to the mall interior; it closed in August 2022 and the space is now vacant. As of September 2022, 24 Hour Fitness and Smart & Final are the remaining anchors, though both anchors are inaccessible to the mall interior.[18]
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As of 2025, aside from the aforementioned remaining anchors, a Starbucks on the outer portion of the mall property, and the closure of Hibbett Sports, Shiekh Shoes is the last remaining national chain at the mall still in operation. A small number of independent shops also remain in operation.
Renovations
In 1989, County East Mall was converted from an open-air shopping center to an enclosed shopping mall.[19] The mall's most recent renovation was in 2004, which included the name change to Somersville Towne Center along with the opening of the Macy's anchor tenant in a new two-story building, and a cosmetic makeover of the mall's interior.[20][5] The new construction and makeover, which included new paint, new landscaping, new flooring, and improvements to the mall's entrances, cost a reported US$20 million.[9]
References
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