- Westfield Hawthorn
infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = Westfield Hawthorn
caption =
location =Vernon Hills, Illinois , USA
opening_date = 1973
developer =
manager =The Westfield Group
owner =The Westfield Group
number_of_stores = 180
number_of_anchors = 4
floor_area = 1.3 million ft²
floors = 2
website = http://www.westfield.com/hawthorn
parking =Westfield Hawthorn, formerly Hawthorn Center, is a
shopping mall inVernon Hills, Illinois . Its fouranchor stores areCarson Pirie Scott ,JCPenney ,Macy's and Sears. TheMarshall Field's store was renamed Macy's onSeptember 9 ,2006 .The mall sits on land formerly occupied by the
Hawthorn Mellody Dairy , which was owned by the Cuneo family. Its original anchors includedLord & Taylor , which closed in 1990 and sold its store toCarson Pirie Scott .The Westfield Group acquired the shopping center in 2002, and renamed it "Westfield Shoppingtown Hawthorn", dropping the "Shoppingtown" name in June 2005.The sales tax rate for Vernon Hills,
Illinois (Lake County) is 7.0%.Future plans
As of 2006, Westfield is seeking approval to add-on and remodel the current mall. The plans call for the current
Carson Pirie Scott to be demolished and a bigger store will be built, a 14 screenmovie theatre to be built, a revamped futuristicfood court , and finally parking garages would be added on top of and beneath some of the existing mall. The $110 million dollar project will make the convert|1200000|sqft|m2|sing=on mall expand to a convert|1600000|sqft|m2.Anchors
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Carson Pirie Scott (112,121 sq ft.)
*JCPenney (196,224 sq ft.)
*Macy's (227,432 sq ft.)
*Sears (229,606 sq ft.)Gallery
External links
* [http://www.westfield.com/hawthorn/ official Westfield Hawthorn website]
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