Sunvalley Shopping Center

Sunvalley Shopping Center, or more popularly Sunvalley Mall, is a regional shopping center located in Concord, California . Located off Interstate 680, Sunvalley is owned and operated by the Taubman Company and is anchored by two Macy's locations, JCPenney, and Sears. The total square footage of the mall is 1.333 million square feet.

At the time of its construction, Sunvalley Shopping Center was said to be the largest air-conditioned regional shopping center in the world. Developed by A. Alfred Taubman, the shopping center opened on August 5, 1967 with a performance by Tony Martin and is 1.333 million square feet on two floors. In the mall's early days it had 40 vendors including three anchor stores: a 233,000 square-foot Macy's, a 241,000 square-foot Sears, and a 216,000 square-foot JCPenney on three floors. A fourth anchor tenant was built in 1981: a three-floor, 180,000 square-foot Emporium Capwell, which operated as The Emporium from 1990 to 1995 until the department store's sale to Federated Department Stores; this location later became a Macy's Men's/Home/Cellar/Backstage, reducing the number of different anchor tenants in the mall to three. A World's Fare food court made up of international restaurants also included staples like donuts and Kentucky Fried Chicken; stores included piano-organ stores, an art gallery, a pet shop, a post office, an ice skating rink, cages of rare birds, and water fountains in numerous locations. The SunValley Cinema had 1,500 seats and the parking lot had 9,000 spaces.

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