A fully-enclosed mall was added to Liberty House. Known as PHASE I, the structure encompassed 650,000 leasable square feet and housed ninety stores under its roof. The first inline stores opened for business in June 1972, with the mall being officially dedicated in August.

PEARLRIDGE CENTER TENANTS 1972:

J.C. PENNEY (with Coffee Shop, Beauty Salon and freestanding Auto Center) / JOSEPH MAGNIN / LIBERTY HOUSE (with beauty salon and restaurant) / ABC Discount Druqs / Ajia Shoksi / Anna Miller's Restaurant (outparcel) / Cardland / Chuck's Steak House / Crack Seed Center / Crazy Shirts / Fashion Fair / Ethel's Dress Shoppe / Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour / Foxmoor Casuals ladies' wear / Granat Brothers Jewelers / Hartfield's ladies' wear / Honsport / House of Pearl / India Imports, International / Joe Pacific Shoe Repair / Jun Kon / Kinderfoto / Kinney Shoes / Kuni Dry Goods / Lahaina Jeans Factory / Leed's Qualicraft  Shoes / Lilia, Incorporated / Mits Health Food / Morrow's Nut House / Optical Dispensers of Hawaii / Otaheite Shoppe / Owyhee Sportswear / Pearlridge Book Nook / Pearlridge Music / Pearlridge Pet Center / Pete's Modelcraft / Pine Tree Candies of California / Playwell Toys / Pomare-Tahiti Sportswear / Princess Ruth ladies' wear / Reyn's / Ritz Store / Robins / San Francisco Rag Shop / See's Candies / Spectrum / Star supermarket (outparcel) / THC Financial / The Corner Store / Gem Tree / The Needle Works / The Pot Shop / The World / Thom McAn Shoes / Tobaccos of Hawaii / Waldenbooks / Wicks 'N' Sticks / Zales Jewelers


The 40 million dollar PEARLRIDGE CENTER, as it stood in 1974. A southwest CONVENIENCE CENTER houses a supermarket, along with other smaller tenants. A freestanding Sears, on the south end of the site, has just been completed.