MALL HALL OF FAME

Tucson's El Con Center A rendering of the first mall-type shopping center in -or around- the Old Pueblo . Its open-air shoppi...

Tucson's first shopping mall was built adjacent to the posh Hotel El Conquistador , a local landmark since 1928. The name "El Co...

Our first EL CON site plan shows the locations of  Hotel El Conquistador and the new shopping center built beside it. At this early date,...

In a full- c o l o r photo, shoppers stroll the EL CON shopping concourse. F.W. Woolworth, on the right, was a junior anchor at the 6 ...

By 1972, the new Levy's has been joined by a 480,400 square foot interior mall (in light gray ). This included J.C. Penney as an anchor...

An exterior view of the EL CON J.C. Penney. The store would anchor the shopping complex for over 49 years. Photo from Pima County, Arizo...

By 1979, the two malls are merged into a single entity. With the completion of the latest expansion (in light gray ), EL CON MAL...

By the early 2000s, EL CON MALL had been in a downward spiral for a number of years. It was reconfigured as the new EL CON MALL. Most of th...

The mall's North (Food Court) Entrance and open piazza it fronted on. This section of the former enclosed mall was torn down in 2012....

In 2015, the shopping hub is once again -officially- promoted as a CENTER . The remainder of its enclosed shopping concours...

Arizona's Scottsdale Fashion Square SCOTTSDALE FASHION SQUARE was developed on a site located 13 miles northeast of the Arizona State ...

The original SCOTTSDALE FASHION SQUARE is depicted in a circa-1962 plan. The section shown in black was completed in 1959...

Camelview Plaza A fully-enclosed shopping and office complex was built adjacent to the FASHION SQUARE mall in the early 1970s. CAMELVIEW P...

Scottsdale Fashion Square A FASHION SQUARE logo montage is made up of trademarks of various mall stores. These were in operation during t...

Phoenix's Westcor bought the FASHION SQUARE mall in 1983. In 1995, they acquired CAMELVIEW PLAZA. Dillard's assumed the ...

Arizona's Diamond in the Desert , circa-2009. The mega mall dedicated its tenth enlargement in October 2009. A vacan...

A circa-2020 site plan shows the mega mall's new North East Expansion and Elevated Luxury Wing in shades of gray . With these modificati...

Phoenix's Maryvale Shopping City Phoenix's third mall-type shopping complex opened 2 years after its first (PARK CENTRAL SHOPP...

MARYVALE SHOPPING CITY opened for business in August 1959. It was the commercial center of Maryvale, one of Phoenix's first -and largest...

By the mid-'80s, the SHOPPING CITY has been enclosed and renamed MARYVALE MALL . It now includes a South Wing ...