The Mills Corporation was a real estate company that owns a portfolio of shopping malls in the United States and Canada. Most of the malls it owned are single-story outlet malls with a large movie theatre with 10-30 screens, a large food court with at least 10 restaurants, themed neighborhoods, and at least 150 stores. The Mills Corporation was founded in 1985 and was acquired by Simon Property Group in 2007.
List of former Mills properties
Below is a list of malls owned by the Mills Corporation, with the date of establishment of each mall in parenthesis:
Arizona Mills (1997) – Tempe (Phoenix), Arizona
Arundel Mills (2000) – Hanover (Baltimore), Maryland
The Block at Orange (1998) – Orange (Los Angeles), California
Cincinnati Mall (formerly Forest Fair Mall & Cincinnati Mills) (1988) – Cincinnati, Ohio Colorado Mills (2002) – Lakewood (Denver), Colorado Concord Mills (1999) – Concord (Charlotte), North Carolina Sugarloaf Mills (formerly Discover Mills) (2001) – Lawrenceville (Atlanta), Georgia Note: This is the first known instance of a developer selling naming rights to a mall in the United States. Grapevine Mills (1997) – Grapevine (Dallas–Fort Worth), Texas Great Mall of the Bay Area (1994) – Milpitas (San Jose), California Gurnee Mills (1991) – Gurnee (Chicago), Illinois Katy Mills (1999) – Katy (Houston), Texas Ontario Mills (1996) – Ontario (Los Angeles), California Opry Mills (2000) - Nashville, Tennessee Philadelphia Mills (formerly Franklin Mills) (1989) – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Potomac Mills (1985) – Woodbridge (Washington, D.C.), Virginia Sawgrass Mills (1990) – Sunrise (Fort Lauderdale), Florida St. Louis Mills (2003) – Hazelwood (St. Louis), Missouri