Promenade Temecula, formerly The Promenade in Temecula, is an enclosed

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Temecula Temecula (; , ; Luiseño: ''Temeekunga'') is a city in southwestern Riverside County, California, United States. The city had a population of 110,003 as of the 2020 census and was incorporated on December 1, 1989. The city is a tourist and ...

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. Opened on October 27, 1999, its anchor tenants are J. C. Penney,

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which occupies two anchor spots: Macy's North (which was a former

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) and Macy's South (which preceded North),

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, and

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History

Promenade Temecula opened on October 27, 1999, with three department stores:

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, and

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opened in 2002 alongside a new concourse of shops. The Macy's and the additional stores occupied space originally set aside for an ice skating rink on the south side of the mall, which never came to fruition. In 2008, Macy's acquired the former Robinsons-May location, which on June 14 began operating as the Macy's Men's, Children, and Home store. The original location became a Macy's Women's only store. In 2009, a number of developments helped transform the Promenade. Two new parking garages were built between the

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and Macy's, and between them, a row of shops called "The Shops on Promenade Drive" was added, with a new entrance through the JCPenney wing with shops and restaurants such as White House Black Market,

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, P.F. Chang's,

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, Chico's, Soma Intimates,

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, Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar,

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, The Walking Company, and

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. This section of the mall officially opened on March 26, 2009. In 2011, plans to track cell phones starting Black Friday of that year were planned, by using GPS data via a system developed by company Path Intelligence. These plans were cancelled after Senator

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raised privacy concerns. In 2015,

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spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Promenade Temecula, into Seritage Growth Properties. On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Sears would be closing this location a part of a plan to close 96 stores nationwide. The store closed in February 2020. The first floor is currently occupied by

. The second floor of the Sears space was converted to

, which opened in April 2022.

Future developments

In 2016, the city of Temecula approved a "multi-million" dollar renovation project for the property. Plans are for a two-story open-air plaza to cut though the Macy's wing in the southwestern corner of the property. In addition, the plan includes construction of two new restaurants to be built in what is currently the parking lot west of Macy's south building. One of the restaurants,

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, opened on November 20, 2018; however, no timeline has been announced for the rest of the project.

Footnotes

External links

Promenade Temecula Official website
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