Hilltop Mall
| Location | Richmond, California, United States |
|---|---|
| Opening date | 1976 |
| Developer | A. Alfred Taubman |
| Management | Jones Lang LaSalle |
| Owner | Jones Lang LaSalle |
| No. of stores and services | 150 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1.1 million ft² (102,193 m²) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | www |
Hilltop Mall is a mall in the Hilltop neighborhood of Richmond, California. Hilltop is managed and co-owned by Jones Lang LaSalle, and is anchored by longtime tenants JC Penney, Macy's, Sears, and lastly Walmart, a 2007 addition.
Hilltop Mall opened in September 1976, built on land previously occupied by an oil storage tank farm owned by the Chevron Corporation. The mall was developed by A. Alfred Taubman, who also developed several other shopping malls in the East and South Bay Area, including Eastridge Center in San Jose, Stoneridge Shopping Center in Pleasanton and Sunvalley Mall in Concord. Originally it was anchored by a bright red-tiled Capwell's, JCPenney and Macy's. Both Macy's and JCPenney originally had stores in downtown Richmond, but while Macy's had closed its downtown store a couple of years earlier, JCPenney kept its downtown store open for another year after Hilltop opened. Capwell's changed its name to Emporium-Capwell in 1979, before becoming simply Emporium in 1990. Sears was added in 1990 in a newly built north wing addition, which was the last expansion of this property.
Once opened the mall attracted the major anchors of Richmond's downtown, which became deserted, with several major national chain stores closing, although many acknowledge that the trend predated Hilltop due to economic and safety issues.
The mall remained largely unchanged until 1996 when the Emporium store closed following its merger with Federated, who owned Macy's. The store remained vacant until October 1998, when Macy's refurbished and relocated their existing store into the former Emporium space. However, Federated chose not to have two Macy's at Hilltop (unlike Sun Valley, Stoneridge, and others) and closed the original store. That building would remain vacant until Wal-Mart took it over in the spring of 2007.
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