Jantzen Beach Mall
Jantzen Beach sign
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| Location | Portland, Oregon |
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| Address | 1405 Jantzen Beach Center |
| Opening date | 1972 |
| Management | Edens & Avant |
| No. of stores and services | 30+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | www |
Jantzen Beach Center is an outdoor shopping mall located in Portland, Oregon, on Hayden Island in the Columbia River, known as Jantzen Beach SuperCenter from 1996 until about 2012. Opened in 1972 as an indoor mall, sometimes known informally as Jantzen Beach Mall, it was largely torn down in 1995–96 for big box development. The remaining enclosed portion included Ross Dress for Less, Burlington Coat Factory and Target as its anchor stores until April 2012, when renovation work began. A new one-story Target store was constructed on the property over the site of a former Barnes & Noble bookstore and restaurant, opening in October 2012.
Jantzen Beach Center opened September 28, 1972, on the site of the former Jantzen Beach Amusement Park which operated from 1928 to 1970. The C. W. Parker carousel, built in 1921, is the only surviving ride from the amusement park and was located inside the mall by the food court until 2012. One of the mall's early anchor stores, a 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2) Liberty House which was that chain's first store in the Portland area, opened in November 1973. An 84,000-square-foot (7,800 m2) Kmart store was added in 1977. The Liberty House store later operated as Frederick & Nelson from 1979 until 1984, The Crescent until 1988 and Lamonts from then until 1994.
In 1995, MBK Northwest acquired Jantzen Beach Center for about $18 million. About two-thirds of the mall was demolished in 1995 and 1996 including the former Lamonts wing, a cinema and around 150 small stores to make room for big box development which includes The Home Depot, Barnes & Noble and Toys "R" Us. The east wing of the mall was left intact with three anchor stores and a newly created food court. These renovations cost $38 million and expanded the center to 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) as well giving it the name of Jantzen Beach SuperCenter.
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