Winrock Shopping Center
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| Location | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States |
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| Opening date | March 2, 1961 |
| Closing date | 2011 |
| Developer | Winthrop Rockefeller and The University of New Mexico |
| Owner | Winrock Partners, LLC |
| No. of stores and services | 42 (1961) |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 (1961) |
| Total retail floor area | 500,000 leasable square feet (1961) / 931,000 leasable square feet (2001) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | n/a |
Winrock Shopping Center was a shopping mall located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The center is anchored by two Dillard's locations. and formerly a Sports Authority and Bed Bath and Beyond. Currently the mall is being redeveloped as Winrock Town Center, which will be an open-air, mixed-use complex.
In 1961, Winrock Shopping center was completed as a joint venture between soon-to-be Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller and the University of New Mexico on a sandy lot at the edge of I-40. The development included a covered shopping center (the first for Albuquerque and New Mexico) with Safeway, J.C. Penney, Fedway and Montgomery Ward. A freestanding movie theater and attached motor hotel opened in 1963.
The mall was built as an outdoor shopping hub with acres of parking on all sides and a screened canopy roof above the main stretch of the mall. This design protected shoppers from the dry summer heat as well as the cold high-desert winters. The 82-acre site was bounded by the busy I-40 freeway to the south, with off-ramps to Louisiana Boulevard to the west.
In 1971, Winrock Center was featured in the American International Pictures release Bunny O'Hare, which starred Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine. In the film, the two ride a motorcycle through the mall while escaping from a bank robbery.
Shortly after Winrock’s opening, competition moved in a few blocks away. Coronado Center was dedicated in March 1965. Dillard's established their first store at Winrock in late 1971, when they rebranded the existing Fedway location. Soon after, a new store was built as a replacement. Bealls was added in 1985. This space later became Oshman's and is now Sports Authority. In the early 1990s, a second Dillard's was added to the mall. The first location became a Women's Store, with the new building housing a Men's and Children's Store.
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