Indian Hill Mall

Indian Hill Mall is a former shopping mall in Pomona, California. It has been redeveloped into a multi-use retail, commercial and educational facility and is now known as The Village @ Indian Hill, comprising 650,000 square feet (60,000 m2) on 39 acres (16 ha).

Indian Hill Mall
LocationPomona, California, United States
Coordinates34.062°N 117.721°W / 34.062; -117.721
Address1460 E. Holt Avenue
Opening date1955
No. of anchor tenants2
Total retail floor area650,000 sq ft (60,000 m2)
No. of floors2
Websitevillageatindianhill.com

The original, open-air mall was built in the mid-1950s as Pomona Valley Center. Its anchor store, a 111,500-square-foot (10,360 m2) Sears, had been dedicated in November 1954. Inline stores included Long's Drugs, F.C. Nash and J.J. Newberry. Between 1967 and 1969, the mall was expanded westward. A 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) Zody's discount store opened in June 1969, as the center's second anchor.

A name change – to Indian Hill Mall – was done in 1975. An enclosing renovation was completed in September 1982. The project was described as "the largest single commercial development in the city's history".[1] In 1985, Sears moved to the Montclair Plaza Mall.

In 1995, part of the property was acquired by the Pomona Unified School District,[2] which created the nonprofit Pomona Valley Educational Foundation to manage it; the foundation was dissolved in 2010.[3] The conversion of the failing mall into an "impressive" educational facility has been cited as one of the chief accomplishments of then-school superintendent Patrick Leier.[4]

The expanded property now houses multiple educational facilities which serve more than 2,000 students in grades pre-Kindergarten to 14.[2] An eight-screen movie theater formerly in the mall was closed in September 2005, prompting the theater owner to sue the school district, alleging that the lease had been improperly terminated.[5]

References
  1. Landsbaum, Mark (December 21, 1980). "'Blue Collar' Mall Will Set Pomona Development Record". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  2. "Welcome to The Village at Indian Hill". Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  3. Rodriquez, Monica. "Pomona Valley Educational Foundation to fold". Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  4. "Pomona schools need new style of leadership". Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. March 4, 2006. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  5. Ruiz, Kenneth Todd (October 4, 2005). "Ex-theater owner sues Pomona schools". Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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