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Oakwood Mall
Location Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Opening date October 15, 1986; 37 years ago (1986-10-15)
Management Brookfield Properties Retail Group
Owner Brookfield Properties Retail Group
No. of stores and services 91
No. of anchor tenants 6 (5 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area 818,689 square feet (76,058.7 m2)
No. of floors 1

Oakwood Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The anchor stores are HOM Furniture, JCPenney, Hobby Lobby, Scheels All Sports, and AMC Theatres. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Sears.

History

The mall opened on October 15, 1986.

It was renovated in 1996.

In 2002, Younkers opened in the mall, in a space formerly occupied by Target.

An addition to the theater was made in 1997.

In March 2017, the Macy's store, which opened as Dayton's in 1991, was closed.

On August 13, 2018, Hobby Lobby opened in the space formerly occupied by Macy's.

On August 27, 2018, Younkers closed when its parent company, The Bon-Ton Stores, was liquidated.

The Sears store closed on November 25, 2018.

HOM furniture purchased the empty Younker's anchor for $2 million in January, 2019.

HOM furniture plans to move into the anchor in early 2020 in July, 2019.

KKMBA Eau Claire LLC began renovating the HOM furniture storefront in November, 2019.

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