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Building History

The Stanford Shopping Center, a money-making venture of Stanford University, opened its first store--Roos Brothers Clothing--in September 1955. Others stores finished opening the following month. Among the first tenants were Roos Brothers, Blum's Restaurant, the San Francisco-based department store, The Emporium, and and another California-based department store, I. Magnin and Company. The Simon Property Group of Indianapolis, IN, purchased the Stanford Shopping Center from Stanford Management Company (which had run it since 1991) in 2003. Simon paid $333 million for the operation and agreed to a 51-year lease of the land underlying the development, costing 25% of its annual revenues. (No land on the Stanford 8,800-acre campus could be sold. Faculty purchased houses on the campus, but did not own the ground on which the building rested.) In 2006, the Stanford Shopping Center housed five main department stores--Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, Neiman-Marcus, and Macy's Men's Store--and contained 1,378,000 gross leasable square feet.

Building Notes

Tel: 650.617.8202 (2012).

Alteration

Macy's came to the shopping center in 1961 with New York-based, Saks Fifth Avenue added a year later. (This Saks store lasted until 1994.) The Los Angeles-based Bullocks Department Store operated an outlet here between 1972-1983; Nordstrom replaced Bullocks in 11/1984. Dallas-based Neiman Marcus opened its freestanding store on the southwest end of the mall in 08/1985. The Macy's Men's Store space formerly housed an I. Magnin Store, that closed in 1995. The Emporium, later known as Emporium-Capwell, closed its facility in the Stanford Shopping Center in 1996.

The San Francisco architectural firm of Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell (BFVS) worked on renovations to the Stanford Shopping Center in the late 1970s.

PCAD id: 7226