Mills Corporation

The Mills Corporation was a real estate company that owned a portfolio of shopping malls in the United States and Canada. Most of the malls it owned were single-story outlet malls with a large movie theatre with 10-30 screens, a large food court with at least 10 restaurants, themed neighborhoods, and at least 150 stores. The Mills Corporation was founded in 1985 and was acquired by Simon Property Group in 2007.

List of former Mills properties

Below is a list of malls owned by the Mills Corporation, with the date of establishment of each mall in parenthesis: 

Arizona Mills (1997) – Tempe (Phoenix), Arizona
Arundel Mills (2000) – Hanover (Baltimore), Maryland
The Block at Orange (1998) – Orange (Los Angeles), California
Cincinnati Mall (formerly Forest Fair Mall & Cincinnati Mills) (1988) – Cincinnati, Ohio 
Colorado Mills (2002) – Lakewood (Denver), Colorado
Concord Mills (1999) – Concord (Charlotte), North Carolina
Sugarloaf Mills (formerly Discover Mills) (2001) – Lawrenceville (Atlanta), Georgia
Note: This is the first known instance of a developer selling naming rights to a mall in the United States. 
Grapevine Mills (1997) – Grapevine (Dallas–Fort Worth), Texas
Great Mall of the Bay Area (1994) – Milpitas (San Jose), California
Gurnee Mills (1991) – Gurnee (Chicago), Illinois
Katy Mills (1999) – Katy (Houston), Texas
Ontario Mills (1996) – Ontario (Los Angeles), California
Opry Mills (2000) - Nashville, Tennessee
Franklin Mall (formerly Franklin Mills/Philadelphia Mills) (1989) – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Potomac Mills (1985) – Woodbridge (Washington, D.C.), Virginia 
Sawgrass Mills (1990) – Sunrise (Fort Lauderdale), Florida 
St. Louis Mills (2003) – Hazelwood (St. Louis), Missouri

References

Category:Defunct companies of the United States