History
Eastfield Mall opened in 1967 with branches of two local department stores: Forbes & Wallace and Steigers. The third anchor store, Sears remains to this day. Forbes closed in 1975 leaving the mall store vacant. It was sold (the anchor stores are wholly owned by their tenant or proxies) and J. C. Penney moved in. Filene's, whose parent company May Department Stores had bought Steigers, moved into their old space. A movie theater was built in the late 1990s.
The addition of a Steve & Barry's clothing store in 2006 put the mall at full occupancy for the first time since 1978. The store displaced nine smaller retail outlets, of which only two relocated within the mall. This store closed in 2008 following the chain's bankruptcy proceedings. In 2009, Hannoush Jewelers opened a showroom in the space vacated by Steve & Barry's. In 2004, the mall implemented a teen escort policy, stating that any customer under the age of 15 must be with an escort after 5:00 PM. In 2011, JCPenney announced that they would be closing their Eastfield store.
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