History
The Westfield Trumbull was originally known as the Trumbull Shopping Park and was built in 1964 by the Frouge Corporation, with a branch of the E. J. Korvette discount department store and DM Read (later Read's) as its two original anchor stores. In 1977, it was purchased by The Westfield Group and became the first U.S. mall purchased by the Australian mall operator. It was renamed as Westfield Shoppingtown-Trumbull, which was changed to its current name in 2005. The fountain on the ground floor near JCPenney was demolished into an open space in December 2008. It has become a children's play area. It was actually not the first enclosed shopping mall in Connecticut. The Arcade Mall in downtown Bridgeport was the third enclosed shopping mall built in the United States and opened in the late 1800s.
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