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The Streets of Woodfield is a shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

located at I-290

Interstate 290 (Illinois)

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and Higgins Rd. in Schaumburg, Illinois

Schaumburg, Illinois

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, directly across from Woodfield Mall

Woodfield Mall

Woodfield Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall located in the northwest Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois, United States, at the intersection of Golf Road and Illinois Route 53....

. McCaffery Interests, a Chicago-based real estate developer, rebuilt the mall into the present-day configuration as a shopping and entertainment mall anchored by Carson Pirie Scott

Carson Pirie Scott

Carson Pirie Scott & Co., known informally as Carson's, is an upscale chain of department stores that have been in business for over 150 years. Their product price points are targeted to the moderate-to-upscale shopper...

, GameWorks

GameWorks

GameWorks is a chain of entertainment venues featuring video games, simulators, prizes, and a full service bar and restaurant. There are 7 GameWorks venues throughout the U.S. The first GameWorks opened in Downtown Seattle in March 1997....

, Dick's Sporting Goods

Dick's Sporting Goods

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. , or Dick's, is a Fortune 500 American corporation in the sporting goods and retail industries.The company's headquarters are on the grounds of Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay Township near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dick's has 451 stores in 42 states as of...

, and a movie theater owned by Loews Theaters. The lifestyle retail

Lifestyle center (retail)

A lifestyle center is a shopping center or mixed-used commercial development that combines the traditional retail functions of a shopping mall with leisure amenities oriented towards upscale consumers...

is known throughout the area as a prominent shopping haven.

Tenants

Major retailers of The Streets of Woodfield include Carson Pirie Scott

Carson Pirie Scott

, Dick's Sporting Goods

Dick's Sporting Goods

, Ann Taylor LOFT, Wolf Camera, Christopher & Banks, Gentlemen's Quarters, Asha, Andrianna Furs, Brides by Demetrius, Olive Oil Place, Omaha Steaks

Omaha Steaks

is a direct marketer of meat, food seasonings, cookbooks and pet food in the USA. Founded in 1917 as a single butcher shop in Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha Steaks is a ﬁfth-generation, privately held family business, that is now one of America’s largest marketers of beef...

, Franklin Covey, Tall Girl, and Citibank.

The Streets of Woodfield is also a regional entertainment destination with such features as Gameworks

GameWorks

, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, Chicago Comedy Company, Root Studio, and the Midwest Performing Arts Studio. The AMC Loews Streets of Woodfield 20 megaplex, given its awkward name when AMC Theatres

AMC Theatres

AMC Theatres , officially known as AMC Entertainment, Inc., is the second largest movie theater chain in North America with 5,325 screens, second only to Regal Entertainment Group, and one of the United States's four national cinema chains AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema), officially known as...

acquired the Loews Cineplex chain, replaced the early-1990s One Schaumburg Place cinemas with this 20-screen movie theater in 2000. In addition, a 30000 square feet (2,787.1 m²) indoor Legoland

Legoland

Legoland is a chain of Lego-themed theme parks. They are not fully owned by Lego Group itself; rather they are owned and operated by the British theme park company Merlin Entertainment.The chain currently consists of:* Legoland Billund...

Discovery Center, the first one in the United States, opened in late July 2008.

Restaurants and dining in the shopping center include Maggiano's, Big Bowl, Shaw's Crab House, Chipotle

Chipotle

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, Corner Bakery Cafe

Corner Bakery Cafe

Corner Bakery Cafe is a U.S. chain of cafes that specialize in pastries, breads, breakfast dishes, gourmet sandwiches, and salads. Corner Bakery Cafe is considered to be a part of the fast casual market segment of the food service industry, offering a somewhat higher quality of food and atmosphere...

, Jamba Juice

Jamba Juice

Jamba Juice is a chain of smoothie restaurants, headquartered in Emeryville, California, with over 700 locations operating in 30 states, the Bahamas, Canada, Korea, and the Philippines. Over 500 locations are company-owned, with the remainder being franchised...

, Starbucks

Starbucks

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, Jersey Mike's Subs, Meatheads, Tokio Pub and Whole Foods Market.

History

Previously, The Streets of Woodfield was an enclosed, discount-oriented shopping mall known as One Schaumburg Place. One Schaumburg Place opened in 1991, anchored by a Loews Cineplex, Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward is an online retailer that carries the same name as the former American department store chain, founded as the world's #1 mail order business in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward, and which went out of business in 2001...

, Filene's Basement

Filene's Basement

Filene's Basement, also called The Basement, is a Massachusetts-based chain of department stores which was owned by Retail Ventures, Inc. until April 2009 when it was sold to Syms....

, Phar-Mor

Phar-Mor

Phar-Mor was a United States chain of discount drug stores, based in Youngstown, Ohio, and founded by Michael "Mickey" Monus and David S. Shapira in 1982. Some of its stores used the names Pharmhouse and Rx Place...

, Child World

Child World

Child World was an American chain of toy stores that was founded in Avon, Massachusetts in 1970. Child World once boasted 182 stores and revenues of approximately $830 million annually...

and Highland Superstore (an appliance/electronics retailer). After Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward

closed in 1997, the mall saw a decline in traffic. McCaffery Interests purchased One Schaumburg Place in 1997 and began reconfiguring the development from a two-level indoor mall into a streetside retail development. This major overhaul concluded in 2000. Joseph Freed and Associates LLC purchased the mall in 2004.

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