Westfield Southcenter

Westfield Southcenter, formerly known as Southcenter Mall, is a shopping mall located in Tukwila, Washington, United States. Owned by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, it is the largest shopping center in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest. The mall is anchored by Macy's, JCPenney, Nordstrom, and Sears, and also features an AMC movie theater.

In early 1956, three officials from Seattle's Northgate Shopping Center - James Douglas, president of Northgate Co., Wells McCurdy, Douglas' assistant, and Rex Allison, the vice president of Allied Department Stores - formed the Southcenter Corporation as a subsidiary of Allied. Their goal was to eventually build a large shopping center south of downtown Seattle that would match the success of their own Northgate and they began to search for a site, preferably of at least 100 acres. The site they chose was part of what was known as the Andover Tract, an 800-acre area of former pasture land being developed by the Port of Seattle for industrial use. In anticipation of the developments, the entire area was annexed by the city of Tukwila in November 1957. Southcenter Corporation strategically purchased 160 acres at what would eventually become the intersection of two major freeways, the Seattle-Tacoma Freeway and I-405. The construction schedule of the mall was dependent on the construction of the freeways.

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