Palmdale Council OKs Mervyn’s for Mall
The Palmdale City Council has paved the way for construction of a Mervyn’s department store, to begin at the Antelope Valley Mall next month.
The mall, the first indoor shopping center in the Antelope Valley, is the largest generator of sales tax in the city and is viewed as a key to the city’s financial health.
The council voted 5 to 0 to allow a 75,000-square-foot store to be built on six acres next to the 750,000-square-foot mall that opened in 1990. Mervyn’s is scheduled to open in October, 1992, and is the first of four anchor stores that mall officials hope to include in the second phase of the shopping complex.
Three other department stores are considering locating in the mall, but have not yet given “concrete commitments,” said Brian Grahlman, operations manager of the mall. He declined to name the stores.
The Mervyn’s in Lancaster will remain open, a spokeswoman for the Hayward-based corporation said.
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