{{short description|Shopping mall in Niles, Illinois, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{infobox shopping mall | name = Golf Mill Shopping Center | logo = File:Current Golf Mill Shopping Center logo.png | logo_alt = 381 | logo_width = 285 | image = Golf Mill Mall Entrance.jpg | caption = Golf Mill Center entrance in 2010 | location = Niles, Illinois, United States | coordinates = {{coord|42|3|0|N|87|50|14|W|display=inline,title}} | address = 239 Golf Mill Center | manager = Sterling Retail Services | number_of_stores = 120 (at peak) <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.golfmill.com/category/store-directory/|title=Store Directory – Golf Mill Shopping Center|access-date=September 25, 2019|archive-date=September 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930172145/http://www.golfmill.com/category/store-directory/|url-status=dead}}</ref> | number_of_anchors = 7 (6 open, 1 vacant) | floors = 1 (2 in Burlington (store only takes up 1){{what?|date=March 2026}}, JCPenney, and former Sears) | floor_area = {{convert|1057000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} | parking = 5,500 | opening_date = {{start date and age|October 13, 1960}} | publictransit = Pace | website = {{URL|golfmill.com/}} }}

'''Golf Mill Shopping Center''', or simply '''Golf Mill''' is a shopping center located at 239 Golf Mill Center in Niles, Illinois. The shopping mall has a gross leasable area of {{convert|1.1|e6sqft|m2}}. It is managed by Sterling Retail Services. It borders the intersections of Golf Road (Illinois Route 58), Milwaukee Avenue (Illinois Route 21) and Greenwood Avenue. The shopping mall has over 100 specialty shops, three anchor stores (JCPenney, Target, and Ross Dress for Less), an AMC Theatres, a grocery store (Gordon Food Service), a LA Fitness (formerly XSport Fitness), and a 9-story office tower and other outparcels. Former anchors included Sears and Roebuck (closed December 2018), Kohl's (closed Halloween 2020), and Value City Furniture.

==History== Golf Mill opened to the public in October 1960<ref>"Golf-Mill Shopping Center Opened", ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', October 13, 1960</ref> as an open-air mall and featured an office tower (designed by Chicago architect Edo Belli to look like the top of a golf ball) and Sears. It featured a full "mill" theme, complete with ponds, bridges, and a working waterwheel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mallsofamerica.blogspot.com/2005/11/golf-mill-shopping-center.html|title=Malls of America - Vintage photos of lost Shopping Malls of the '50s, '60s & '70s}}</ref> Soon after opening, a Lord's department store was built,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chicago.urban-history.org/ven/dss/lords.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413023548/http://chicago.urban-history.org/ven/dss/lords.shtml|archive-date=13 April 2011|title=Lord's|work=Jazz Age Chicago}}</ref> but closed after a few years and was replaced by JCPenney. Around that time, the Mill Run Playhouse was built at the north end of the complex that wasn't connected to the corridors.

General Growth Properties took over the management of the Golf Mill Shopping Center in 1994.

After General Growth Properties went bankrupt, Milwaukee Golf Management Corporation took over the management of the Golf Mill Shopping Center in 2009. Sterling Organization purchased Golf Mill Shopping Center in August 2014 via a private equity fund, and its subsidiary, Sterling Retail Services is currently managing the property on behalf of the fund.

== Renovations == In 1986, the mall had major renovations, with the north end being completely rebuilt as an enclosed portion anchored by MainStreet and enclosing the mall between the Sears and JCPenney, also adding a food court in the process.

In 2006, GGP remodeled the mall complete with new flooring and a new food court entrance, however the north wing and a corridor in the south wing were left untouched. The remodel also added a 12-screen Kerasotes movie theater.

When Ulta first opened in 2017, the mall has planned to relocate the former south food court next to AMC, but it was scrapped.

In January 2022, the mall announced that it will be redeveloping most of the mall, planning to demolish the former Sears, AMC, Iconic Circular Tower, and various outlots as part of a "live work play" styled development. The new development would bring back the water wheel, add new outdoor retail, apartment complexes, new greenspace. JCPenney, Ulta Beauty, Chick-fil-A, Panera, Chase, X-Sport Fitness, Burlington, Target, and other stores will remain.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-31 |title=‘Live, work, play’ redevelopment targeted for Golf Mill Shopping Center in Niles; many existing stores would remain |url=http://nadignewspapers.com/2022/01/31/live-work-play-redevelopment-targeted-for-golf-mill-shopping-center-in-niles-many-existing-stores-would-remain/ |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=Nadig Newspapers - Northwest Side Local Newspapers |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Bus routes == '''Pace'''

* 100 Pulse Milwaukee Line <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/pulse-milwaukee-line|title=Pulse - Milwaukee Line}}</ref> * <nowiki> 208 Golf Road </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/208|title=Pace Bus - Route 208}}</ref> * <nowiki> 240 Dee Road </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/240|title=Pace Bus - Route 240}}</ref> * <nowiki> 241 Greenwood/Talcott </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/241|title=Pace Bus - Route 241}}</ref> * <nowiki> 270 Milwaukee Avenue </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/270|title=Pace Bus - Route 270}}</ref> * <nowiki> 272 Milwaukee Avenue North </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/272|title=Pace Bus - Route 272}}</ref> * <nowiki> 410 East Niles Local </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/410|title=410 - East Niles Local &#124; Pace Suburban Bus}}</ref> * <nowiki> 411 West Niles Local </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/411|title=411 - West Niles Local &#124; Pace Suburban Bus}}</ref> * <nowiki> 412 North Niles Circulator </nowiki> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacebus.com/route/412|title=412 - North Niles Circulator &#124; Pace Suburban Bus}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{official website|http://www.golfmill.com/}} *[https://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20140820/CRED03/140829990/cuneo-family-sells-golf-mill-shopping-center-for-60-million Cuneo family sells Golf Mill Shopping Center for $60 million]

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