Burnsville Center
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Burnsville Center is located in Burnsville
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville is a city south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies on the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from the confluence with the Mississippi River...

, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. It is one of the larger enclosed malls in Minnesota with over 150 stores and approximately 1100000 square feet (102,193.3 m²). The mall opened in 1977 after Joe Rimnac sold purchased farmland to Homart Development; however, the mall is now owned by CBL & Associates
CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.
CBL & Associates Properties, Inc., , is a real estate investment trust based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. The fourth largest shopping mall REIT in the United States, it owns, holds interests in or manages 130 properties including 79 market-dominant enclosed malls...

, a company with 70 malls throughout the United States.

Major Stores

  • 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...

     (51,364 sq ft.)
  • JCPenney(147,641 sq ft.)
  • Macy's
    Macy's
    Macy's is a U.S. chain of mid-to-high range department stores. In addition to its flagship Herald Square location in New York City, the company operates over 800 stores in the United States...

     (221,326 sq ft, formerly Marshall Field's)
  • Sears (167,337 sq ft.)(Including an Auto center, which is considered to be a separate yet combined store by Sears Holdings)
  • Gordmans
    Gordmans
    Gordmans Stores is a chain of mid-western off-price department stores founded and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Today, Gordmans operates 66 stores in 16 states in the United States.-Beginnings:...


Transit

The mall is used also used as a transportation stop in the region, with bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

 service linking the mall to other destinations. Regular public transit service is provided by the MVTA. The center is expected to be a stop on the I-35W Bus Rapid Transitway, which connects the mall to downtown Minneapolis (another major shopping destination in the region, particularly during weekdays).

See Also

  • Bus Connections
  • Other Transit Facilities

External links

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