Posted December 29, 200519 yr From the 12/23/05 Canton Repository: PHOTO: Westfield Belden Village Mall expansion might focus on entertainment Friday, December 23, 2005 By Melissa Griffy Seeton REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER JACKSON TWP. - A $100 million expansion could be coming to a mall near you. Whether it’s in Jackson Township or in Canton is anyone’s guess. While mall officials are refusing to talk, discussion isn’t moot on Westfield Corp.’s new shopping center concept unveiled in communities across the country. Australia-based Westfield is taking the focus off anchor department stores and concentrating on something they believe is better — entertainment and specialty shops. Full story text is available at http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=259873
May 25, 200718 yr From the 2/23/07 Canton Repository: Belden mall to expand REPOSITORY STAFF REPORT JACKSON TWP. Westfield Belden Village mall is growing. The Westfield Group, the Australian company that owns the mall, submitted expansion plans to the Stark County Regional Planning Commission this week. Plans to expand the facility include a two-story parking deck and the addition of more than 120,000 square feet of space. Full story text is available at http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=9&ID=338093&r=12&subCategoryID=
May 25, 200718 yr From the 3/2/07 Massillon Independent: Belden Village expansion in the works By STEPHEN HUBA [email protected] Belden Village Mall isn’t the lone monolith it was in the 1960s. Today, it has company – shopping centers, strip malls, chain restaurants, professional offices and big-box stores for miles and miles all around it. To stay relevant in an increasingly competitive retail environment, mall owner Westfield Group of Los Angeles has submitted plans to add four buildings on the north side and a parking garage on the south side. The plans call for an additional 121,000 square feet of retail space and more than 400 parking spaces in a two-level garage, according to the Stark County Regional Planning Commission. Full story text is available at http://www.indeonline.com/index.php?ID=14308&r=0&Category=3
May 25, 200718 yr From the 3/7/07 Canton Repository: Regional Planning gives Westfield conditional OK By FELLICIA SMITH REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER CANTON When the Stark County Regional Planning Commission gave Westfield Belden Village mall conditional approval of its expansion plans Tuesday night, it put the project on the fast track to completion. "If everything goes as well as it did tonight, they want to pull the trigger on the first phase (of construction) this spring," Jackson Township Trustee Steve Meeks said. Full story text is available at http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=340359
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