Shopping Spree
Nordstrom Inc., the specialty department store chain based in Seattle, Wash., is expanding to Thousand Oaks and Irvine. The Nordstrom store heads a list of retailers signing up for The Oaks, a 26-yearold mall in Thousand Oaks being redeveloped by its owner, The Macerich Co., based in Santa Monica. Nordstrom executives said the Thousand Oaks store, which will occupy between 124,000 and 144,000 square feet, will open in fall 2006. At the same time, the retailer announced it will open a new store in fall 2005 at the Irvine Spectrum Center in Orange County.
