# San Mateo Fashion Island

San Mateo, CA · mall · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `m-c2a3d25cfb` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/san-mateo-san-mateo-fashion-island/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-c2a3d25cfb.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-c2a3d25cfb.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/m-c2a3d25cfb

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | demolished | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Strategy | redevelop | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| New use | retail | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| What is there now | a power center featuring The Home Depot and Target | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Opened | 1982 | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **year_opened**: “Opened in 1982 as San Mateo Fashion Island” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgepointe_Shopping_Center
- **after_notes**: “leading to its closure and demolition in favor of a power center. Major tenants of Bridgepointe Shopping Center include The Home Depot and Target.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgepointe_Shopping_Center
- **status**: “leading to its closure and demolition in favor of a power center.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgepointe_Shopping_Center
- **strategy**: “leading to its closure and demolition in favor of a power center.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgepointe_Shopping_Center
- **enclosed**: “originally an enclosed shopping mall” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

## Anchors

Home Depot, JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, Bullock's, Liberty House

## Parties

- CBRE Group — owner (from text)

## Timeline

- 1982: Opened as San Mateo Fashion Island

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

Bridgepointe Shopping Center is a shopping mall in San Mateo, California, United States. Opened in 1982 as San Mateo Fashion Island, it was originally an enclosed shopping mall featuring JCPenney, Bullock's, Liberty House, and Montgomery Ward as its anchor stores. Following the closures of Bullock's and Liberty House, the mall went into decline throughout the 1990s, leading to its closure and demolition in favor of a power center. Bridgepointe Shopping Center is owned and managed by CBRE Group. Major tenants of Bridgepointe Shopping Center include The Home Depot and Target.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgepointe_Shopping_Center

## Sources

- Quoted support for year_opened — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgepointe_Shopping_Center

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "San Mateo Fashion Island, San Mateo, CA." Record m-c2a3d25cfb, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/san-mateo-san-mateo-fashion-island/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_sanmateosanmateofashionisland,
  title = {San Mateo Fashion Island, San Mateo, CA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ca/san-mateo-san-mateo-fashion-island/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-c2a3d25cfb, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.