Downtown Summerlin (shopping center)  The Downtown Summerlin shopping center is an outdoor shopping, dining, and entertainment center. It is a part of the greater Downtown Summerlin area, a development which lies within the affluent community of Summerlin on the western outskirts of Las Vegas, Nevada. The shopping center contains and is located on . The two major anchor stores are Dillard's and Macy's. In total, Downtown Summerlin is home to over 125 shops, bars, and restaurants, as well as a Regal Cinemas movie theater. A mall for the Summerlin community had been planned by The Howard Hughes Corporation since 1988, but was delayed several times. General Growth Properties acquired Howard Hughes Corporation in 2004, and began work on the site in 2007, to build what was then known as The Shops at Summerlin Centre. Construction was suspended in 2008, due to financial problems. Howard Hughes Corporation took over the project in 2010, and resumed construction in 2013. Downtown Summerlin's grand opening was held on October 9, 2014. A shopping mall had been a part of The Howard Hughes Corporation's master plan for Summerlin, Nevada since announcing the community in 1988. The project was once planned as an indoor mall with several department stores. By February 1996, Howard Hughes Corporation had plans for a 100-acre shopping mall, to be built near Charleston Boulevard and Town Center Drive. The mall was expected to be opened by the end of the 1990s. Later in 1996, Howard Hughes Corporation became a subsidiary of The Rouse Company. In March 1997, Howard Hughes Corporation announced that the mall would contain and would be opened by 2000. It would include five department stores as anchor tenants. The mall would be developed by The Rouse Company and The Howard Hughes Corporation. As of May 1998, the mall was expected to open in spring 2001. The planned Summerlin Town Center project would include the proposed mall as well as office space. Anchor tenants would include Robinsons-May, Lord & Taylor, and Dillard's, while Nordstrom would be a potential anchor tenant. In May 1999, Rouse announced Sears as an additional anchor tenant. The mall, known then as Summerlin Center, was scheduled to open in 2004. As of 2001, the Summerlin Town Center Mall was scheduled for completion in spring 2005. As of 2003, the mall was being planned as part of the proposed Summerlin Town Centre. Rouse intended to begin developing the project in 2004, following the completion of an expansion at the Fashion Show Mall. Construction was not scheduled to begin until at least early 2005, with a first phase expected to open in early 2006.