In December 2003, Swap Shop owner Preston Henn gave vendors at the Millennium Mall an offer, causing 180 of the 600 vendors to leave the mall for good. The final nail in the coffin occurred later that year when it was discovered that many of the vendors were selling stolen goods. Although the mall opened to great fanfare, it didn’t last long as tenants became frustrated for the mall had sparse advertisement and no food court. Plans included installing a 3,700-foot ice rink, functioning merry-go-round, and over 1000 tenants by the time the mall opened. Millennium Development Enterprises signed a 60-year lease with plans to invest over $20 million to remake the mall.

On October 11, 2003, the Hollywood Fashion Center briefly reopened as an indoor flea market and renamed The Millennium Supermall “Hollywood’s City Place”. By 1994, the mall was closed and sat empty for the next decade. The center was auctioned off in August 1993 and sold to State Mutual Life Assurance of America for $4.3 million. By January 1993, less than 30 percent of the stores were filled with the now anchor-less mall, forcing the mall’s owners, Hollytor Properties, to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to seek protection from creditors. Burdines and JCPenney moved to the much larger stores in the Pembroke Lakes Mall later that same year. In 1992, The Pembroke Lakes Mall opened just 6 miles away in Pembroke Pines. In the late-1980s, the center started losing many of its tenants, including one of its anchor stores, Jordan Marsh, who filed for bankruptcy in 1990. It should also be noted that this is also not the mall that 6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from as that incident occurred at the aforementioned Hollywood Mall. The Hollywood Fashion Center is not to be confused with Hollywood Mall, now known as Hollywood Hills Plaza located about two miles east on Hollywood Boulevard. Smaller stores included Hallmark Cards, Spencer Gifts, Walgreens and Walgreens Liquor Store, The Plum Tree, and Lillie Rubin. Zayre would later occupy the former Richard’s space in 1982. The Hollywood Fashion Center opened on November 1, 1971, with anchor stores Burdines, Jordan Marsh, J.C. Aerial view of the Hollywood Fashion Center on US 441 and Hollywood Blvd, 1979

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