The 68-acre Oakwood Center is anchored by a Dillard's and aSears that are both open and a JCPenney. The center will alsoinclude three sit-down restaurants, 360,000 sf of specialty shopsand a 20,000-sf food pavilion.

Among the new and restored design features at the center are afountain as its centerpiece, signs welcoming shoppers at allentries reflecting its new logo, thousands of earth-toned porcelaintiles to replace the flooring, hundreds of small-dome skylights,and color-coded hallways for shopper convenience.

The Oakwood Center in Gretna and General Growth's RiverwalkMarketplace shopping center near the convention center in DowntownNew Orleans sustained tens of millions of dollars worth of damageafter Hurricane Katrina roared through the area and were closed inSeptember 2005. Although property damage in the New Orleansgenerally resulted from the hurricane, the damage to Oakwood Centerand Riverwalk resulted from arson and vandalism, according topublic filings by General Growth. Riverwalk partially reopened inNovember 2005 at a substantially reduced occupancy level.