Aussie-based mall owner, Westfield, is scheduled to open the $240 million addition to the Westfield Southcenter Mall in Seattle on July 25, 2008. The 400,000-square-foot expansion increases the mall's square footage to 1.7 million, making it the largest mall in Washington and Oregon. 75 retailers are being added, including a 16-screen AMC Theatre and five new upscale restaurants: Joeys, Duke’s Chowder House, Blue C Sushi, Racha Thai & Asian Bistro and BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse. New retailers include Coach, Banana Republic, Sephora and White House | Black Market, H&M, Forever 21, PINK and many more. A 90-foot glass façade marks a grand entrance to the new addition, meant to perfectly frame Mount Rainier for shoppers on the inside. Generous landscaping, native stone and timber play an important part in the architecture of the addition. An elaborate children's play area and family lounge are also featured. This article appeared in CoStar's Retail News Roundup: May 11 to 17, 2008. The Roundup is a weekly column by CoStar senior news editor, Sasha Pardy, covering retail store expansions, closings, bankruptcies, acquisitions/mergers/sales, new retail developments, personnel changes, sustainability, and more. This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at S&K Menswear, 85c Bakery Café and Nike/Finish Line; new retail developments in VA, MS, LA, WA and IN; acquisition, merger, loan or sale activity at Centro Properties Group, Circuit City and Blockbuster, Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse, Schostak and BVT, Valero Gas, and Kinderhook/bd's Mongolian Grill; closings, cutbacks or bankruptcies at Build-A-Bear and Tropicana Entertainment; personnel announcements at Sperry Van Ness, Baskin Robbins, Opus South, Feldman Mall Properties, Transwestern; and more.