Round1 Bowling & Amusement occupies 50,000 square feet on two floors of space that once held smaller mall tenants. That arrival in 2017 started the change now shaping Fox Valley Mall: over 140 shops and restaurants led by Macy’s, JCPenney, and entertainment instead of four department stores.
Fox Valley Mall opened on July 30, 1975, at 195 Fox Valley Center in Aurora, Illinois. Route 59 runs along its eastern edge; East New York Street and U.S. Route 34 bracket it north and south.
The mall’s 1.5 million square feet serve Aurora, Naperville, and the broader western Chicago suburbs. Since 2018, it has lost two of its original four department-store anchors, leaving Macy’s and JCPenney as the only two still operating…