21st century
The Westfield Group purchased Fox Valley Center in 2002. After Westfield's purchase of the mall, all the signs and usage of the Fox Valley Center logo were discontinued and replaced with Westfield's standard mall brand logo, with the shortened Fox Valley name. In the same time period there was an extensive renovation of the mall for the first time in its history. This removed the mall's large gardens and plants that were spread out throughout the mall. After Centennial Real Estate's purchase of 80% interest in the mall in 2015, all "Westfield" signs were replaced with "Fox Valley Mall" signs.[10]
Marshall Field's was renamed Macy's in 2006.
In 2009, A Tilted Kilt Bar & Grill opened between the Carson's and Macy's wings. In 2012, a Tony Sacco's Pizza restaurant also opened across the Tilted Kilt in the same hall along with Books-A-Million by Macy's. Round 1 opened in 2017.[11]
On August 19, 2010, a Chick-fil-A restaurant opened outside the mall.[12]
On April 18, 2018, it was announced that Carson's would be closing as parent company The Bon-Ton was going out of business. The store closed on August 29, 2018.[13]
On May 31, 2018, Sears announced that it would also be closing its Fox Valley Mall location as part of a plan to close 78 stores nationwide.[14] The store closed on September 2, 2018. This leaves JCPenney and Macy's as the only remaining anchors.
For the Halloween season, Halloween City served as a temporary anchor for the mall in the old Sears in 2019.
On Thanksgiving 2019, Fox Valley Mall opened a new "Center Park" that transformed the mall's formerly unused central courtyard into a public gathering area with green space, places to sit, artwork, and other amenities by the old Carson's. Before Center Park, there was an indoor ice skating rink that moved into an abandoned store, and the ice skating rink will reopen there in November 2020.
In early 2020, Fox Valley Mall began construction on an addition to Center Park, a two-level 8,000 square foot "tree house" that would connect Center Park to the mall and serve as an additional gathering space.
In late fall 2020, the abandoned Sears began demolition and continued the Fox Valley Mall 2.0 Redevelopment Plan, which later added luxury apartments and other amenities.[15][16]
