Dallas — Centennial, a fully integrated real estate investment firm with a national portfolio of shopping, dining, entertainment and mixed-use destinations, has broken ground on a transformative redevelopment of Hawthorn Mall, a super-regional shopping center in Vernon Hills, Ill. Since it opened in 1973, Hawthorn Mall has operated as an enclosed structure without the outdoor shopping and entertainment elements incorporated into today’s more modern and vibrant lifestyle centers. Through a significant redevelopment of the center’s former Sears and Carson’s sites, the development of additional outparcels, and updates to the existing …