South Shore Mall (New York)

South Shore Mall
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LocationBay Shore, New York
Coordinates40°44′25″N 73°14′45″W / 40.740242°N 73.245969°W / 40.740242; -73.245969
Opening dateAugust 30, 1963; 61 years ago (August 30, 1963)
DeveloperR.H. Macy Company
ManagementNamdar Realty Group
OwnerNamdar Realty Group
No. of stores and services99
No. of anchor tenants4
Total retail floor area1,165,000 sq ft (108,200 m2)
No. of floors1 (2 in anchors)
Public transit accessBus transport Suffolk County Transit: 7
WebsiteSouthShoreMallRealty.com

South Shore Mall (formerly known as Westfield South Shore Mall) is a super-regional shopping mall in Bay Shore in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, in the United States. The mall is owned by the Namdar Realty Group, and has 1,165,000 square feet (108,232 m2) of gross leasable area.[1]

History

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The mall was opened in 1963 by the R.H. Macy Company, which opened the 3-level, 318,800-square-foot (29,620 m2) Macy's as the original anchor.[2] The open-air, 70-store first phase of the mall was completed by 1967, and originally included stores such as Record Town, Woolworth's, Lerner Shops, Bond's,[3] and JCPenney, which was the first in-line JCPenney location in the New York area at the time.[4] The mall's Loews Theaters location opened around the same time. In the mid 1970s, there was also a section of the mall divided into an area named "Captree Corners", a bazaar-like setup of small stores clustered into a village-like mini-mall area.[5]

The mall was fully enclosed in 1975. In December 1986, the mall's ownership was sold to the Westfield Corporation for $85 million.[6] Shortly after the change in ownership, plans for an expansion were underway. The renovation/expansion was underway by 1996, which gutted the northern end of the center, which was replaced with 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) of new retail area, along with a newly built, three-level (216,300 ft2) Sears, which opened in September 1997. A two-level (120,000 ft2) Lord & Taylor eventually opened in late 1998, replacing the former Woolworth.[7] On March 4, 2012, Macy's shuttered to make way for an entirely new store format for Macy's. It opened on August 14, 2013. In May 2015, it was announced that Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing decision to phase out of its traditional brick-and-mortar format.[8] On June 16, 2016, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would remodel the Sears anchor store.[9][10][11][12]

On August 27, 2020, it was announced that all Lord & Taylor department stores would permanently close, due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

On January 3, 2023, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield sold this mall along with Westfield Trumbull in Trumbull, Connecticut for a combined deal of $196 million, or roughly $100 million each, to the Namdar Realty Group.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "MALL HALL OF FAME".
  2. ^ "8th Macy's Store in Area Opens In New Shopping Center on L.I". The New York Times. 30 August 1963.
  3. ^ "Bond's Opens in Bay Shore". The New York Times. 4 October 1963.
  4. ^ "J.C. Penney Planning Full-Line Store on Long Island". The New York Times. 21 April 1965.
  5. ^ Aurichio, Andrea (4 November 1979). "SHOP TALK A Mall Within a Mall". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Park, Paula (29 June 1989). "Mall Expansion Plan". Newsday. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012.
  7. ^ Wax, Alan J.; Madore, James T. (17 December 1997). "Lord & Taylor Coming to Bay Shore / New tenant for South Shore Mall". Newsday. Retrieved 10 July 2011.[dead link‍]
  8. ^ "Sears to shut Suffolk store in May, lay off 145". Newsday. Retrieved 2020-08-14. [dead link‍]
  9. ^ McDermott, Maura (June 16, 2016). "Dick's Sporting Goods to open 2 new LI stores". Newsday. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  10. ^ Bomey, Nathan (23 June 2020). "13 more J.C. Penney store closings revealed: Department store continues bankruptcy store closures". USA TODAY.
  11. ^ "JCPenney Store Closings". JCPenney Company Blog. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  12. ^ "JCPENNEY BANKRUPTCY AUCTION". indd.adobe.com. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  13. ^ Tyko, Kelly (3 August 2020). "Lord + Taylor stores closing: Liquidation sales are now underway as part of company's bankruptcy amid COVID-19". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  14. ^ Firtea, Diana (3 January 2023). "Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield Sells 2 Retail Centers for $196M". Commercial Property Executive.
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