San Patricio Plaza

San Patricio Plaza
Location within Puerto Rico
Alternative names San Patricio
General information
Type Shopping mall
Address 100 Ave. San Patricio Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968
Coordinates 18°24′33″N 66°06′27″W / 18.4091°N 66.1076°W / 18.4091; -66.1076Coordinates: 18°24′33″N 66°06′27″W / 18.4091°N 66.1076°W / 18.4091; -66.1076
Inaugurated 1964
Owner Empresas Caparra
Management Adolfo González Santini[1]
Technical details
Floor count 3
Floor area 640,000 square feet (59,000 m2) (Retail)
Design and construction
Developer Interstate General
Other information
Number of stores 120+[2]
Number of anchors 8
Website
sanpatricio.com

San Patricio Plaza is a 640,000 square feet (59,000 m2) three-level enclosed shopping mall located in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The mall is located at the intersection of PR-2, PR-23, and PR-20, and has over 120 stores with its anchors being Kmart, T.J. Maxx, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Capri, Walgreens, PetSmart, Caribbean Cinemas and Office Depot.

History

During the Spanish Colonial period, Tomás O'Daly was granted land in the vicinity of Guaynabo and O'Daly developed it into a thriving sugar hacienda. O'Daly and fellow Irishman Miguel Kirwan became business partners in the "Hacienda San Patricio" which they named after the chief patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick. The plantation no longer exists. The land on which it was located is now a suburb called San Patricio with a shopping mall, San Patricio Plaza.[3]

San Patricio Plaza was designed and built by Interstate General, who leased the land to the Gonzalez Giusti family during 1964. By the early seventies, because of the high interest rates and oil costs, Interstate General decided to sell certain properties, including San Patricio Plaza, to the Giusti family.

At that time San Patricio Plaza was a strip mall with four large buildings with shops in each of them, all united by common hallways. The main shops were Kmart, Pueblo Supermarket, Walgreens and New York Department Store.

During the night of December 31, 1968, a fire consumed the building where Kmart was located. As a result, the mall's management decided to enclose the facilities becoming one of the first enclosed malls in Puerto Rico.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://sanpatricio.com/#/quienes
  2. ↑ http://www.metro.pr/negocios-metro/abren-nuevas-tiendas-y-establecimientos-en-san-patricio-plaza/pGXnlw!joNEe9kXg0MJo/
  3. ↑ SAN PATRICIO PLAZA EXPANDS; All Business News, Retrieved December 2, 2008
  4. ↑ "San Patricio Plaza | Historia". Sanpatricio.com. Archived from the original on 2013-08-19. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
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