Staten Island Mall

Staten Island Mall
Location Staten Island, New York, USA
Opening date 1973
Developer Feist & Feist Realty Corporation
Management Brookfield Properties Retail Group
Owner Brookfield Properties Retail Group
No. of stores and services 200
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 1,274,000 ft²
No. of floors 2 (3 in Macy's)
Website www.statenislandmall.com
The former main entrance to the Staten Island Mall.
Picture of the Staten Island Mall's new wing, public plaza and front entrance as a result of the 2015 expansion project.

Staten Island Mall is a shopping mall in the New Springville neighborhood of the Staten Island borough of New York City, United States. It is the only indoor shopping mall in the borough.[1] It is the largest retail center on the island and is the site of the island's third largest public transit hub after the St. George ferry terminal and Eltingville Transit Center, respectively, with numerous bus routes that connect to the periphery of the mall area. Anchor stores include JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Primark.

Description and history

The mall is owned by Brookfield Properties Retail Group of Chicago, Illinois, itself a division of Brookfield Asset Management, whose USA operations are based in Manhattan. It has 200 stores employing approximately 3,000 people. Anchor tenants include JCPenney, Macy's, Primark, and Sears.

Prior to the construction of the mall, the land was occupied by the Staten Island Airport, which opened in 1941. The site was sold in 1955 with a shopping and amusement center, known as the Staten Island Center, envisaged. In 1964 it was announced that Macy's and Abraham & Straus would open stores across from E. J. Korvette[2] Construction of the mall did not commence until 1970 and opened in 1973 with Macy's and Sears which still remain anchor tenants today. The A&S store was not built on the property as announced years earlier. The shopping center was developed by Feist and Feist Realty Corp. and sold to the Rouse Company in 1980. Rouse remodeled the mall by removing the small shops in the center court known as the "Honeycomb", added additional escalators to the six that were working at the time the mall opened, plus additional trees and several new fountains throughout the mall.

The mall was renovated and expanded in 1993 when the JCPenney wing was completed. JCPenney relocated to the mall from its long time occupancy at the Forest Avenue Shoppers Town. It was originally a two-story mall shaped like a letter "T", with a large outdoor plaza on the Richmond Avenue side gross leasable area (GLA) of 1,274,000 square feet (118,400 m2)[3] and a tenant GLA of 622,000 ft² (58,000 m²).

In 2008, following the US economic meltdown, several stores, including some open for many years, closed down and discount or non-national retailers took their places. Other spaces sat vacant, with their windows being used to display other stores' merchandise. However, by mid-2010, higher-end shops such as Michael Kors, Pandora and Armani Exchange opened for business, and by 2011, numerous new brands (Teavana, Adidas, Love Culture, etc.) were relocating or updating their looks while new tenants continued to revive the mall's image

On March 15, 2017, Primark opened on the second floor of the Sears store, while The Container Store occupied the former Sears auto center.

The music video for the New Radicals 1998 hit single "You Get What You Give" was filmed in the mall.

Expansion

The mall has been expanded (242,000 square-foot expansion) beginning in 2016 continuing into 2018 with an updated modern storefront with new restaurants and retailers like Zara and Ulta Beauty. They also added a new parking garage and Dave & Buster's. The food court had been moved from it's former area into the newly expanded area in the mall. A new Chick-fil-A opened in the food court. (Thursday, September 27) They plan to add a Barnes & Noble, Lidl, and AMC Theatres.[4] On March 15, 2017, Primark opened on the second floor of the Sears store, while The Container Store occupied the former Sears auto center.

Staten Island Mall

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Transportation

Staten Island Mall
New York City Shopping mall park and ride transit center
Location Richmond Avenue & Platinum Avenue
New Springville, Staten Island, New York
Operated by New York City Transit Authority
Line(s) 8 local routes, 1 Select Bus Service route, 6 express routes
Construction
Platform levels 1
Parking park and ride facilities on Richmond Avenue and Marsh Avenue
History
Opened 1973
Rebuilt 1993

Several local, Select Bus Service and express New York City Transit Authority buses stop and either travel through or on the perimeter (where park and ride facilities exist) of the mall's campus. They include the S44, S94, S59, S89, S61 and S91 local buses/limited counterparts, the S55 and S56 buses with no corresponding limited buses, the S79 Select Bus Service route, and the SIM4, SIM4C, SIM4X, SIM8, SIM8X and SIM31 express buses.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Glenn Nyback. "Staten Island Mall cuts hours of operation". SILive.
  2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/08/archives/big-retail-chains-to-add-branches-on-staten-island.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Staten Island Mall
  4. ↑ Tracey Porpora (March 15, 2018). "10 things to know about the Staten Island Mall expansion". SILive.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Staten Island Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2018.

Coordinates: 40°34′54″N 74°9′56″W / 40.58167°N 74.16556°W / 40.58167; -74.16556

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