Westfield South Shore

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

Westfield South Shore
LocationBay Shore, New York
Coordinates40.740242°N 73.245969°W / 40.740242; -73.245969
Opening dateAugust 30, 1963 (August 30, 1963)
DeveloperR.H. Macy Company
ManagementUnibail-Rodamco-Westfield
OwnerUnibail-Rodamco-Westfield
No. of stores and services99
No. of anchor tenants4 (3 open, 1 vacant by around October 2020)
Total retail floor area1,165,000 sq ft (108,200 m2)
No. of floors1 (2 in anchors)
Public transit access Suffolk County Transit: 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, S42, S45
Websitewww.westfield.com/southshore

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, 3-level (216,300 ft²) Sears, which opened in September 1997, and in 2015 closed due to high rent in that space. A 2-level (120,000 ft²) Lord & Taylor eventually opened in late 1998, replacing the former Woolworth.[7] On March 4th, 2012, Macy's closed their original store (now demolished) and the space was converted to a newly built 2-story Macy’s location at the mall that opened on August 14, 2013. On June 16, 2016, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would be opening up two new stores on Long Island—one at Westfield Sunrise and the other at Westfield South Shore. Dick's opened in April 2017 in the former Sears space.[8]

On May 5, 2020, anonymous sources reported that Lord & Taylor would liquidate all locations once they reopen during the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. Thus far, the company has made no direct comment about the closings.[9]

On June 23, 2020, it was announced that JCPenney would be closing by around October 2020 as part of a plan to close 13 stores nationwide.[10]

References
  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".
  7. "Lord & Taylor Coming to Bay Shore / New tenant for South Shore Mall". Newsday. 17 December 1997. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  8. http://www.newsday.com/business/dick-s-sporting-goods-to-open-2-new-stores-1.11921698
  9. Reuters (2020-05-05). "Lord & Taylor will liquidate merchandise when stores reopen". New York Post.
  10. Bomey, Nathan. "13 more J.C. Penney store closings revealed: Department store continues bankruptcy store closures". USA TODAY.
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