Westfield South Shore

Shopping mall in Bay Shore, New York

Westfield South Shore

The Westfield Group

Location| Bay Shore, New York
Coordinates| 40°44′25″N 73°14′45″W﻿ / ﻿40.740242°N 73.245969°W﻿ / 40.740242; -73.245969Coordinates: 40°44′25″N 73°14′45″W﻿ / ﻿40.740242°N 73.245969°W﻿ / 40.740242; -73.245969
Opening date| August 30, 1963; 59 years ago (August 30, 1963)
Developer| R.H. Macy Company
Management| Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Owner| Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
No. of stores and services| 99
No. of anchor tenants| 4
Total retail floor area| 1,165,000 sq ft (108,200 m2)
No. of floors| 1 (2 in anchors)
Public transit access|  Suffolk County Transit: 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, S42, S45
Website| www.westfield.com/southshore

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] The mall features the traditional chains Dick's Sporting Goods, Forever 21, JCPenney, and Macy's. Restaurants in the mall include Panera Bread, The Cheesecake Factory and Buffalo Wild Wings.

## History[edit]

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 a newly built two-story Macy's location at the mall. It opened on August 14, 2013. In May 2015, it was announced that Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing plan to phase out of brick-and-mortar.[8] On June 16, 2016, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would be opening in the former Sears space.[9][10] [11][12]

On August 27, 2020, Lord & Taylor announced it would shutter it's brick-and-mortar fleet after modernizing into a digital collective department store.[13]

## References[edit]

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. ^ "Sears to shut Suffolk store in May, lay off 145". Newsday. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
9. ^ "Dick's Sporting Goods to open 2 new LI stores". Newsday. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
10. ^ Bomey, Nathan. "13 more J.C. Penney store closings revealed: Department store continues bankruptcy store closures". USA TODAY.
11. ^ "JCPenney Store Closings – JCPenney Company Blog". companyblog.jcpnewsroom.com. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
12. ^ "JCPENNEY BANKRUPTCY AUCTION". indd.adobe.com. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
13. ^ Tyko, Kelly. "Lord + Taylor stores closing: Liquidation sales are now underway as part of company's bankruptcy amid COVID-19". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-08-14.

## External links[edit]

* Official website

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* Galleria at Roseville
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* Century City
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Connecticut|

* Trumbull

Florida|

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Illinois|

* Old Orchard

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* Garden State Plaza

New York|

* South Shore
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Washington|

* Southcenter

† Managed with no ownership interest, owned by Starwood Capital Group. Does not carry the Westfield brand.
‡ Managed with no ownership interest. World Trade Center space is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Fulton Center space is owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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