Moorestown Mall is a

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Moorestown, New Jersey Moorestown is a Township (New Jersey), township in Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is an eastern suburb of Philadelphia and geographically part of the South Jersey region of the state. As of ...

, owned by

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. The mall has over 90 stores and is anchored by

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, and

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History

Moorestown Mall originally opened for business in 1963 with

Gimbels Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987. Gimbel patriarch Adam Gimbel opened his first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the compa ...

Wanamaker's John Wanamaker Department Store was one of the first department stores in the United States. Founded by John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, it was influential in the development of the retail industry including as the first store to use price tags. ...

, and Woolworths as the original anchors. In 1971,

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

built a new store and relocated from Camden, NJ. Gimbels became

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in 1986 and closed in 1990. It later became Ports of the World, a new concept by

only to be converted to Boscov's not long after. Moorestown Mall underwent a partial renovation in 1986 and was completely renovated in 1993-94, after a serious fire damaged the northeast quarter of the mall on December 23, 1992. Wanamaker's became Hecht's in 1995 and was later converted to Strawbridge's. Prior to

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's purchase of the center in December 1997,

Lord & Taylor Lord & Taylor was the oldest brick and mortar department store in the United States, in business from 1826 to 2020. The brand was purchased during former owner Le Tote's 2020 liquidation bankruptcy and relaunched by new owner, Saadia Group, as ...

had committed to opening a store at the mall.

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also considered opening a location in

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but they did not commit to the mall's expansion plans. The Strawbridge's store was rebuilt in 1999. In an attempt to protect the

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, a mere away, The Rouse Company acquired the Moorestown Mall. Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust acquired the Cherry Hill Mall,

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, Moorestown Mall,

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, and

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in exchange for

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on March 7, 2003. Strawbridge's became Macy's in 2006. Moorestown Mall4

In 2011, Moorestown residents voted to allow liquor sales at the Moorestown Mall in order to increase revenues at the mall. As a result, several upscale, polished casual restaurants have been opened, highlighted by the Philadelphia region's first

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sports-bar restaurant and

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, a restaurant from the Garces Group. On December 22, 2011, PREIT and the

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announced their intent to build a new state-of-the-art 56,000 sq ft 12-screen theater known as ''Regal Moorestown Mall Stadium 12'', which will feature the new ''Regal Premium Experience'' (RPX). The theater took over the 7-screen

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at the mall, while a formerly adjacent skate park was used as an expansion to the new theater which more than doubled the size of the current theater. Additionally, the development marked the first RPX theater in the market, which features digital projectors,

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, 2D and

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with high-back rocking recliner seats, and Regal Express kiosks for automated ticket purchasing. Although opened with standard theater seats, all screens were renovated less than two years later to include full power reclining seats on all screens. The RPX theater features the same new seating with the addition of tactile sound technology from ButtKicker. In 2015, the mall's food court was redeveloped and upgraded to provide an enhanced environment that better matches the merchandising mix and upscale demographics. In recent years, the Moorestown Mall has seen an increase in the vacancy rate, due to declining mall traffic and competition from the larger Cherry Hill Mall located less than away. In 2019, the non-anchor occupancy rate at Moorestown Mall is 82.4%. On January 4, 2017, Macy's announced that its store would be closing as part of a plan to close 68 stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2017. On February 8, 2018, it was announced that

, and

would be opening in the former Macy's space. HomeSense opened in September 2018,

opening in Winter of 2018 and Sierra Trading Post opening in Winter/Spring 2019. On August 28, 2019, Lord & Taylor announced that it would also be closing in 2020. On February 4, 2020, Sears announced they would be closing as well on April 11, 2020 as part of a plan to close 31 stores nationwide which left Boscov's as the only traditional anchor left. In 2022, it was announced that PREIT, the malls owner, gained approval to build 375 apartments on the property with a 125-room hotel in the works. The number of apartments could reach 1,065 units. Furthermore, Cooper University Health Care will build an ambulatory care facility on the site of the former Sears store which is expected to open in 2023.https://www.moorestown-mall.com/event/EXCITEMENT-IS-BUILDING/2145568060/

Anchors

and

(all opened in 2019, formerly

Hecht's Hecht's, also known as Hecht Brothers, Hecht Bros. and the Hecht Company, was a large chain of department stores that operated mainly in the mid-Atlantic and southern region of the United States. The firm originated in Baltimore, Maryland. By 20 ...

, Strawbridge's, and

Macy's Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...

) *

(opened in the 1990s, formally

Gimbel's Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987. Gimbel patriarch Adam Gimbel opened his first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the comp ...

, and Ports of the World) *

(opened in 2020) *

(opened in 2020)

References

External links

Official website
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