Garden State Plaza (officially Westfield Garden State Plaza) is a
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
located in
Paramus
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,
New Jersey
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. It is owned and managed by
Paris
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-based real estate management company
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE (previously Unibail-Rodamco SE) is a French commercial real estate company headquartered in Paris, France. Its history originates with the formation of two separate shopping centre operators, Unibail (founded in Fran ...
, and located at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 17 near the
Garden State Parkway
The Garden State Parkway (GSP) is a controlled-access toll road that stretches the north–south length of eastern New Jersey from the state's southernmost tip near Cape May to the New York state line at Montvale. Its name refers to New Jersey ...
, about west of
Manhattan
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The New York Times
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'', March 20, 1957. p. 49. Accessed February 27, 2021. "The Garden State Plaza Shopping Center, being built in Paramus, N.J., will open on May 1, it was announced yesterday. The center will be the largest in the state." it has of leasable space, ,
Westfield Group
Westfield Group was an Australian shopping centre company that existed from 1960 to 2014, when it split into two independent companies: Scentre Group, which owns and operates the Australian and New Zealand Westfield shopping centre portfolio; ...
. Accessed June 6, 2008 and housing over 300 stores, it is the second-largest mall in New Jersey, the third-largest mall in the
New York metropolitan area
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, and one of the highest-revenue producing malls in the United States.
The mall had sales of $500 per square foot in 2013, about $320 above the national average; Garden State Plaza is one of the most profitable malls in the country. In a study of malls in the United States performed on behalf of
CNBC
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, published in 2018, Westfield Garden State Plaza ranked ninth in the nation, based on sales of $950 per square foot. Most of the mall, especially retail outlets, is closed on Sunday in accordance with state and local
blue law
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s.
In a borough in which half of the property tax revenue comes from retail properties, Garden State Plaza accounts for 10% of the property taxes collected in Paramus.
History
The site at the southwest corner of Route 4 and Route 17 that would become Garden State Plaza was next to a
drive-in theater
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NJ.com
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, July 5, 2019, updated September 24, 2019. Accessed February 28, 2021.
Allied Stores
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and Macy's had discussed a shared project at the site that was abandoned in August 1953, after which Allied Stores pursued development of the Bergen Mall (since renamed as
Bergen Town Center
Bergen Town Center (formerly known as The Outlets at Bergen Town Center) is a shopping center located in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. The center consists of both an indoor mall and exterior outlying stores and occupies over 105 acres split betw ...
), that would be located a mile away on Route 4 and which was scheduled to open in September 1957 with
Stern's
Stern's (originally Stern Brothers) was a regional department store chain serving the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The chain was in business for more than 130 years.
In 2001, Stern's parent company Federated Department ...
as its anchor store.
R.H. Macy announced the creation of Garden State Plaza in May 1954, establishing a subsidiary that would own and operate the mall. JC Penney announced in June 1955 that the company would construct an standalone three-story building as part of the project, with the infrastructure to add a fourth floor, as needs grew. In September 1958, long-time Macy's rival Gimbel's announced that it was acquiring access to a building site in the mall for a facility that would include of retail space on three floors, with completion expected in 1960.
Garden State Plaza opened on May 1, 1957, as the first suburban mall in New Jersey, with plans to be "the largest in the state". On opening day, Garden State Plaza had 75,000 shoppers at a mall that was anchored by a
Bamberger's
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History 1892–1912
Newark was known for ma ...
The New York Times
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'', May 2, 1957. Accessed February 28, 2021. "More than 75,000 persons visited the Garden State Plaza Shopping Center at its official opening today.... Now there are nine large buildings housing sixty stores.... Bamberger's Paramus, as the new store will be known, is in a three-level structure occupying 340,000 square feet." The formal ribbon cutting ceremony included the mayor of Paramus Fred C. Galda and a local eight-year-old who cut a ribbon with one thousand dimes as a fundraiser for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (since renamed as the
March of Dimes
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), part of an awareness campaign to encourage people to get the
polio vaccine
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.
Its original three anchor stores were Bamberger's,
Gimbels
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, and
JCPenney
Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Gir ...
, with the rest of the mall consisting of 90 smaller specialty shops. It was called "the largest shopping center in the world." Constructed by the Muscarelle Construction Company for owner/developer R.H. Macy & Co. as an open-air shopping "plaza", total construction costs for the mall were $26 million (equivalent to $ in ).Verdon, Joan "Westfield Garden State Plaza, Paramus" ''
The Record
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'', July 27, 2008, backed up by the
Internet Archive
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as of August 1, 2008. Accessed February 18, 2022. "The mall, which originally had 90 stores, cost $26 million to build in 1957."
Garden State Plaza drew much business from nearby New York towns and cities, whose shoppers wandered across state lines to take advantage of New Jersey's lower sales taxes and its policy that exempted clothing purchases from sales tax. By 1961, it was the world's largest mall.
In 1975, the mall began a multi-phased, years-long project that would fully enclose the mall, converting exterior passageways into covered spaces. The project, budgeted at $20 million, would add of retail space, bringing the total to upon completion.
A $21 million construction project in 1981 converted access tunnels into a second level for the mall, added of retail space.
The mall was enclosed between 1981 and 1984 in response to competitive pressure from newer fully enclosed malls such as the Willowbrook Mall in nearby Wayne.Garden State Plaza Reshaped Landscape , ''Retail Traffic'', May 1, 1999 Later in the 1980s, a lower level was added by converting a former basement truck tunnel into retail space. The existing JCPenney basement was given a new entrance on the lower level, but since the floors were at slightly different elevations, that entrance features the shortest
escalator
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in North America, at a height of six steps.
In 1987, Gimbels' parent company, BATUS, which had been selling off its Gimbels' stores, sold its Garden State Plaza location to Associated Dry Goods. Associated reopened the store as the new headquarters for its Hahne's department stores. Hahne's had previously been headquartered at its flagship store in
downtown Newark
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Downtown is the site of the original Puritan settlement of Newark located at a bend in the Passaic River. The first settlers, led by Robert T ...
, which the company wanted to close. In the mid-1990s, a
Nobody Beats the Wiz
The Wiz, also known at times as Nobody Beats the Wiz, was a chain of electronic stores in the northeastern United States, located primarily in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
History
The chain was founded by four brothers, Stephan, Lawr ...
store was added as an out-parcel to the mall site; it later became a
Best Buy
Best Buy Co. Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebra ...
store that closed in 2018. The site was then occupied by a toy store called Toy City, owned by Party City.
On September 7, 1990,
Nordstrom
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opened its first New Jersey location, building a $37 million, , three-level store on the former Hahne's site. In 1996, the luxury department store chain
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 ...
opened a store in the mall, which was its seventh in the state at the time.
In 1996, Garden State Plaza marked the completion of a $200 million expansion and major remodeling project that added over of retail space and two four level parking structures, Parking Garage A, and Parking Garage B. The downstairs food court was connected to the lower level from the previous expansion. J. C. Penney grew by , and two new anchors were added, a
Neiman Marcus
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on three levels and a
Lord & Taylor
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on two levels, both targeted at the upscale fashion-conscious shopper. A Venetian carousel was also added at that time of the expansion and remodeling and was located in front of Macy's. The carousel closed in 2016, and was removed so that the mall could use that space for performances by the
Bergen Performing Arts Center
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.
Westfield acquired the mall in 1986 from Macy's in a deal that also included New Jersey's
Brunswick Square Mall
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and
Quaker Bridge Mall
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.
The Borough of Paramus petitioned the
New Jersey Supreme Court
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to review a decision by borough's Planning Board, asking it to review the plans to construct a "entertainment lifestyle precinct" at the mall that included a 16-screen
AMC
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movie theater and 10 specialty retail stores, along with a parking lot below the new wing, known as "Parking Garage C".Verdon, Joan "These aren't your mother's shopping malls" ''
The Record
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Music
* ''The Record'' (album), a 1982 studio album by the hardcore-punk band Fear
* The Records, an English power pop band
* '' Their Greatest Hits: The Record'', a 2001 greatest-hits album by the pop-music group Bee Ge ...
'', February 11, 2007. Accessed February 13, 2021. "Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, the region's largest mall, with more than 2 million square feet of stores, has decided that today's malls don't live by shopping alone. It is adding a 163,000-square-foot "entertainment lifestyle precinct." It will include a 16-screen movie theater with stadium seating, a restaurant and 10 specialty retailers, including 'experiential' stores where shoppers are encouraged to try out the merchandise before they buy." The petition was turned down, and the mall celebrated its 50th anniversary with the new expansion and stores opened on May 25, 2007.
In 2013, the mall rebuilt Parking Garage B, expanding it to five levels and 1,800 parking spaces. Adjacent were built a new guest services office and a valet lounge. A year later, the mall added a wing at a cost of $160 million known as the "Fashion District" that has 22 stores and restaurants.
In January 2018, Best Buy announced that they would be closing their two-level store at Garden State Plaza and would be relocating to a single-floor building to be constructed at
The Outlets at Bergen Town Center
Bergen Town Center (formerly known as The Outlets at Bergen Town Center) is a shopping center located in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. The center consists of both an indoor mall and exterior outlying stores and occupies over 105 acres split be ...
The Record
The Record may refer to:
Music
* ''The Record'' (album), a 1982 studio album by the hardcore-punk band Fear
* The Records, an English power pop band
* '' Their Greatest Hits: The Record'', a 2001 greatest-hits album by the pop-music group Bee Ge ...
'', January 17, 2018. Accessed January 27, 2018. "The freestanding Best Buy store in the parking lot of Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus will be empty soon, and that will give New Jersey's largest mall an opportunity to make some new moves.Best Buy is preparing to relocate to the mall next door, The Outlets at Bergen Town Center, in a new building under construction in the east section of that mall, on Forest Avenue." The store officially moved on April 14, 2018. J. C. Penney closed on March 10, 2018.Attrino, Anthony G "J.C. Penney quietly closing another N.J. store after 60 years at mall" NJ Advance Media for
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, January 26, 2017. Accessed January 27, 2018. "J.C. Penney, an anchor for 60 years at the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, will close on March 10, according to a recording on the store's phone line.... After its 1958 Paramus opening, the Westfield Garden State Plaza -- located on Route 17 near Route 4 -- expanded and grew around the retailer, NorthJersey.com reported. The store was remodeled in 2012 and 2013, according to the report." Both stores are expected to be redeveloped by Westfield in the future, though as of October 2018, no such development has been announced. In July 2018
North Jersey Media Group
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reported that Uniqlo will be relocating from Westfield Garden State Plaza to
Paramus Park
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Description
Paramus Park is located on a plot of land between the no ...
. The Paramus Park Uniqlo officially opened on March 1, 2019. Westfield Garden State Plaza announced plans to build a mixed development center in the old JCPenney space.
In July 2019,
Tru Kids
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announced that one of two
Toys "R" Us
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stores being opened by that company as part of that toy retailer's recovery from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2017 and its acquisition by Tru Kids, would be at Garden State Plaza. (The other would be opened at
The Galleria
The Galleria, stylized theGalleria and also known as the Houston Galleria, is an upscale mixed-use urban development and shopping mall located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States.mixed-use projects with dining and other retail on the ground floors of the buildings and housing on the upper floors, which would be constructed in areas now covered by parking lots on the periphery of the mall. Construction of this housing would count towards the borough's affordable housing obligations and would serve as a downtown "town square" for Paramus.Pries, Allison "Garden State Plaza, N.J's biggest mall, is getting a massive makeover" NJ Advance Media for
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, May 1, 2019, updated September 24, 2019. Accessed March 1, 2021. "When Paramus redid its master plan a couple of years ago, Mayor Richard LaBarbiera said, it zoned the Routes 4 and 17 commercial corridor for mixed use, which allows for residential units to be built on top of retail. The zoning was implemented for two reasons, he said Wednesday: to make sure Paramus' commercial entities could remain competitive and to satisfy the borough's affordable housing obligation. Half of Paramus' tax base is commercial. And Garden State Plaza pays one of every ten tax dollars."
On August 27, 2020, Lord & Taylor, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 2, announced that it would close all 38 of its stores.
Blue laws
Due to New Jersey state
blue law
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traffic congestion
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on the highways in the borough. During the aftermath of
Hurricane Sandy
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,
Governor of New Jersey
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Chris Christie
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issued an executive order that suspended the state's blue laws, allowing stores to be open on Sunday, November 4, 2012, for the benefit of those severely affected by the hurricane. A week later, after a public outcry that included the mayor of Paramus announcing that the borough would continue to enforce its own restrictions, the state's blue laws were put back into effect.
Public transportation
Westfield Garden State Plaza serves as a local transportation hub. The mall is served by NJ Transit bus lines routes
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Incidents
On November 4, 2013, 20-year-old Richard Shoop, armed with a SIG 556R semi-automatic rifle, fired multiple shots in the mall. Customers and employees were evacuated immediately from the mall premises shortly after the shots were fired and the mall was on lockdown for hours. The mall remained closed the following day. No one was injured or killed, other than Shoop himself, who committed suicide at 3:20 AM.
Popular culture
* Garden State Plaza is the setting for
Tricia Sullivan
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She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995. In 1999 she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her no ...
's science fiction novel ''Maul'' (2002). The novel takes its title from the way that the word "mall" is pronounced with the New Jersey accent. In the novel, three teenage girls start a shoot out with a local gang.
* Several episodes of ''
The Sopranos
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'', the
HBO
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mob drama were filmed at the mall, which was called the "Paramus Mall".
* The 2005 ''
Sesame Street
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''
direct-to-video
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special ''All Star Alphabet'', featuring
Stephen Colbert
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and
Nicole Sullivan
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The New York Times
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'', September 4, 2005. Accessed July 19, 2019. "When it came time to choose a shopping center, the video's makers headed, quite naturally, to New Jersey. Mr. Colbert, dressed as a big blue letter Z, and Ms. Sullivan, appearing as a big red A, are shown in the video ambling around the Garden State Mall, asking people if they know any words with their letters in them. Ms. Sullivan got a lot more responses than Mr. Colbert."
See also
*
Shopping malls in New Jersey
Shopping malls in New Jersey have played a major role in shaping the suburban landscape of the state following World War II.
History
New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the United States, and in the suburban sphere of influence of b ...
*
Westfield Group
Westfield Group was an Australian shopping centre company that existed from 1960 to 2014, when it split into two independent companies: Scentre Group, which owns and operates the Australian and New Zealand Westfield shopping centre portfolio; ...
International Council of Shopping Centers
The International Council of Shopping Centers, doing business as ICSC, is the global trade association of what it calls the "Marketplaces Industry" (i.e., shopping centers, shopping malls, and all other retail real estate). Founded in 1957, it fe ...
Garden State Plaza
Garden State Plaza (officially Westfield Garden State Plaza) is a shopping mall located in Paramus, New Jersey. It is owned and managed by Paris-based real estate management company Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and located at the intersection of ...