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in Suffolk County, Long Island,

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, in the United States. The mall is owned by the Namdar Realty Group, and has of

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. The mall features the traditional chains

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, and

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. Restaurants in the mall include Panera Bread,

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and

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History

The mall was opened in 1963 by the R.H. Macy Company, which opened the 3-level, Macy's as the original anchor. The open-air, 70-store first phase of the mall was completed by 1967, and originally included stores such as

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, Woolworth's,

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, Bond's, and

, which was the first in-line JCPenney location in the New York area at the time. 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. The mall was fully enclosed in 1975. In December 1986, the mall's ownership was sold to the Westfield Corporation for $85 million. 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 of new retail area, along with a newly built, three-level (216,300 ft²)

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, which opened in September 1997. A two-level (120,000 ft²)

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eventually opened in late 1998, replacing the former Woolworth. 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. On June 16, 2016,

announced that it would be opening in the former Sears space. On August 27, 2020, Lord & Taylor announced it would shutter its brick-and-mortar fleet after modernizing into a digital collective department store. On January 3, 2023,

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sold this mall along with Westfield Trumbull in

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for a combined deal of $196 million to the Namdar Realty Group.

References

External links

Official website
{{New York City Malls Shopping malls in Suffolk County, New York Shopping malls established in 1963 Shopping malls in the New York metropolitan area Namdar Realty Group