Wilmorite Properties, Inc is a commercial real estate company based in

Chili, New York Chili ( ) is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. The population was 28,625 at the 2010 census. It is a suburb of the city of Rochester. The Town of Chili was established in 1822 from part of the Town of Riga. North Chili was a st ...

, a suburb of

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, ...

. A subsidiary of the company owes significant back taxes and fees to the City of Rochester resulting from a loan and tax agreement surrounding the failed development of the Sibley Building. The company manages

Eastview Mall Eastview Mall, located in Victor, New York (near Rochester, New York), is an upscale indoor shopping center owned and managed by Wilmorite Properties. The mall is anchored by the traditional chains Von Maur, Macy's, JCPenney, and Dick's House ...

The Mall at Greece Ridge The Mall at Greece Ridge is located in Greece, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York, and managed by Wilmorite Properties. It contains 119 stores and restaurants in the main concourse. The mall is anchored by the traditional chains Macy's, JCPe ...

The Marketplace Mall The Marketplace Mall is a shopping center managed by Wilmorite and located on Hylan Drive in Henrietta, New York, a suburb of Rochester. The space at the southeast corner of West Henrietta Road (NY 15) and Jefferson Road ( NY 252) was previously ...

, and Pittsford Plaza, all of which are in Rochester.

History

James P. Wilmot founded the company in the 1940s and since then, Wilmorite has developed retail, office, hotel, and residential real estate. In 1967, Wilmorite built Greece Towne Mall (now

), one of the first enclosed regional malls in

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. In 1969, Wilmorite opened Long Ridge Mall and combined Greece Towne Mall and Long Ridge Mall in 1994, renaming it The Mall at Greece Ridge Center, dropping "Center" in 2006. In 2005, the majority of the assets of the company were acquired by

Macerich Macerich ( ) is a real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. It is the third-largest owner and operator of shopping centers in the United States. As of December 31, 2020, the company owned interests in 52 properties comprisi ...

Notable former properties

Camillus Mall Camillus Plaza (later Camillus Mall) and now known as Camillus Commons, was a shopping mall in Camillus, New York. Camillus Plaza opened in 1964 as a strip mall on the site of a former Kallet drive-in theater. Early anchors included A&P (later G ...

Charlestowne Mall Charlestowne Mall was a shopping mall located in St. Charles, Illinois, United States. It was the second mall to serve the city after St. Charles Mall. Built by Wilmorite Properties, Charlestowne Mall opened for business in April 1991. Its origin ...

* Danbury Fair Mall * Fairmount Fair * Fayetteville Mall *

Freehold Raceway Mall Freehold Raceway Mall is a super-regional high-end shopping mall, located in Freehold Township, New Jersey. A premier shopping center for Central Jersey, the mall is located off of U.S. Route 9, Route 33, and County Route 537, opposite the Freeh ...

* Great Northern Mall * Irondequoit Mall * Mohawk Mall *

Penn-Can Mall Penn-Can Mall was a mall in the town of Cicero, New York, north of Syracuse, New York, Syracuse. It opened on March 28, 1976. It was the first enclosed mall on the north end of Syracuse, and the fourth mall to be built in the entire metropolitan a ...

Rotterdam Square Via Port Rotterdam, formerly Rotterdam Square, is a shopping mall located in Rotterdam, New York, United States. When it opened, the mall was originally called Rotterdam Square and owned by Wilmorite Properties (who also owned Wilton Mall in Wilt ...

Shoppingtown Mall ShoppingTown Mall was a regional shopping mall in Dewitt, New York. First opened as an open-air shopping center in 1954, it was enclosed in 1973 and remained a major shopping center before being thrown out of business in March 2020 to make way for a ...

* Sibley Building *

Tysons Corner Center Tysons Corner Center is a shopping mall in the unincorporated area of Tysons in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States (between McLean and Vienna, Virginia). It opened to the public in 1968, becoming one of the first fully enclosed, climate-contr ...

Westshore Mall The Shops at Westshore, formerly Westshore Mall, is an open air shopping mall in Holland, Michigan. It opened in 1988 and the mall's anchor stores are Burlington and Dunham's Sports. There are 2 vacant anchor stores that were once JCPenney and Y ...

Wilton Mall at Saratoga Wilton Mall is a Shopping mall#Regional, regional shopping center, located off Interstate 87 (New York), Interstate 87 exit 15 in the town of Wilton, New York, Wilton, directly north of Saratoga Springs, New York. As of 2022, the mall currently ma ...

Park Point at RIT Park Point at RIT (originally referred to as "Collegetown" or "College Park") is a commercial enterprise on the northeast corner of Rochester Institute of Technology's campus in Rochester, New York. The property was initially being leased to Wilm ...

References

External links

Official Website
Real estate companies of the United States Companies based in Monroe County, New York Macerich 1940s establishments in New York (state) 2005 mergers and acquisitions {{US-retail-company-stub