Queens Place is an urban shopping mall in Elmhurst,

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. Just northwest of the larger

Queens Center Queens Center Mall is an urban shopping mall in Elmhurst, Queens, Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, on Queens Boulevard between 57th Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, one block away from Queens Place Mall. Queens Center Mall is the largest mall in ...

, it is located on

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between 55th and 56th Avenues. The building was constructed in 1965 as

Macy's Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34 ...

and was designed by

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. It was later converted to

Stern's Stern's was a regional department store chain serving the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. The chain was in business for more than 130 years. In 2001, Stern's parent company Federated Department Stores opted to retire the Stern's bran ...

, due to Macy's of Elmhurst moving into Queens Center, as part of Macy's dissolving of

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, in 1994, and then, as a result of Macy's dissolving Stern's in 2001, closed by

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. Today its flagship stores are

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, Macy's Furniture Gallery and

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, and it contains many smaller stores such as

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and

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History

R. H. Macy & Co. announced plans in 1964 to develop a circular

department store on

Elmhurst, Queens Elmhurst (formerly Newtown) is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bounded by Roosevelt Avenue on the north; the Long Island Expressway on the south; Junction Boulevard on the east; and the New York Connecting Rail ...

, New York. The store, described in ''The New York Times'' as the "first of its kind" in the U.S., was to be a three-story building surrounded by five parking decks. The building was designed by architectural firm

and erected by Walter Kidde Constructors. The building opened in 1965. Macy's occupied the structure until 1995 and was replaced by

, which moved out during 2000.

, which owned both Macy's and Stern's, sold the building in May 2001 to

Forest City Ratner Forest City Realty Trust, Inc., formerly Forest City Enterprises, was a real estate investment trust that invested in office buildings, shopping centers and apartments in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and the great ...

, which added two floors and converted the building into the Queens Place Mall. On December 22, 2017, Queens Place was acquired by Madison International Realty from Forest City Realty Trust. The real estate private equity firm had previously acquired a 49% stake in the Forest City portfolio in 2011 and purchased the remaining 51% in 2017. French bank

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refinanced the property with a $100 million loan in April 2018. On January 9, 2025, it was announced that Macy's Backstage would be closing as part of a plan to close 66 stores nationwide. The store will close in March 2025.

Architecture and design

Queens Place is bounded by Queens Boulevard to the southwest, 56th Avenue to the south, 90th Street to the east, Justice Avenue to the northeast, and 55th Avenue to the north and northwest. The main entrance to the Queens Place Mall faces Queens Boulevard, while there is a parking garage entrance on 56th Avenue and 90th Street.

is one block southeast on Queens Boulevard, between 57th and 59th Avenues. The building was originally planned to be completely round. However, Mary Sendek—the owner of the corner house at 55th Avenue and Queens Boulevard— held out and refused to sell the property, her childhood home. The mall was reconfigured with a small notch on one corner, to accommodate the air space associated with Sendek's property. Sendek continued to live in the small house until her death in 1980.

Tenants

Current

* Macy's Furniture Gallery *

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* Mrs. Fields *

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* Teriyaki One Japanese Grill

Former

* Macy's Backstage * DSW *

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References

External links

Queens Place official website

Queens Place Mall (Aerial & Street View)

forestcity.net
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