Plymouth Meeting Mall is a 952,200 square foot (88.460Ã, m 2 ) shopping center in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, about 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Center City, Philadelphia. It is located on Germantown Pike and Hickory Road, near the Mid-County Exchange where the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276) crosses the Northeast Extension/Blue Route (I-476). This mall was built by The Rouse Company in 1966. This mall has a fountain and a carousel.
The Plymouth Meeting Mall currently contains over 80 specialty stores and restaurants, including the Central Food Court, and the remote restaurant California Pizza Kitchen, P.F. Chang, Redstone American Grill, Dave & amp; Buster's, Benihana, Bertucci's, and King Buffet. The original anchor keeps Strawbridge & amp; Clothier and Lit Brothers are now occupied by an empty space (which is Macy's until 2017) and Boscov's. The Boscov site was once home to one of Hess's biggest branches. There is also a 48,000 square foot (4,500 m 2 ) AMC Theater on the property, featuring 12 screens and stadium seats. The Plymouth Meeting Mall is one of the first malls in North America that, among a mix of shops, offers a church inside the mall. The mall is owned and managed by PREIT (The Real Estate Investment Trust of Pennsylvania).
This mall can be recognized from a considerable distance because of the nine-tier office tower, One Plymouth Meeting. The tower, which contains 167,748 square feet (15,584.3 m 2 ) of office space, is managed by Mack-Cali Realty Corporation.
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History
The Plymouth Meeting Mall was built by The Rouse Company in 1966, it is the third fully covered shopping center in the Philadelphia area. The original store stores Strawbridge & amp; Clothier and Lit Brothers. The One Plymouth Meeting office tower was added to the outparcel in 1969. The mall underwent a major fire on January 10, 1970 at the eastern end (near Lit Brothers): "About a third of the 100 stores in Philadelphia mall in the suburbs are damaged either by smoke, water or fire. "Lit Brothers closed in 1976 and was replaced by Hess in 1979. The Hess's, which is the only location in the Philadelphia area, saw poor sales and closed in March 1993 as part of a chain restructuring. Former Hess's became Boscov on October 13, 1996. In 2003, The Rouse Company sold Plymouth Meeting Mall along with Cherry Hill Mall, Echelon Mall, Exton Square Mall, Moorestown Mall, and The Gallery at Market East for PREIT for $ 548 million. In 2005, the Department Store Federation purchased May Department Stores, the owner of Strawbridge's, and converted several Strawbridge locations to Macy's, including a store at the Plymouth Meeting Mall. Strawbridge became Macy in 2006.
The redevelopment of more than $ 100 million in 2008-2009 adds a new restaurant and open "Lifestyle" wings featuring LOFT, Coldwater Creek (now closed), Jos A. Bank, Chico, and Olly Shoes. The upscale 65,000-square-foot Whole Foods grocery market (6,000 m 2 ) is included in the redevelopment and anchor "Space Lifestyle" of the property, which also includes an underground parking area. Previously, this location gained fame in 1985 when the Swedish furniture company IKEA bought and renovated a wider space for its first US location. IKEA then moved in early 2003 to its current location on 400 Alan Wood Road, outside the "Blue Route" at nearby Conshohocken.
In recent years the interior of the Plymouth Meeting Mall has increased vacancies, with sales of $ 320 per square foot in the three months ending September 2015. By 2015, it was announced that 33,000 square feet (3,100 m of soup> 2 ) Legoland Discovery The Center will be built at the Plymouth Meeting Mall, replacing some of the food courts. Construction begins in the summer of 2016 with a planned opening in 2017. On January 4, 2017, it was announced that Macy will be closed in spring 2017 as part of a plan to close 68 stores nationwide.
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References
External links
- The Plymouth Meeting Mall website.
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