Garden State Plaza
Shopping mall in Paramus, New Jersey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Garden State Plaza (officially Westfield Garden State Plaza) is a shopping mall located in Paramus, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Owned and managed by Paris-based real estate management company Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the mall is situated at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 17 near the Garden State Parkway, about 15 miles (24 km) west of the New York City borough of Manhattan.[5] Opened in 1957 as the first suburban shopping mall in New Jersey,[3][6] it has 300 stores[5] and 2,118,718 sq ft (196,835.3 m2) of leasable space,[4][7] ranked in 2022 as the 16th-largest shopping mall in United States[8] and qualifying it as a super-regional mall according to the standards of the International Council of Shopping Centers.[9]
Location | Paramus, New Jersey |
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Coordinates | 40.91896°N 74.07639°W / 40.91896; -74.07639 |
Address | 1 Garden State Plaza |
Opening date | May 1, 1957[1] |
Developer | R.H. Macy Company[1] |
Management | Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield |
Owner | Unibail-Rodamco Westfield |
No. of stores and services | 300 (As of March 2014)[2] |
No. of anchor tenants | 3 at 1957 opening[3] |
Total retail floor area | 2,118,718 sq ft (196,835.3 m2)[4] |
No. of floors | 2 (3 in Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom) |
Parking | Parking lot, parking garage, and valet parking with 10,796 parking spaces.[4] |
Public transit access | NJ Transit bus: 163, 171, 175, 707, 709, 756, 758, 770 |
Website | westfield |
The mall had sales of $775 per square foot in 2013, almost 75% above the national average.[10] In a study of malls in the United States performed on behalf of CNBC, published in 2018, Garden State Plaza ranked ninth in the nation, based on sales of $950 per square foot.[11] Most of the mall, especially retail outlets, is closed on Sunday in accordance with state and local blue laws.[12] Since April 2023, minors under the age of 18 are required to have an adult over 21 supervise them on Friday and Saturday nights.[13]
In a borough where half of the property tax revenue comes from retail properties, Garden State Plaza accounts for 10% of the property taxes collected in Paramus.[14]
As of August 2022, its anchors are Macy's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and AMC Theatres.[15][16]