Westfield Connecticut Post

Westfield Connecticut Post
Westfield Connecticut Post
Location Milford, Connecticut, U.S.
Opening date 1960
Owner The Westfield Group
No. of stores and services 215 [1]
No. of anchor tenants 5
Total retail floor area 1,334,000 square feet (116,332 m²)[2]
No. of floors 3
Website westfield.com/connecticutpost

Westfield Connecticut Post, originally the Connecticut Post Shopping Center and later the Connecticut Post Mall, is a three-story shopping mall, located on the Boston Post Road (Route 1) in Milford, Connecticut. It is currently owned and operated by The Westfield Group. It was built by Sol Atlas[3] and opened in 1960,[4] anchored by a Caldor discount department store and a Stop & Shop supermarket at opposite ends.[5] In 1962, the sixth branch of the Alexander's department store chain opened.[6] Initially, all the stores in the mall were on a single level and the mall was open air but it was enclosed in 1981.[5] Today, it is one of the largest malls in Connecticut, containing over 215 shops. The 5 major stores are Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Target.

The North side of the Westfield Connecticut Post

Contents

Expansion

The mall underwent a renovation in the late 1980s which added the Skyview Cafe food court, and losing an anchor store, Alexander's.

The Mall strongly opposed the proposed rival New Haven Galleria mall at Long Wharf, filing over 15 lawsuits.[7][8]

A $118 million[9] 480,000-square-foot (45,000 m2)[10] expansion project took place in 2005-2006, adding:

  • an additional level of parking
  • a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2)[10] third floor to Macy's
  • a large extension to the building with a 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m2)[10] movie theater (Connecticut Post 14 Cinema de Lux, replacing the Milford Fourplex, previously located in an adjacent building), a new food court, and two more anchors, Dick's Sporting Goods and Target.

Anchor stores

Current anchors

Former anchors

References

  1. ^ Westfield
  2. ^ "Largest Connecticut Shopping Malls". http://www.easternct.edu/~pocock/MallsConn.htm. 
  3. ^ "Shopping Center Set for Milford", New York Times, July 29, 1956
  4. ^ International Council of Shopping Centers - "Fresh Start", by Debra Hazel - accessed 27 January 2007
  5. ^ a b Connecticut Post Center
  6. ^ "Alexander Chain Opens 6th Store", New York Times, August 21, 1962
  7. ^ Yale Herald Online - "New Haven sues Milford in latest Long Wharf mall battle", by Sangeetha Ramaswamy, 2000? - accessed 27 January 2007
  8. ^ New Haven Advocate - "Retail of Woe", by Carole Bass, 1998? - accessed 27 January 2007
  9. ^ Connecticut Post - link defunct
  10. ^ a b c New Haven Register - "Expansion of Milford mall off until spring" by Brian McCready, 13 November 2003 - accessed 27 January 2007

External links

Coordinates: 41°14′13″N 73°02′17″W / 41.236965°N 73.038087°W / 41.236965; -73.038087



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