Cherry Hill Mall (shopping mall)

infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = Cherry Hill Mall


caption =
location = Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA
coordinates = coord|39.941|-75.025|display=inline,title
opening_date = October, 1961
developer = The Rouse Company
manager = PREIT
owner = PREIT
number_of_stores = 160
number_of_anchors = 3
floor_area = convert|1283000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on.
floors = 1 (Macy's wing); 2 (JCPenney and Nordstrom wings)
website = [http://www.cherryhillmall.com]
parking = lighted lot and parking deck (opening soon)

"For the Census Designated Place of the same name, see Cherry Hill Mall, New Jersey"

Cherry Hill Mall, owned by .

Cherry Hill Mall is located at 2000 Route 38 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08002 and is bound by Rt 38, Haddonfield Road, Church Road, and Cherry Hill Mall Drive.

The center was designed, built, and managed by The Rouse Company. Rouse reorganized as a 'Real Estate Investment Trust' in 1994 and became known as Liberty Property Trust. Liberty sold its shopping center portfolio to Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) in 2003 as PREIT converted its holdings from residential to retail.

The mall has a gross leasable area of convert|1283000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on. [ [http://www.icsc.org/apps/dmmdisp.php?dispid=NJ0060 International Council of Shopping Centers: Cherry Hill Mall] , accessed September 21, 2006] placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey.

Cherry Hill Mall is widely held to be the source of the 1962 renaming of what had been called Delaware Township to its current name of Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey. In fact, the town was named Cherry Hill in a voter referendum due to the development of a new US Postal Service office for the region, and historical ties to Cherry Hill Farm, which once occupied land opposite the current mall site.

Renovation & Expansion

Currently, Cherry Hill Mall is under construction inside and out to become South Jersey's only upscale mall. A parking deck and new Grand Court are in progress, along with approximately 140,000 sqare feet of new retail space. The food court has been relocated to the north end of the complex (now the Cherry Hill Cafes), and about six new restaurants will be constructed.

The mall's south-facing facade along Rt 38 will become known as Bistro Row, and the changes will turn the facade of the mall inside-out, creating new access points to the structure with new facades and entrances.

Nordstrom will build a new department store where the now-demolished Strawbridge's department store once stood, which was convert|258000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on. [ [http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/15511831.htm Nordstrom to open store in Cherry Hill Mall in 2009] , "Philadelphia Daily News", September 13, 2006] .

In addition, two pad sites recently opened: Crate & Barrel and The Container Store. The Mall's expansion will be complete in 2009.

Anchors

*JCPenney (convert|174000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on)
*Macy's (convert|317000|sqft|m2|-2|abbr=on)
*Nordstrom (Opening March 27, 2009) [ [http://about.nordstrom.com/ourstores/openings/openings.asp New Store Openings - Nordstrom ] ]
*Old Navy (convert|18431|sqft|m2|0|abbr=on)

Majors

*Abercrombie & Fitch
*Armani Exchange
*Apple Store
*Banana Republic
*bebe
*Coach
*Crate & Barrel
*H&M
*Hollister Co.
*The Container Store
*The Gap

tores coming in expansion

*Nordstrom (new store at former Strawbridge & Clothier site)
*Maggiano's Little Italy (anticipated opening fall 2008)
*Anthropologie
*Garage
*BCBG Max Azria (now open)
*Urban Outfitters
*Swarovski
*Movado

Former anchors

* Strawbridge's ("torn down; Nordstrom and other stores will open on site in 2009")
* Bamberger's (now Macy's)
* Woolworth
* Tower Records
* Food Fair (renamed Pantry Pride in the mid-1970s), demolished for JCPenney wing
* Kresge, Kmart predecessor, located across from Food Fair

References

External links

* [http://www.cherryhillmall.com Cherry Hill Mall website]
* [http://www.icsc.org/apps/dmmdisp.php?dispid=NJ0060 International Council of Shopping Centers: Cherry Hill Mall]
* [http://www.paulaltobelli.com/2006/10/cherry-hill-mall-postcards.htm?dispid=NJ0060 Vintage Cherry Hill Mall Postcards]