Patrick Henry Mall

infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = Patrick Henry Mall


caption = The sign for Patrick Henry Mall
location =Newport News, Virginia
opening_date = 1988
developer=Crown American
manager=
owner = Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust
number_of_stores = 120+
number_of_anchors = 3
floor_area = 700,000+ sq. ft.
floors = 1
parking = Lighted Lot
website =http://www.shoppatrickhenrymall.com

Patrick Henry Mall is a shopping mall in Newport News, Virginia. It is located on Interstate 64 Westbound and Jefferson Ave at exit 255A. Patrick Henry Mall, which is named after Patrick Henry, opened as the Peninsula area's second enclosed regional mall in 1988 after Coliseum Mall in Hampton 15 years earlier in 1973. The mall is shaped as a compass with Macy's in the north, JCPenney in the east, Dillard's at the south, and in the west wing is Hampton Roads' first in-mall lifestyle area including Dick's, Borders, and Red Robin, opened in 2006 during a mall-wide renovation.

Since the redevelopment of Coliseum Mall into the "Peninsula Town Center," Patrick Henry Mall is the only enclosed mall between Richmond's Regency Square and Simon Chesapeake Square in Chesapeake. Since 2003, along with the New River Valley Mall near Virginia Tech, it is one of two Virginia malls owned by the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust or PREIT.

Patrick Henry Mall is "The Best Shopping in the Peninsula," which is the mall's slogan.

Main anchors

*Borders Books
*Dick's Sporting Goods (55,000 sq ft.)
*Dillard's
*J.C. Penney
*Macy's

Incidents

*On December 4, 2007, a 14-year old boy shot a 51 year old woman in the hand in the parking lot near the food court at 7:30pm [ [http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_120407_shooting_patrick_henry.6a682129.html Woman Shot at Patrick Henry Mall] ] . The woman was going Christmas shopping for her husband and police found her lying on the ground with blood. The boy also robbed the woman. She was rushed to the Riverside Medical Center after the boy ran off, and recovered. On December 7, 2007, the Crime Line received a call that it was the boy and he was at his friend's house. He was arrested and sent to juvenile detention.

*On March 28, 2008, two Hampton teenagers were arrested because police found two guns near the bushes near Comfort Inn. One teenager who was 18 was charged because of marijuana possession. [ [http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newport_news/dp-local_localbrfs_04030apr03,0,3400135.story Police arrest two for gun, drug possession] ]

External links

[http://www.shoppatrickhenrymall.com/ Official website]

References