Location New Rochelle, New York Closing date 1996 No. of anchor tenants 1 Number of stores and services 100 | Opening date 1968 No. of stores and services 100 Opened 1968 Number of anchor tenants 1 | |
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Address Main Street and Le Count Place Similar Pioneer Building, Loew's Theatre - New Roc, New Rochelle Trust Buil, Quaker Ridge, RKO Proctor's Theater | ||
New Rochelle Mall (also known as the Macy's Mall) was an enclosed shopping mall located in the downtown business district of the suburban city of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, and which closed in 1996.
The mall complex covered four large downtown blocks and was composed of 100 retail shops covering 338,000 square feet (31,400 m2), a three-level, 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) department store, and a 1,900-car garage. It also included a 1204-seat Century Mall Theater as well as being linked to an adjacent eight-story office building and hotel tower, both of which still remain.
Plans were in the works for the mall to undergo a $30 million, 50 percent expansion, with the addition of a 12-story building that was to include a 12-screen movie theater and eight floors of offices. The expansion, intended to aid in the revitalization of New Rochelle's downtown, was scheduled for completion in 1991. Those developments were never completed.
The mall's end came with the bankruptcy of Macy's and its closing of the New Rochelle branch in 1992. The vacancy rate in the mall by then was already high, and the mall was formally closed and demolished by spring 1998. It was eventually replaced by the New Roc City entertainment complex which opened in 1999. New Roc features a 19-screen movie theater, Westchester County's first IMAX theater (preceding White Plains City Center's Cinema de Lux), a health club, an ice rink (now Monroe College Athletic Center), restaurants, shopping centers and an indoor amusement park.