Auburn Mall
Inside the Auburn Mall
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Location385 Southbridge St., Auburn, Massachusetts, United States
Opening date1971
DeveloperJMB Realty
ManagementSimon Property Group
OwnerSimon Property Group (56.4%)
No. of stores and services59[1]
No. of anchor tenants3 (2 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area583,739 square feet (54,231.1 m2)[1]
No. of floors1 (2 in anchors)
Websitesimon.com/mall/auburn-mall

The Auburn Mall, managed by Simon Property Group, which owns 56.1% of it, is an enclosed shopping mall located on Route 12 in Auburn, Massachusetts, United States, near the intersection of the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) and I-290/I-395.

The mall features Macy's as an anchor.[2][3]

History

The mall was originally built in 1971 and featured Denholm's and Sears as anchors.[4] Denholm's was converted to Forbes & Wallace, and later to The Outlet, a Providence, Rhode Island-based department store chain. The Outlet store closed in the 1980s and was replaced with Caldor.

The mall underwent a significant renovation in 1997 which added Filene's as a third anchor.[5] Caldor closed in 1999 and was converted to a Filene's home store.[6] In 2006, the two Filene's stores in the mall were both converted to Macy's.

In October 2015, the mall unveiled plans to add a 10-screen cinema and restaurant in the space occupied by Macy's Home Store which closed on December 1, 2015.[7] By April 2016, those plans were approved.[8] However, in November 2016, the mall abandoned previous plans and proposed a new medical center for the Macy's Home Store space.[9] On June 16, 2017, the mall announced that Reliant Medical Group signed a 20-year lease and opened in the space formerly occupied by Macy's Home Store on February 18, 2019.[10]

On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Sears would be closing on February 16, 2020, as part of a plan to close 96 stores nationwide which left Macy's as the only anchor left.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Auburn Mall. mallsandstores.info. Retrieved: 22 February 2015
  2. ^ "Auburn Mall: A Simon Mall" (PDF). 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  3. ^ "Reliant Medical To Open At Auburn Mall". Worcester, MA Patch. 2017-06-16. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  4. ^ "Auburn Mall, Massachusetts (Auburn) | hours, store directory". www.mallsandstores.info. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  5. ^ "Auburn Mall; Auburn Massachusetts". Labelscar. 2006-09-18. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  6. ^ "Auburn Mall; Auburn Massachusetts". Labelscar. 2006-09-18. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  7. ^ "Auburn Mall to add theater and restaurant". Worcester Business Journal. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  8. ^ "Auburn Mall to get movie theater, restaurant in 2017". Worcester Business Journal. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  9. ^ Semon, Craig S. "New Auburn Mall plans substitute medical center for movie theater". telegram.com. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  10. ^ "Reliant Medical To Open At Auburn Mall". Worcester, MA Patch. 2017-06-16. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  11. ^ Ciment, Shoshy. "Sears is closing 96 more stores, leaving only 182 stores left in the US. Here's the full list of the ones closing". Business Insider.

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