Bay Plaza Shopping Center

40°52′4″N 73°49′31″W / 40.86778°N 73.82528°W / 40.86778; -73.82528 Bay Plaza Shopping Center is a shopping center on the south side of Co-op City in the Bronx, New York City. In addition to various department stores and shops, such as Macy's, JCPenney, Staples, and Old Navy, it has a multiplex movie theater, several restaurants, a fitness club, and some office space. Constructed from 1987 to 1988 by Prestige Properties, the shopping center is located between Bartow and Baychester Avenues, just outside Sections 4 and 5 of Co-op City, on an open lot that was the site of the Freedomland U.S.A. amusement park between 1960 and 1964. The Bay Plaza Shopping Center is the largest shopping center in New York City. Since opening over 25 years ago, it has become extremely successful, the center claims to hold some of the highest performing stores on a per-square-foot basis for many national retailers.^[1]

Bay Plaza Shopping Center

Location	The Bronx, New York
Opening date	1988
Owner	Prestige Properties
No. of stores and services	100+
No. of anchor tenants	6
Total retail floor area	2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m^2)
No. of floors	3 (Mall at Bay Plaza), 1 (other sections)

Expansion

The Mall at Bay Plaza is expansion project of Bay Plaza Shopping Center. The 780,000 square feet (72,000 m²) center encloses a fashion mall with stores like JCPenney, Macy's and over 100 specialty stores and food court as well as a 1,800-car parking garage. It opened on August 14, 2014.^[2][3] The Mall at Bay Plaza is the first enclosed anchored fashion mall opened in the New York City area in almost 40 years after Queens Center opened in 1973.^[4] The developer hired the Los Angeles-based architectural firm Altoon & Porter Architects as the builder, and also hired Aurora Contractors — a New York-based firm — as Construction Manager.

The mall, which is located at the Hutchinson River Parkway and I-95, has helped grow what is already the city’s largest shopping center (now 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m²)) to approximately 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m²) upon its summer 2014 completion. A new 160,000 square feet (15,000 m²), three-level Macy’s and the existing 150,000 square feet (14,000 m²) JCPenney anchors the development, which also has a 1,800-car parking garage. An H&M store, the first in the borough, opened in the mall.^[5] It created more than 2,000 construction jobs and 1,700 permanent jobs.^[6] It costs US$65 million.^[7]

References

1. "The Mall at Bay Plaza ::: About Us". mallatbayplaza.com.
2. . News 12 Bronx. 30 January 2014. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
3. "Prestige Properties unveils plans for $270 million The Mall Bay Plaza Shopping Center in the Bronx". New England Real Estate Journal. 23 November 2011.
4. . rew-online.com. 19 February 2014. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
5. Tiffany Yannetta (13 February 2014). "H&M Is Opening Its First Store in the Bronx This Year". Racked NY. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
6. "MORE RETAIL COMING - Real Estate Bisnow (NY)". www.bisnow.com. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
7. "The Mall at Bay Plaza".

External links

• Mall at Bay Plaza