The Mall at Fox Run, formerly Fox Run Mall, is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

Newington, New Hampshire Newington is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 811 at the 2020 census. It is bounded to the west by Great Bay, to the northwest by Little Bay and to the northeast by the Piscataqua River. Newington ...

, just north of

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. Its main anchor stores include,

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Men's & Home Store (formerly

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) and Macy's Women's (formerly

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). At , it is New Hampshire's fourth-largest mall, with 84 shops, all on one level. Completed in 1983, this mall functioned mainly as a successor to the smaller and dated Newington Mall, which has since been converted into a big box retail center. The mall is located just off

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and the

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( NH Route 16). It is less than five minutes from

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. The mall is just from the

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state border, and like the Pheasant Lane Mall and the Mall at Rockingham Park near the

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border, the Fox Run Mall draws a significant portion of its business from out-of-state customers (mostly from Maine) seeking to take advantage of New Hampshire's tax-free retail climate. For many years, the Mall at Fox Run had four anchor department stores:

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, J. C. Penney,

(formerly

), and

. The Filene's brand was discontinued following the Federated and

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merger. Fox Run was one of a small number of malls where the former Filene's (or

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) store was converted into a second Macy's store. The other malls that have done this are the

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, and the

Northshore Mall The Northshore Mall is a shopping mall in Peabody, Massachusetts. As of 2025, the mall currently features Macy's in two locations, and JCPenney. The mall is near the Route 128 and Route 114 junction, and less than a mile from the Simon-owne ...

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. This gives Macy's at Fox Run a total area of nearly , on par with many of the intermediate-sized Macy's stores nationwide, and makes Macy's the largest department store (in total square feet) in the mall. In 2015,

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spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at the Mall at Fox Run, into Seritage Growth Properties. On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of its plan to close 142 stores nationwide. The space has been empty since 2019. The mall was originally managed by

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, and from 2011 through 2017 by Simon Properties. From January 1, 2018 until August 3, 2023, the mall was leased and managed by Spinoso Real Estate Group. Since then, it has been acquired by Massachusetts-based property management group Torrington Properties for $17.5 million dollars. In addition to the mall, Torrington also owns the adjacent Newington Park Shopping Center, which they took ownership of in 2021. It was announced in February 2025 that JCPenney would be closing on May 25, 2025, leaving the two Macy's stores as the last anchors.

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