Moorestown 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 ...

Moorestown, New Jersey Moorestown is a Township (New Jersey), township in Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is an eastern suburb of Philadelphia and geographically part of the South Jersey region of the state. As of ...

, owned by

PREIT PREIT is a privately held company that owns and develops shopping centers, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states. The company was formerly known as Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust. History The company was founded by Sylvan M. Cohen (1914-2 ...

. The mall has over 90 stores and is anchored by

Boscov's Boscov's Inc. is a family-owned department store with over fifty locations in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Connecticut, West Virginia, and Rhode Island. Twenty-six of the stores are located in Pennsylvania. Corpo ...

, Regal Cinemas, and Cooper University Health Care - Moorestown Campus. Junior anchors are

Five Below Five Below, Inc. is an American chain of specialty discount stores that prices most of its products at $5 or less, plus a smaller assortment of products priced up to $30. Founded in 2002 by Tom Vellios and David Schlessinger and headquartered in ...

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, and Sierra Trading Post, all located in a converted Macy's anchor store.

History

Moorestown Mall originally opened for business in 1963 with

Gimbels Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987. Gimbel patriarch Adam Gimbel opened his first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the comp ...

Wanamaker's Wanamaker's was an American department store chain founded in 1861 by John Wanamaker. It was one of the first department stores in the United States, and peaked at 16 locations along the Delaware Valley in the 20th century. Wanamaker's was pur ...

, and Woolworths as the original anchors. In 1971,

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

built a new store and relocated from Camden, NJ. Gimbels became

Stern's Stern's was a regional department store chain serving the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. The chain was in business for more than 130 years. In 2001, Stern's parent company Federated Department Stores opted to retire the Stern's bran ...

in 1986 and closed in 1990. It later became Ports of the World, a new concept by

only to be converted to Boscov's not long after. Moorestown Mall underwent a partial renovation in 1986 and was completely renovated in 1993-94, after a serious fire damaged the northeast quarter of the mall on December 23, 1992. Wanamaker's became Hecht's in 1995 and was later converted to

Strawbridge's Strawbridge's, formerly Strawbridge & Clothier, was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The Center City Philadelphia flagship store was, in its day, a gracious urban empori ...

. Prior to

The Rouse Company The Rouse Company was a publicly traded shopping mall and community developer from 1956 until 2004, when GGP Inc., General Growth Properties (GGP) purchased the company. It was founded by Hunter Moss and James Rouse, James W. Rouse in 1939. Begin ...

's purchase of the center in December 1997,

Lord & Taylor Lord & Taylor was an American department store chain founded in 1826 by Samuel Lord. It had 86 full-line stores in the Northeastern United States at its peak in the 2000s, and 38 locations at the time of its liquidation in 2021. The Lord & Tay ...

had committed to opening a store at the mall.

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also considered opening a location in

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but they did not commit to the mall's expansion plans. The Strawbridge's store was rebuilt in 1999. In an attempt to protect the Cherry Hill Mall, a mere away, The Rouse Company acquired the Moorestown Mall. PREIT acquired the Cherry Hill Mall,

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, Moorestown Mall, Exton Square,

Plymouth Meeting Mall The Plymouth Meeting Mall is a shopping mall that is located in the community of Plymouth Meeting in Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, approximately northwest of Center City, Philadelphia. It is situated at the intersection Germantown Pike ...

, and Gallery at Market East in exchange for

Christiana Mall Christiana Mall is a shopping mall located in Christiana, Delaware between the cities of Newark and Wilmington. The one-level, enclosed super-regional mall is situated at the intersection of Interstate 95 (exit 4A) and Delaware Route 1/ Delawar ...

on March 7, 2003. Strawbridge's became Macy's in 2006. Moorestown Mall4

In 2011, Moorestown residents voted to allow liquor sales at the Moorestown Mall in order to increase revenues at the mall. As a result, several upscale, polished casual restaurants have been opened, highlighted by the Philadelphia region's first

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sports-bar restaurant and Distrito, a restaurant from the Garces Group. On December 22, 2011, PREIT and the

Regal Entertainment Group Regal Cinemas (also Regal Entertainment Group) is an American movie theater chain that operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with 5,720 screens in 420 theaters as of December 31, 2024. Founded on August 10, 1989, it ...

announced their intent to build a new state-of-the-art 56,000 sq ft 12-screen theater known as ''Regal Moorestown Mall Stadium 12'', which will feature the new ''Regal Premium Experience'' (RPX). The theater took over the 7-screen

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at the mall, while a formerly adjacent skate park was used as an expansion to the new theater which more than doubled the size of the current theater. Additionally, the development marked the first RPX theater in the market, which features digital projectors,

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, 2D and

RealD 3D RealD 3D is a digital stereoscopic projection technology made and sold by RealD. It is currently the most widely used technology for watching 3D films in theaters. Worldwide, RealD 3D is installed in more than 26,500 auditoriums by approximatel ...

stadium seating Stadium seating or theater seating is a seating arrangement where most or all seats are placed higher than the seats immediately in front of them so that the occupants of further-back seats have less of their views blocked by those ahead of them. ...

with high-back rocking recliner seats, and Regal Express kiosks for automated ticket purchasing. Although opened with standard theater seats, all screens were renovated less than two years later to include full power reclining seats on all screens. The RPX theater features the same new seating with the addition of tactile sound technology from ButtKicker. In 2015, the mall's food court was redeveloped and upgraded to provide an enhanced environment that better matches the merchandising mix and upscale demographics. In recent years, the Moorestown Mall has seen an increase in the vacancy rate, due to declining mall traffic and competition from the larger Cherry Hill Mall located less than away. In 2019, the non-anchor occupancy rate at Moorestown Mall is 82.4%. On January 4, 2017, Macy's announced that its store would be closing as part of a plan to close 68 stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2017. On February 8, 2018, it was announced that

, and Sierra Trading Post would be opening in the former Macy's space. HomeSense opened in September 2018,

opening in Winter of 2018 and Sierra Trading Post opening in Winter/Spring 2019. On August 28, 2019, Lord & Taylor announced that it would also be closing in 2020. On February 4, 2020, Sears announced they would be closing as well on April 11, 2020 as part of a plan to close 31 stores nationwide which left Boscov's as the only traditional anchor left. In 2022, it was announced that PREIT, the mall’s owner, gained approval to build 375 apartments on the property with a 125-room hotel in the works. The number of apartments could reach 1,065 units. Turn 7 Liquidators opened in the former Lord & Taylor space in 2022. The store closed in 2024 and is expected to be replaced by Parky’s, an entertainment center. The center will feature amenities such as mini-golf, an arcade, and a go-kart track. Cooper University Health Care converted the former Sears store to an ambulatory care facility, the Cooper University Health Care - Moorestown Campus, which opened in November 2023.

Anchors

, opened ~1994 , Former Ports Of The World * Cooper University Health Care - Moorestown Campus , Former Sears * Regal Moorestown Mall & RPX Cinemas , Expanded into the former Black Diamond Skate Park Junior Anchors *

, opened 2018 * Sierra Trading Post *

, opened 2019 *

, opened 2020 Former Anchors & Junior Anchors *

Gimbel's Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987. Gimbel patriarch Adam Gimbel opened his first store in Vincennes, Indiana, Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842 ...

, opened 1963, closed 1986 *

, opened 1963, closed 1995 *

F. W. Woolworth Company The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, se ...

, opened 1963, closed ~1997 *

, opened 1971, closed 2020 *

, opened 1986, closed 1990 , Former Gimbel's * Ports of the World, opened 1990, closed mid-1990s , Former Stern's *

Hecht's Hecht's was an American department store chain founded in 1857 by Samuel Hecht, Jr. It was headquartered in Washington, D.C., and operated in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States. The family business was acqui ...

, opened 1995, closed 1996 , Former Wannamaker's *

, opened 1996, closed 1998, demolished 1998, re-opened 1999, closed 2006 *

, opened 2000, closed 2020 *

Macy's Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34 ...

, opened 2006, closed 2017 , Former Strawbridge's * Turn 7 Liquidators, Opened 2021, closed 2024 , Former Lord & Taylor

References

External links

Official website
{{Philadelphia Malls Buildings and structures in Burlington County, New Jersey Moorestown, New Jersey Shopping malls in New Jersey Tourist attractions in Burlington County, New Jersey Shopping malls established in 1963 Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust