Hampshire Mall
The interior of Hampshire Mall
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| Location | Hadley, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°21′23″N 72°32′52″W / 42.35639°N 72.54778°WCoordinates: 42°21′23″N 72°32′52″W / 42.35639°N 72.54778°W |
| Address | 367 Russell Street, Hadley, MA 01035 |
| Opening date | 1978 |
| Owner | The Pyramid Companies |
| No. of stores and services | approximately 55 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 435,000 square feet (40,413 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
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Mall website Pyramid's page on this mall |
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Hampshire Mall is a primarily one-story shopping mall with a small second floor in Hadley, Massachusetts, United States, with approximately 55 stores owned by The Pyramid Companies. Current anchor stores include Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, and Target. The mall is home to Interskate 91 North, a roller skating rink on the second floor. Attached to the skating rink is LaserBlast: Ancient Adventure (a Lasertag facility that was formerly home to LaserStorm).
When the mall opened in 1978 it was anchored by JCPenney, Steiger's and Kmart.
The Steiger's store was demolished in 1994 for Media Play. In 2003 the Kmart space was rebuilt and extended to house a Target store. Originally the mall contained a six screen movie theater that existed from 1978-1999. This was then expanded to a 12-screen Cinemark movie theater in 2000.
A 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m2). Dick's Sporting Goods store opened in early 2005, replacing a former Eastern Mountain Sports. Best Buy and Steve & Barry's replaced Media Play in early 2005. Steve & Barry's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008 and subsequently closed their Hampshire Mall store in August 2008.
Wal-Mart developers beginning in 2005 wished to build a new 212,000-square-foot (19,700 m2) Supercenter southeast of Hampshire Mall. However, there have been various hindrances as a consequence of a bylaw designed to keep out large stores by restricting new stores to 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2). After two years of negotiations, on November 20, 2007, a subdivision plan that exempted the planned Wal-Mart Supercenter from the current bylaw restrictions was approved. Developers have eight-years to get a site plan approved before the exemption expires. This would almost certainly mean the current store, attached to the east end of Mountain Farms Mall, would close.
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