South Shore Plaza
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| Address | 250 Granite Street Braintree, Massachusetts 02184-2807 |
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| Opening date | 1961 |
| Management | Simon Property Group |
| Owner | Simon Property Group |
| No. of stores and services | 220 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 2,165,000 sq ft (201,100 m2) |
| No. of floors | 3 (1 basement level) |
| Parking | 7388 |
| Website | www.simon.com |
South Shore Plaza is an upscale shopping mall owned by the Simon Property Group. It is located in Braintree, Massachusetts. With 2,165,000 sq ft (201,100 m2) of leasable area and 220 retailers, it is the largest mall in New England in terms of square footage and is the 15th largest mall in the United States. South Shore Plaza is home to six different department store anchors—Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Sears, Target, and Designer Shoe Warehouse.
In 2008 the mall was used to film sequences of the movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
South Shore Plaza originally opened in 1961 as an open-air plaza with a 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m2) Filene's and thirty smaller stores. A 300,316 sq ft (27,900 m2) Jordan Marsh opened in 1967. The center was enclosed in 1976 and saw additional anchors, such as Lord & Taylor in 1979 and Sears in 1980, when the mall reached 100 stores. In 1995 and 1996, a second level was added, including the "Boardwalk Cafes" food court, and the Filene's store was expanded to include a home store. This nearly doubled the mall's size, giving it a bright and airy feel, largely because of abundant skylighting and spacious corridors. Also in 1996, the Jordan Marsh store was renamed Macy's. In 1998, Simon Property Group acquired the mall owner, Corporate Property Investors, and assumed management.
In 2005, May Department Stores, at the time the parent of Lord & Taylor and Filene's, was acquired by Federated Department Stores, the owner of Macy's. As a result, the Filene's store was briefly closed in March 2006, before using the space to relocate its Macy's store that May. The remainder of the Filene's stores were converted Macy's later that year. Federated sold the Lord & Taylor chain later that year and sold the vacant Jordan Marsh/Macy's space to Simon Property Group. Filene's Basement, one of the mall's former anchors, filed for bankruptcy protection on May 4, 2009. New York's Crown Acquisitions made a bid to buy Filene's Basement including their famous Downtown Crossing location which closed for reconstruction in 2007. The South Shore Plaza store in Braintree closed in December 2011.
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