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Shopping mall in Trumbull, Connecticut
Trumbull Mall
LocationTrumbull, Connecticut
Coordinates41°13′45″N 73°13′34″W / 41.22917°N 73.22611°W / 41.22917; -73.22611
Address5065 Main Street, Trumbull, CT 06611
Opening date1964
DeveloperFrouge Corporation
ManagementNamdar Realty Group
OwnerNamdar Realty Group
No. of stores and services169
Total retail floor area1,130,690 square feet (105,045 m)
No. of floors2 (3 in Macy's)
Parking4,436 spaces
Websitetrumbullmall.com

Trumbull Mall (formerly known as Westfield Trumbull) is a shopping mall located in Trumbull, Connecticut. It was the first enclosed shopping mall in Connecticut upon opening in 1964. The mall was developed by the Frogue Corporation, and was the first U.S. acquisition by Australian mall operator Westfield Group in 1977. Ownership and management were transferred to the Westfield Corporation in 2014, and to Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield in 2018. It has 1,130,690 square feet (105,045 m) of gross leasable area. It is owned by Namdar Realty Group.

History

The Westfield Trumbull was originally known as the Trumbull Shopping Park and was built in 1964 by the Frouge Corporation, with a branch of the E. J. Korvette discount department store and D.M. Read as its two original anchor stores, as well as a Waldbaum's and Woolworth's. In 1977, it was purchased by The Westfield Group and became the first US mall purchased by the Australian mall operator. The first f.y.e. store opened at the mall in 1993.

Read's was converted into Jordan Marsh, another nameplate owned by parent company Allied Stores, in 1987. The merger of Allied and Federated Department Stores resulted in Jordan Marsh being converted into Abraham & Straus in April 1992, and later Abraham & Straus being converted into Macy's in April 1995. Trumbull Shopping Park was renamed Westfield Shoppingtown Trumbull in 1998.

The mall was renamed Westfield Trumbull with the company-wide discontinuation of the "Westfield Shoppingtown" naming convention in May 2005, citing that "the name served its purpose" and that "Shoppingtown is part of heritage, but Westfield is the brand." With the acquisition of The May Company by Federated in July 2005, it was announced that the Federated-owned Macy's would vacate its previous location in the former Read's building and reopen in the outgoing May-owned Filene's building; the conversion was completed in 2006. The vacant Read's anchor spot was demolished in 2007; in its place, a two-floor Target store was constructed and opened in October 2008.

On August 27, 2020, Lord & Taylor announced they would shutter their brick-and-mortar fleet after modernizing into a digital collective department store. Early plans envision the 99,534-square-foot (9,247-square-meter) store reconstructed into a modern space known as York Factory, a co-working sub-brand offering soft amenities such as a program delivering lunch straight to your office, bike rentals, a physical and mental wellness studio, salon services, and weekly events.

On September 7, 2020, an apartment complex named "The Residences at Main" was proposed, and would be built near the mall. On October 3, 2020, the project moved forward, but there was limited to no news after that. However, on October 15, 2021, construction would officially begin on the new project.

On February 14, 2022, the parking garage located near the entrance of Target, JCPenney, and one of the mall entrances located next to SeaQuest, collapsed, causing it to be closed indefinitely. On October 23, 2022, construction to rebuild the parking garage began.

On January 3, 2023, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield sold this mall along with Westfield South Shore in Bay Shore, New York for a combined deal of $196 million to the Namdar Realty Group.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Trumbull". urw.com. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  2. "Connecticut to get a Big Korvette Store". The New York Times. November 18, 1961.
  3. Westfield Group (2010). Westfield 50th Anniversary book (PDF). Hardie Grant Magazines. p. 72. ISBN 9780980783513.
  4. Fitzpatrick, Eileen (July 5, 1997). "Trans World at 25". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 27. pp. 68, 75, 76.
  5. ^ "Mall Hall of Fame". mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com. March 2008. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  6. Trumbull Historical Society (2014). Revisiting Trumbull. Arcadia Publishing. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4671-2240-5.
  7. Albright, Mark (June 1, 2015). "If you didn't call them 'shoppingtowns,' don't". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on December 21, 2005. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  8. Marks, Paul (July 29, 2005). "Filene's Will Soon Be Macy's". Hartford Courant. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  9. "Lord + Taylor to close all stores, including four in CT". August 28, 2020.
  10. "York Factory releases extensive plans to fill 4 massive empty Connecticut spaces". August 5, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
  11. "'Micro villages' – Westfield Trumbull hints at future plan". September 7, 2020.
  12. "Trumbull mall apartment plan moves ahead". October 3, 2020.
  13. "Construction begins on apartments at Westfield". October 15, 2021.
  14. "Trumbull mall's parking deck closed, pending assessment, repairs". February 14, 2022.
  15. "Repair work starts on Trumbull mall parking garage". October 23, 2022.
  16. "Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield sells 2 retail centers for $196M". January 3, 2023. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
  17. Turmelle, Luther (January 7, 2023). "New Trumbull mall owners make a good first impression on town officials". CT Insider. Retrieved January 8, 2023.

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