Cape Cod Mall

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Cape Cod Mall

Location	Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA
Opening date	1970
Management	Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services	115 (capacity)
No. of anchor tenants	5
Total retail floor area	821,000 sq. ft. (250,241 m²).[1]
No. of floors	1
Website	Official website
Footnotes
Information acquired from fact sheet^[1]

Cape Cod Mall a regional shopping mall located in Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States. Its anchor stores are Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Sears, Marshalls, Macy's and Macy's women's/accessories store.[2] In addition, the mall features a food court and a twelve screen, stadium style movie theater. Cape Cod Mall is managed by Simon Property Group. The mall currently has a gross leasable area of 821,000 sq. ft. (250,241 m²) following the completion of the late 1990s expansion, as well as the addition of a two-story Barnes and Noble Bookstore in 2000, and a minor expansion to the previous Filene's department store (from 80,000 to 100,000 square feet), which became Macy's women's store in April of 2007. [3] [4]

1 History
2 Acquisition by Simon
3 Tenants
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The Cape Cod Mall was proposed in the late 1960s as a super-regional retail center for Barnstable County, due in part to rapid population growth. Before the mall was built, a Storyland theme park resided in its location. In the summer of 1970, the mall was opened to the public, with an initial capacity of approximately 50 stores (30-40 were occupied at the time), and was anchored by Sears, Filene's and Woolworth's, all of which formerly had locations in downtown Hyannis on Main Street. Today, the only remaining original tenants are Sears, CVS and the mall barbershop.

Behind the mall were two movie theaters, with two screens each. In 1977, Filene's was expanded to 2 levels (notable for being the first location on Cape Cod with escalators). The following year, a new wing was added on the south side of the mall, with 25 additional stores and a fourth anchor, Jordan Marsh. The mall remained basically the same for the next two decades, with a small food court added and an interior renovation completed in the mid 1980s. In 1993, Woolworth's, which by that time was experiencing financial problems, announced their plans to close the mall store, and had vacated by early 1994. In 1996, Jordan Marsh was re-named Macy's after Federated Department Stores merged the chains.

[edit] Acquisition by Simon

The mall's largest renovation began in 1998, the same year that Simon acquired the mall.^[2] An additional wing was built, extending through and beyond the shuttered Woolworth space. This expansion brought 40 new stores, as well as anchor stores Best Buy, Marshalls (which formerly had a store behind the mall) and a 2 story Barnes and Noble (which formerly had a smaller store in the K-Mart plaza directly across the street). A larger food court, with over 10 vendors, seating for apx. 500 people, central cathedral skylight and a carousel, was also added at the time. Other projects included doubling the size of Sears (to nearly 140,000 square feet in total) and constructing a 12-screen, stadium seating cinema complex(the only one of its kind in Barnstable County)^[2]. The old cinemas behind the mall were demolished for parking space. In 2003, the May Department Store chain, which included Filene's, was acquired by Federated Department Stores, who owned Macy's. Consequently, in 2007, Federated converted the Filene's store into a Macy's women's/accessory store (in addition to their "main" store, the former Jordan Marsh). ^[3] As a result, Cape Cod Mall is one the few malls to incorporate a second Macy's store following the acquisition of May Department Stores by Federated, enabling Macy's to offer well over 200,000 square feet of floor space, on par with many of the larger Macy's stores nationwide. The other malls to incorporate a second Macy's (following the closure of its Filene's store) is Fox Run Mall in Newington, New Hampshire and Northshore Mall in Peabody, Massachusetts.