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Mall at The Source
USINFO | 2013-10-31 09:09
| The Mall at the Source | |
| Location | Westbury, New York, USA |
| Opening date | September 5, 1997 |
| Developer | Simon Property Group,Fortunoff |
| Owner |
Lenders (Fortunoff space, currently vacant, is owned by Hudson's Bay Trading Company) |
| No. of stores and services | 44 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 1 |
| No. of floors | 2 |
The Mall at the Source (also known as The Source Mall or simply The Source) is a shopping mall located in Westbury, New York, USA, on Old Country Road and Merchants Concourse (Ellison Avenue), currently managed by Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and owned by lenders. Until August 2012, the mall was managed and co-owned by Simon Property Group. It had many stores including Old Navy and currently has an H&M. It also has several upscale restaurants such as The Cheesecake Factory and P. F. Chang's China Bistro. The mall was named for its former anchor store Fortunoff (which used the phrase "The Source" in advertising for the chain), which the mall was built around and which closed in June 2009.
The site of The Mall at the Source was originally Roosevelt Field airport, with Charles Lindbergh taking off on his epic trans-Atlantic flight near the site of the mall's parking garage. Roosevelt Raceway bought the property when it expanded the harness-racing track in the 1940s for additional parking. In the early 1960s, Ohrbach's constructed a department store on leased land at north-east corner of the raceway's property. Fortunoff built its store several years later in 1964, as they followed their customers east from the original Fortunoff location in Brooklyn. Alan Fortunoff bought the entire property north of the current boundary of Transverse Drive from Roosevelt Raceway in the early 1980s.
In the late 1980s, Alan Fortunoff planned to construct the Long Island Galleria shopping mall, one comparable to the size of the massive Roosevelt Field Mall a few miles away but with different stores. It was to be built by the Westfield Group and include Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. Community pressure over congestion concerns forced Fortunoff to scale back the size and scope of the mall. Roughly half of the property was sold to Price Club (now Costco), which developed their portion to include a Kmart (now Walmart). The mall was instead built bySimon Property Group, and they continued to manage and co-own the mall until August 2012.
The mall was also the first on Long Island to house clothing chains H&M, Old Navy, Nordstrom Rack, and Off 5th. It was also the first to house restaurants including The Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, and Rainforest Cafe (closed on 19 October 2000). The Mall at The Source is also adjacent to many other shopping complexes and restaurants.
On August 9, 2012, it was announced that the property was to go up for auction by the end of the month. As of that date, the mall was under 50% occupancy. With the opening of the nearby Gallery at Westbury Plaza planned in late 2012, the future of the mall is left in a state of uncertainty. On August 28th, an auction was held, but no one bought the mall. Lenders then took ownership of the mall, and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank was hired for management. Nordstrom Rack was slated to relocate.
The Mall at the Source has two floors and is shaped like an L. Because of this, the mall has separate "courts", named after the stores that anchor it (except for Center Court). Each anchor store has its own public entrance but not all have mall entrances; these stores tend to stay open later than the interior stores.
The Center Court is the main entrance and includes a carousel and train. Some of the stores in the Center Court include, P. F. Chang's China Bistro and Famous Footwear. The center court is also where the former Steve and Barry's was; in its place is a Fortunoff Backyard Store. Cold Stone Creamery is also in the Center Court, but unlike the other stores in the Center Court, Cold Stone Creamery does not have a mall entrance. Nordstrom Rack & Old Navy relocated to the neighboring Gallery at Westbury Plaza.
ADD：1504 Old Country Rd，Westbury, NY 11590
