Bay Plaza Shopping Center

Bay Plaza Shopping Center

Location	The Bronx, New York
Opening date	1988
Owner	Prestige Properties
No. of stores and services	100+
No. of anchor tenants	6
Total retail floor area	2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2)
No. of floors	3 (Mall at Bay Plaza), 1 (other sections)

40°52′4″N 73°49′31″W / 40.86778°N 73.82528°W / 40.86778; -73.82528 Bay Plaza Shopping Center is a shopping center on the south side of Co-op City in the Bronx, New York City. In addition to various department stores and shops, such as Macy's, JCPenney, Staples, and Old Navy, it has a multiplex movie theater, several restaurants, a fitness club, and some office space. Constructed from 1987 to 1988 by Prestige Properties, the shopping center is located between Bartow and Baychester Avenues, just outside Sections 4 and 5 of Co-op City, on an open lot that was the site of the Freedomland U.S.A. amusement park between 1960 and 1964. The Bay Plaza Shopping Center is the largest shopping center in New York City. Since opening over 25 years ago, it has become extremely successful, the center claims to hold some of the highest performing stores on a per-square-foot basis for many national retailers.^[1]