Pheasant Lane Mall

Pheasant Lane Mall
Sign for Pheasant Lane Mall on Daniel Webster Highway, November 2020
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LocationNashua, New Hampshire, United States
Coordinates42°42′06″N 71°26′15″W / 42.70167°N 71.43750°W / 42.70167; -71.43750
Address310 Daniel Webster Highway
Opening dateJuly 23, 1986; 38 years ago (July 23, 1986)[1]
ManagementSimon Property Group
OwnerSimon Property Group
No. of stores and services139[2]
No. of anchor tenants5 (4 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area979,427 square feet (90,992 m2)[3]
No. of floors2
Public transit accessLocal Transit NTS 6
Websitewww.simon.com/mall/pheasant-lane-mall
The state line runs through the parking lot, with JCPenney ending at the line (New Hampshire on the left, Mass. on the right). The truck in the background is parked in both states.

Pheasant Lane Mall, occupying 979,427 square feet (90,992 m2), is one of the largest shopping malls in the state of New Hampshire and the focal point of the commercial area in south Nashua.

As of 2024, the mall has about 139 stores and kiosks, including four anchor stores: Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Macy's, and Target with one vacant anchor last occupied by Sears, plus 15 restaurants. Since 2012 it has been owned and managed by Simon Property Group of Indianapolis.

Located just south of Exit 1 of the F.E. Everett Turnpike (U.S. Route 3) in Nashua and directly at northbound exit-only Exit 91 off US 3 in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, the property straddles the state line, although the entire mall is in New Hampshire.

Proximity to the border has long drawn shoppers from Massachusetts seeking to take advantage of New Hampshire's lack of a sales tax.

Approximately one third of the parking lot and water runoff area is located in Tyngsborough. Shoppers who park in front of the former Sears entrance closer to Buffalo Wild Wings walk across the state line in front of the building on the sidewalk to get to and from their cars. The JCPenney store was originally built with a square corner that reached slightly across the border into Massachusetts, but was then modified to an unusual pentagonal shape at the state line to keep it entirely within New Hampshire by a few inches. Without that modification, the entire mall would have been subject to Massachusetts sales taxes on non-clothing items, even though only a few inches of the structure was in Massachusetts.[4]

  1. ^ Donald Dillaby (July 24, 1986). "A good time was had by mall: Pheasant Lane opens amid pomp and shoppers". The Nashua Telegraph. pp. 1, 14.
  2. ^ "Pheasant Lane Mall Directory". Simon Property Group. Archived from the original on 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
  3. ^ "Property Information". Simon Property Group. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
  4. ^ Kirsten O. Lundberg (July 24, 1986). "New Hampshire Mall Counts on Massachusetts Shoppers". Boston Globe. p. 53.