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| Location | Wayne, New Jersey, United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°53′20″N 74°15′36″W / 40.889°N 74.260°W |
| Address | 1400 Willowbrook Mall |
| Opening date | September 24, 1969 |
| Developer | The Rouse Company[1] |
| Management | Brookfield Properties |
| Owner | Brookfield Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 167[2] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,520,000 sq ft (141,000 m2)[2] |
| No. of floors | 1 with partial upper level (2 in Dave & Buster's, and JCPenney, 3 in Bloomingdale's and Macy's) |
| Parking | Parking lot with 8,000 spaces[2] |
| Public transit access |   NJ Transit Bus: 11, 28 (weekends only), 191, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 704, 705, 712, 748, 871, 874 |
| Website | willowbrook-mall.com |
Willowbrook Mall is a one-level shopping center with a partial second floor located in Wayne, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is near the intersection of New Jersey Route 23, U.S. Route 46, and Interstate 80 in the New York metropolitan area and is situated close to both Essex and Morris counties near the Passaic River. The mall features more than 165 retail establishments and a leasable area of 1,518,006 square feet (141,027.4 m2). It is the fifth-largest shopping mall in New Jersey.[citation needed] The mall opened in 1969 and was expanded or renovated in 1970, 1988, 2006, and 2015.
As of July 2024, the mall's four anchor spaces are occupied by Macy's, Bloomingdale's, BJ's Wholesale Club, and JCPenney. Macy's is the longest tenured anchor, having opened with Willowbrook as a Bamberger's in 1969. Bloomingdale's opened in 2002 in a former Stern's location. BJ's opened its Willowbrook outpost in late 2022 in a portion of the former Sears anchor, which had been downscaled and reconfigured before it was closed. JCPenney, which had been an anchor at neighboring Wayne Towne Center since that mall's opening, moved to Willowbrook in the spring of 2024 to take over a space previously occupied by Ohrbach's, Steinbach, and Lord & Taylor.
The mall also features a 14-screen Cinemark movie theater, which is located in the rear parking lot adjacent to BJ's auto center.
With blue laws in effect in neighboring Bergen County and even stricter restrictions in effect in Paramus, Willowbrook Mall has benefited from the spillover of shoppers on Sunday.[3] The mall and its surrounding access roads and parking areas are prone to flooding in rainstorms. The Passaic River flows near the mall and one of its tributaries, and the Pompton River, runs behind it.[4]
- ^ "Mall merchant head predicts great future". The News. Paterson, New Jersey. September 25, 1969. p. 49. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Willowbrook Mall (NJ)". Brookfield Properties.
- ^ Strum, Charles. "Paramus Journal; On Sundays, Bergen Shoppers Rest", The New York Times, December 7, 1992. Accessed August 31, 2018.
- ^ Service, US Department of Commerce, NOAA, National Weather. "National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service". water.weather.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
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