 Bergen Town Center as seen in 2022 | |
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| Location | 1 Bergen Town Center Paramus, New Jersey |
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| Opening date | November 14, 1957 (outdoor plaza) September 16, 1973 (enclosed mall) August 25, 2009 (Major Renovation/Expansion) |
| Developer | Allied Stores |
| Owner | Urban Edge Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 100 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| Total retail floor area | 917,129 sq ft (85,204.1 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1-2 (4 in Old Sterns/Macy's Bldg, Now occupied by Home Goods/Bloomingdale's-The Outlet Store(1), Century 21(2,3), and Lincoln Tech (4) |
| Parking | 8,600 spaces |
| Public transit access |   NJ Transit bus: 168, 171, 751, 752, 753, 755, 756 |
| Website | bergentowncenter |
Bergen Town Center (formerly known as The Outlets at Bergen Town Center) is a shopping center located in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. The center consists of both an indoor mall and exterior outlying stores and occupies over 105 acres split between the municipalities of Paramus and Maywood.
The center, which was built as the Bergen Mall, opened in 1957 as one of several regional large-scale outdoor shopping centers rolled out nationwide, and was the largest of its kind at the time of its opening.[1] It is the second-oldest mall in New Jersey.[2] The mall offers a gross leasable area (GLA) of 917,129 sq ft (85,204.1 m2).[3] The mall is located at the junction of Route 4 and Forest Avenue, and includes a separate shopping strip, south of Route 4 connected to the rest of the property via a pedestrian bridge. The mall has over the years included community spaces, including a chapel, theater for live dramas, post office, auditorium, ice rink,[4] bowling alley, a children's amusement ride area, and the Bergen Museum of Art & Science. The Bergen Mall was designed by John Graham of New York City. The mall is subject to Bergen County's blue laws, which requires the mall to be closed on Sundays, except for some restaurants and other non-clothing establishments.[5]
- ^ "The Super Centers". Time. January 24, 1955. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
The new centers, scheduled for opening by 1957, are designed to serve regions (i.e., customers within 40 minutes' driving time) rather than smaller suburban areas. The first to go into operation will be the $30 million Bergen Mall at Paramus, N.J., expected to be the biggest U.S. shopping center. Puckett estimates that there are 1,588,000 customers within the 40-minute radius.
- ^ lBergen Mall's makeover approved, The Record (Bergen County), December 1, 2006
- ^ International Council of Shopping Centers: Bergen Mall, accessed November 6, 2006 Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ice Skating Is Nice Skating Indoors or Out", The New York Times, January 21, 1977. p. 63
- ^ Strum, Charles (November 3, 1993). "Sunday-Closing Law Retained in New Jersey County". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
Efforts to repeal the 34-year-old ban on Sunday retailing in Bergen County, one of the country's richest shopping areas, were turned back easily today. ... Even if the county laws had been repealed, stores in Paramus would have remained closed because the community enforces its own ordinances against Sunday shopping and has vowed not to lift them