Cherry Hill Mall

Cherry Hill Mall
	Cherry Hill Mall signage, 2011
Location	Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates	39°56′28″N 75°01′30″W / 39.941°N 75.025°W
Opening date	October 11, 1961
Developer	The Rouse Company
Management	PREIT
Owner	PREIT
No. of stores and services	160
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	1,306,000 square feet (121,300 m2)
No. of floors	2 (1 in Macy’s wing, 3 in Macy's)
Parking	Parking lot, parking garage, valet parking
Public transit access	NJ Transit Bus: 404, 405, 413, 418, 450, 455; FlixBus (to New York City)
Website	www.cherryhillmall.com

The Cherry Hill Mall is an indoor shopping center located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, within the unincorporated namesake neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) of Cherry Hill Mall, New Jersey.

The mall opened on October 11, 1961, as the Cherry Hill Shopping Center, designed by architect Victor Gruen and built and managed by The Rouse Company. It was the first indoor, climate-controlled shopping center east of the Mississippi River in the United States. Rouse sold its shopping center portfolio to PREIT in 2003. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,248,347 square feet (115,975.2 m²),^[1] placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey. It is currently anchored by JCPenney, Macy's, and Nordstrom.

The farm that was near the site of the Cherry Hill Mall is widely held to be the source of the 1962 renaming of what had been called Delaware Township to its current name of Cherry Hill Township. The town was named Cherry Hill in a voter referendum due to the development of a new U.S. Postal Service office for the region, and historical ties to Cherry Hill Farm, which once occupied land opposite the current mall site, and various locations named for the farm, including the Cherry Hill Estates housing development and the Cherry Hill Inn.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Cherry Hill Mall Fact Sheet" (PDF). PREIT. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 9, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
^ "Cherry Hill Mall celebrates 50 years", Cherry Hill News, October 11, 2011. Accessed March 15, 2022. "'As sentiment for a post office grew along with the population, township officials realized that it could not have a post office with Delaware Township in the name because a Delaware Township post office already existed in North Jersey,' Mangiafico and Mathis wrote. Residents suggested 'Moriville' as the new name for the township in honor of Mori, but Abraham Browning’s farm near the Cherry Hill Inn and Cherry Hill Estates had increasing appeal in the neighborhood. His farm, Mangiafico said, had Cherry trees, which inspired the name of the neighborhood.... The 15-acre mall, located on the former George Jaus farm, had opened just weeks before the official name change, already bearing the new name."

[preit-1] "Cherry Hill Mall Fact Sheet" (PDF). PREIT. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 9, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2010.

[2] "Cherry Hill Mall celebrates 50 years", Cherry Hill News, October 11, 2011. Accessed March 15, 2022. "'As sentiment for a post office grew along with the population, township officials realized that it could not have a post office with Delaware Township in the name because a Delaware Township post office already existed in North Jersey,' Mangiafico and Mathis wrote. Residents suggested 'Moriville' as the new name for the township in honor of Mori, but Abraham Browning’s farm near the Cherry Hill Inn and Cherry Hill Estates had increasing appeal in the neighborhood. His farm, Mangiafico said, had Cherry trees, which inspired the name of the neighborhood.... The 15-acre mall, located on the former George Jaus farm, had opened just weeks before the official name change, already bearing the new name."

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