The Shops at Riverside

The Shops at Riverside
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LocationHackensack, New Jersey, United States
Opening dateMarch 10, 1977; 47 years ago (March 10, 1977)
DeveloperFederated Department Stores[1]
ManagementSimon Property Group
OwnerSimon Property Group
No. of stores and services66
No. of anchor tenants4
Total retail floor area658,261 sq ft (61,154.4 m2)
No. of floors2
Public transit accessBus transport NJ Transit NJ Transit bus: 756, 762
Railway Train NJ Transit Access to NJ Transit's New Bridge Landing station (Pascack Valley Line).
Websitewww.simon.com/mall/the-shops-at-riverside

The Shops at Riverside is a two-level enclosed shopping mall, located in Hackensack, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, off Route 4, along the Hackensack River. The mall has a Gross leasable area (GLA) of 658,261 sq ft (61,154.4 m2).[2] The "lavishly appointed" mall opened on March 10, 1977 with 620,000 sq ft (58,000 m2) of retail space, which included a 237,000 sq ft (22,000 m2) Bloomingdale's (expanded from an original freestanding site opened in 1959) and a 107,000 sq ft (9,900 m2) Saks Fifth Avenue.[3] Until 2005, the shopping center was known as Riverside Square Mall.[4]

The Shops at Riverside is a very high-end mall which caters to the affluent suburban areas surrounding Hackensack in Bergen, Essex, and Passaic counties in New Jersey as well as Rockland County in New York State. The mall has 66 stores.[5] The anchor stores are Bloomingdale's, Barnes & Noble, Pottery Barn, and AMC Theatres.

  1. ^ "Riverside Square valued $25 million". The Record. November 30, 1977. pp. C16. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  2. ^ The Shops at Riverside, Simon Property Group. Accessed September 12, 2017.
  3. ^ "Hackensack Gets New Shopping Mall", The New York Times, March 6, 1977, p. 431. Accessed September 12, 2017.
  4. ^ Verdon, Joan. "A trip to Future Mall", The Record (Bergen County), February 8, 2005, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 28, 2005. Accessed September 12, 2017.
  5. ^ About Us, The Shops at Riverside. Accessed January 18, 2018.