Queens Place Mall

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Queens Place Mall is the smaller, round counterpart of the Queens Center urban shopping mall in Elmhurst, New York, and is located just west of it on Queens Boulevard. Queens Place originally contained a Macy's until it moved to Queens Center. Today its flagship stores are Best Buy and Target (which comprises the top two floors), and it contains many smaller stores such as Red Lobster, Outback Steakhouse, Skechers, DSW Shoes, Cold Stone Creamery, Sprint Nextel, Macy's Furniture Store, and Starbucks.

The mall originally was planned as a traditional rectangular construction designed to replace several blocks of residences. However, the owner of the corner property staunchly refused to sell what had been her childhood home, and as a result the shopping center was reconfigured as a circle overshadowing the tiny house, where the woman continued to live until her death.

The mall is off the Grand Avenue–Newtown subway station of the G, R, and V trains on the IND Queens Boulevard Line.