The Mall at Greece Ridge

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The Mall at Greece Ridge is a large shopping mall in Greece, New York, an immediate suburb of Rochester. As of January 6, 2006, it contains 141 stores and restaurants in the main complex, a Circuit City that is attached but has its own entrance, and a free-standing Target which shares the parking lot. [1]

The mall is near the center of a long line of plazas, restaurants and car dealerships which continues for several miles in each direction on West Ridge Road (New York State Route 104).

The mall is located at the corner of West Ridge and Long Pond Roads, the historic western terminus of New York State Route 47.

[edit] History

The mall opened in 1959 as 2 shopping malls: Greece Towne Mall and Long Ridge Mall. Long Ridge Mall had four anchors: Sears, JC Penney, McCurdy's (later Kaufmann's), and B. Forman (later Kaufmann's Home Store). The Greece Towne Mall had a Sibley's (later Kaufmann's) and a Gold Circle (later Hills, then Caldor, then Hoyts Cinemas, now Regal Theaters). Both malls competed against each other until 1994 when the malls merged to form The Mall at Greece Ridge Center, forming the second-largest mall in the eastern United States.

At the time of the merger, JC Penney moved to a marquee space in the new wing that connected the two malls, across from the food court. The former Penney's was converted into a Burlington Coat Factory (top floor) and a Lechmere's (now closed). Since each mall had a Kaufmann's store (one in the former Sibley's and one in the former McCurdy's), the former Sibley's was converted into a Bon-Ton. Thus, of the anchor stores, only Sears has retained both its location and name since 1959.

Other smaller anchors have been added since the merger, often taking over what used to be several storefronts. These stores are smaller than the big department stores that normally serve as anchors, and are usually found in strip malls rather than indoor shopping malls. Many of them have separate outdoor entrances in addition to their indoor mall entrances. Michaels, Marshalls, and Bed Bath and Beyond opened in existing space in the Greece Towne wing, with Circuit City opening in new space attached to the mall but accessible only from outside. In the Long Ridge wing, in addition to Lechmere and Burlington taking over the former Penney's space, existing space has been converted to Dick's Sporting Goods, Barnes and Noble, and Old Navy.

In 2005, Burlington Coat Factory relocated downstairs in the former Lechmere space, leaving the upper level vacant. In 2006, the Kaufmann's name was retired and all existing stores were converted to Macy's. The furniture department on the upper level of the Macy's Home Store became storage and offices for the store. The mall's name was also changed in September 2006 to "The Mall at Greece Ridge" (dropping "Center").

The mall is owned and operated by Wilmorite Properties, Inc, a subsidiary of The Macerich Company.

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