Menlo Park Mall
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Menlo Park Mall is a two-level super regional shopping mall, located on U.S. Route 1 in Edison, New Jersey, USA. The mall's anchor stores are Macy's and Nordstrom. Other notable tenants include Abercrombie & Fitch, , Barnes & Noble Booksellers, The Cheesecake Factory, the Rainforest Cafe, a 12-screen AMC Theatres, and a variety of Specialty Foods at the Food Court. Its newest stores include Club Monaco, Dormia, Kenneth Cole, Lucky Brand Jeans, Swarovski, UNIQLO, Zara, Ecco Gelato, and Toll Brothers. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,232,000 ft²[1].
The mall is named after the Menlo Park area of Edison, where Thomas Edison had his famous laboratory. The site of the laboratory is about two miles from the mall. Most of the mall was closed from 1990-1991, when it underwent a significant renovation and expansion that converted it from a single-story structure into its current two-story form. During this renovation period, Macy's remained open as the southern anchor tenant and Nordstrom replaced the financially-troubled Alexander's as the northern anchor tenant.
While not featured, the mall's name was mentioned in Kevin Smith's films Mallrats and Chasing Amy, both of which take place in Central Jersey areas.
Menlo Park Mall is currently owned by the Simon Property Group.
An episode of Comedy Central's Upright Citizen's Brigade was filmed in the Menlo Park Mall.
