Rockaway Townsquare Mall

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Rockaway Townsquare Mall

Location	Rockaway Township, New Jersey, USA
Opening date	1978
Management	Simon Property Group
Owner	Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services	180+
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	1,250,000 ft²
Parking	Lighted Lot
No. of floors	2
Website	Rockaway Townsquare Mall

The Rockaway Townsquare Mall (commonly called Rockaway Mall) is located at Interstate 80 and Mount Hope Avenue in Rockaway Township, New Jersey. The mall is anchored by four department stores (JCPenney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's and Sears) and more than 180 specialty stores such as Aeropostale, Abercrombie & Fitch, Toys "R" Us, Sharper Image, GAP, UNIQLO, and a food court located near Sears. The mall is currently owned by the Simon Property Group and has a gross leasable area of 1,250,000 ft²^[1], placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey. The mall is owned by the Simon Property Group.

1 Anchors
2 Mall History
3 Expansion
4 Transportation
- 4.1 Rail Proposals
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Anchors

JCPenney (181,000 sq. ft.)
Lord & Taylor (150,000 sq. ft.)
Macy's (260,000 sq. ft.)
Sears (191,000 sq. ft.)

[edit] Mall History

The mall first opened in 1978. Notable stores that have since closed include: Hahne's which was in the location currently occupied by Lord & Taylor, Kids "R" Us which is now occupied by Office Depot, K•B Toys, AMC Theaters had screens 1-6 in the location currently occupied by FYE and screens 7-12 in the location currently occupied by Best Buy. An elevator was added to center court in the 1990s.

[edit] Expansion

The mall has undergone several expansions since it opened. The most recent of these was the new AMC movie theatere. These include a strip mall in the southeast corner of the property currently anchored by Best Buy, ACME, Eckerd, and Office Depot. A Hilton Garden Inn was opened next to an office building that is currently occupied by BASF. A row of three stores (Michaels, Linens-N-Things, and Borders) was opened next to that. The west end of the property, called Rockaway Plaza, is now occupied by Target, Dick's Sporting Goods, Pier 1 Imports, PetSmart and a new 16 screen AMC Theatres (not connected to the original 12 screens). The Shops at Rockaway Mall, a strip mall owned by Transmark Company, also opened in the corner near Route 80 and features citibank, Dunkin' Donuts, Fatburger, Cold Stone Creamery, Quizno's, and Supercuts.^[2]

[edit] Transportation

The mall is served by several bus routes:

Route	Western Endpoint	Eastern Endpoint	Operator
5 Operates Monday and Wednesday only	Hackettstown	Terminal	PABCO Transit
7 Operates Tuesday and Friday only	Milton	Randolph	PABCO
10	Terminal	Morristown	PABCO (NJ Transit)
46 (off-peak hours only)	Terminal	Port Authority Bus Terminal	Lakeland Bus Lines
80B	Budd Lake	PABT	Lakeland
80H	Howard Boulevard	PABT/Midtown Manhattan/Wall Street	Lakeland
80N	Newton	PABT	Lakeland
80S	Sparta	PABT	Lakeland
Operates one trip inbound and one trip outbound only	Long Valley, Netcong	Midtown	Villani Bus

Taxis are plentiful and charge $5 to $8 for a one-way ride to the New Jersey Transit Dover Rail Station on the Morristown Line and the Montclair-Boonton Line.

[edit] Rail Proposals

The mall has been included in many rail proposals to relieve traffic on Interstate 80. However, traffic has become increasingly worse and backups are common as far as Netcong. If a rail station had been built when the mall was constructed, it probably would have sat unused until 1982 when the Comet II passenger cars arrived as any electrification would have been to the current that was going to be used on the Morris & Essex Lines and wasn't placed in service along with the Arrow III MUs until 1984.

The Comet I cars were equipped with low-doors and since most trains might have been sent via the Morristown Line providing for management concerns about diesel noise and exhaust from the U34CH locomotives near the mall.