Broadway Mall

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Broadway Mall

Location	Hicksville, NY
Management	Vornado Realty Trust
Owner	Vornado Realty Trust
No. of stores and services	85+
No. of anchor tenants	4
No. of floors	2
Website	http://www.broadwaymall.com

Broadway Mall is a large shopping mall located in Hicksville, New York, United States. Originally built in the 1950s as an open-air shopping center called Mid-Island Plaza, Broadway Mall is currently a regional enclosed shopping center comprising more than 85 stores, as well as a food court and movie theater. Anchor stores at the mall include IKEA, Macy*s and Target; other major stores include H&M, Old Navy, and Steve & Barry's.

[edit] History

The Mall was originally built as an open air shopping center as Mid Island Plaza in the late 1950s, as the population of Nassau County, Long Island surged and the area became a major suburban population center. Gertz, a department store based then in downtown Jamaica Queens, and a unit of the then Allied Stores Corporation planned the center and built a 5 level store to anchor the facility. The Gertz store was reported to be the tallest suburban department store ever built.^{[citation needed]} In the early 1980s, Gertz closed their downtown Jamaica store, and this location became its new flagship store, and the Gertz corporate staff was relocated to the 5th floor of the Broadway Mall location. A few years later Allied merged its Gertz division into its Paramus, New Jersey based Stern's division. All former Gertz locations were re-branded as Stern's, and a regional corporate staff remained at the Broadway Mall store.