Green Acres Mall

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Green Acres Mall

Location:	Valley Stream, NY
Opened:	1956
Owner:	Vornado Realty Trust
No. of Stores:	230+
No. of Anchors:	5
Size:	1.635 Mil. Square Feet (152,000 m²)^[1]
Floors	2
Open Roof:	1956 - 1968
Closed Roof	1968 - Present
Renovations:	1968: Roof Closed 1983: Second Floor Added 1983: Food Court Added
Website:	Green Acres Mall

Green Acres Mall is an indoor shopping mall located in Valley Stream, New York, off Sunrise Highway in Nassau County right off the border of New York City. The mall has a gross leasable area (GLA) of 1,635,000 square feet (152,000 m²).^[1] The mall is extremely popular in Nassau County and in the neighboring New York City borough of Queens. The mall is accessible by many MTA Long Island Bus routes as well as two New York City Transit routes that cross the border. The mall has many anchors such as Macy's, Macy's Men's and Furniture Gallery, J.C. Penney, Old Navy and Sears.

1 History
2 The Mall's "Re..." Era
3 Anchor stores
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

Green Acres Mall was built in 1956, replacing Curtiss Airfield as one of Long Island's first open air malls. In 1968, the mall was enclosed "to create an even more appealing shopping environment." At the time, there were three anchor stores. There were more renovations and an expansion in 1983 including adding a second level, food court and a fourth anchor store.^[2]

In the early days of the mall, WMCA `Good Guys' would broadcast from the mall as would WABC.^[3]

[edit] The Mall's "Re..." Era

The ceilings, floors, and food court have been going under multi-million dollar renovations to better compare to Long Island's largest mall, Roosevelt Field Mall. The food courts renovation was finished in early 2006 The malls other renovations will be finished in March, 2007. New to the area is a Best Buy, and a BJ's Wholesale Club. BJ's opened in early 2007. During the last few years the malls slogan has been Re... such as Reinvented, Redone, Remastered, etc.