| Location | Milford, Connecticut, U.S. |
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| Opening date | 1960 |
| Owner | The Westfield Group |
| No. of stores and services | 215 [1] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,334,000 square feet (116,332 m²)[2] |
| No. of floors | 3 |
| Website | westfield.com/connecticutpost |
Westfield Connecticut Post, originally the Connecticut Post Shopping Center and later the Connecticut Post Mall, is a three-story shopping mall, located on the Boston Post Road (Route 1) in Milford, Connecticut. It is currently the largest mall in the state of Connecticut[2] and is owned and operated by The Westfield Group. The mall currently houses over 215 retail stores. The 5 anchor stores are Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Target. The mall also features a 16 screen movie theater, including an IMAX theater.
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The original, open-air mall was built by Sol Atlas[3] and opened in 1960,[4] anchored by a Caldor discount department store and a Stop & Shop supermarket at opposite ends.[5] In 1962, the sixth branch of the Alexander's department store chain opened.[6]
In 1981, the mall was made enclosed. The mall underwent a renovation in the late 1980s which added the Skyview Cafe food court, and lost anchor Alexander's.
The Mall strongly opposed the proposed rival New Haven Galleria mall at Long Wharf, filing over 15 lawsuits.[7][8]
A $118 million[9] 480,000-square-foot (45,000 m2)[10] expansion project took place in 2005-2006, adding:
The Rave Motion Pictures theater is a 14 screen theatre, including a 30-foot by 60-foot curved screen IMAX auditorium, with enhanced audio. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was the first movie shown after the conversion was completed in November, 2010. [11] It is one of only four IMAX format screens in the state of Connecticut. [12]
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