| Green Acres Mall | |
| Location: | Valley Stream, New York, U.S. |
| Opened: | 1956 |
| Owner: | Vornado Realty Trust |
| No. of Stores: | 230+ |
| No. of Anchors: | 6 |
| Size: | 1.8 Mil. Square Feet [1] |
| Floors | 2 |
| Open Roof: | 1956 - 1968 |
| Closed Roof | 1968 - Present |
| Renovations: |
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| 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 1,800,000 square feet (170,000 m2).[1] The mall is the 26th largest in the United States. The mall is extremely popular in Nassau County and in the neighboring New York City borough of Queens. The mall is accessible by many Nassau Inter-County Express 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, Kohl's, and Sears.
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Green Acres Mall was built in 1956, replacing Curtiss Airfield as one of Long Island's first open air malls. It was partially built on the former site of the Columbia Aircraft Corporation. [2] 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.[3]
In the early days of the mall, WMCA `Good Guys' would broadcast from the mall as would WABC.[4]
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. The food court's renovation was finished in early 2006. The mall's other renovations were finished in March, 2007. New to the area is a Best Buy, Petsmart and a BJ's Wholesale Club which opened in early 2007. During the last few years the mall's slogan has been Re... such as Reinvented, Redone, Remastered, etc. It is on Long Island, right next to the border line separating Nassau County and Queens.