The Westchester

This article is about the mall in White Plains, NY. For the shopping center in Mohegan Lake, NY, formerly known as the Westchester Mall, see Cortlandt Town Center.

The Westchester

The Westchester Vehicle Entrance before the 2016 renovation
Coordinates	41°01′52″N 73°45′29″W / 41.031°N 73.758°W / 41.031; -73.758Coordinates: 41°01′52″N 73°45′29″W / 41.031°N 73.758°W / 41.031; -73.758
Address	125 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601-4522 USA
Opening date	1995
Management	Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services	150
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	890,000 sq. ft.
No. of floors	4 (retail & food)
Parking	Indoor
Public transit access	White Plains (Metro-North station)
Website	http://www.simon.com/mall/the-westchester

The Westchester is a 890,000-square-foot (83,000 m²), shopping mall in downtown White Plains, New York.^[1] It is operated by Simon Property Group, which owns 40% of the mall, and is home to some of today's most fashionable and well-known retailers, many with their only location in affluent Westchester County, New York. It is anchored by Neiman Marcus and New York state's first Nordstrom, the fourth in the New York City metropolitan area to open after locations in Short Hills, Menlo Park, and Paramus, New Jersey.

Opened in 1995,^[2] The Westchester was built on the site of one of the first suburban branch department stores in the United States, a B. Altman & Co. store which opened in 1930, as well as the terminal for the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway White Plains branch. B. Altman's was located where Nordstrom is now situated. The mall was built adjacent to the (once) freestanding location of Neiman Marcus, which originally opened in 1972 as the only out-of-town location of its sister chain, New York-based Bergdorf Goodman. An interesting feature of the mall is that an old fountain, once located in the original Altman store in New York, is featured in one of the lobbies leading from the parking garage into the mall.

Some of its tenants include The Apple Store, Michael Kors, Theory, Burberry, a large Coach store (one of only 25 to carry the full Coach collection), J. Crew, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., Brooks Brothers, Cole Haan, Abercrombie & Fitch, Tourneau and the largest non-flagship Hollister Co. store in the world. In addition, The Westchester is located within proximity to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, The Source at White Plains, The White Plains Pavilion, City Center at White Plains, and the Galleria at White Plains.^[3]

Stores that have opened since Fall 2008 include: Kate Spade, David Yurman, Tory Burch, American Eagle Outfitters and Salvatore Ferragamo.

Stores to have recently opened include: Tesla , lululemon athletica, Aritzia, Blue Nile, Hobbs London, Lush, Urban Outfitters and a large Under Armour

Starting in February 2016, the mall went under that largest renovation since its opening in 1995. Which included a new façade, tiling and carpeting, a new food court, valet parking and more. Most of these amenities were completed by the holiday of 2015 season. The new food court opened on April 1, 2017.^[4]

The mall's new food court is going to be called "Savor Westchester" and will feature new eateries that are mainly Manhattan-Based chains. Juice Generation, Mighty Quinn's BBQ, Whitmans New York (their first location outside of Manhattan), Bluestone Lane Coffee Company, Hai Street Kitchen (scheduled to open summer of 2017), and more that will be announced closer to the opening of the food court. The fourth floor used to have a typical food court and a large F.A.O. Schwarz that closed in the early 2000s.

Anchors

• Neiman Marcus
• Nordstrom
• Crate&Barrel

Public transportation

• iBus Stamford Express
• iBus White Plains Express
• iBus Greenwich-Stamford Express

References

External links

• The Westchester
• Westchester Mall Review