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Freehold Raceway Mall is a super-regional mall in Freehold, New Jersey, United States. The mall's anchor stores are J.C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Nordstrom and Sears. The mall is managed by The Macerich Company and has 1,594,888 square feet (148,170 m²) of gross leasable area,^[1][2] making it the third largest of all shopping malls in New Jersey). An outdoor lifestyle addition, begun in January 2007, will add 100,000 square feet (10,000 m²) of additional retail space. Image File history File links Gnome_globe_current_event. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Freehold, New Jersey is made up of two municipalities. ... Macerich (NYSE: MAC) is a self-managed Real Estate Investment Trust headquartered in Santa Monica, California. ... Gross leasable area (GLA) in the retail development industry is a term applied to shopping malls, lifestyle centers, outlet malls and other retail centers to indicate the amount of floor space available to be rented. ... Freehold, New Jersey is made up of two municipalities. ... “NJ” redirects here. ... In retail, an anchor store, or draw tenant, is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store in a major retail chain, such as Macys or JCPenney. ... This article is about the department store chain. ... Lord & Taylor, based in New York, New York, is the oldest department store chain in the United States. ... This article is about the R. H. Macy & Co. ... This is the page for the department store. ... Sears, Roebuck and Company is an American mid-range chain of international department stores, founded by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck in the late 19th century. ... Macerich (NYSE: MAC) is a self-managed Real Estate Investment Trust headquartered in Santa Monica, California. ... Gross leasable area (GLA) in the retail development industry is a term applied to shopping malls, lifestyle centers, outlet malls and other retail centers to indicate the amount of floor space available to be rented. ...

History

The Freehold Raceway Mall was built across the street from the Freehold Raceway on land used for stables. The stables are still there, connected by a small bridge over Route 9, but they can only be accessed via mall entrance road. Freehold Raceway is a half-mile racetrack in Freehold Borough, New Jersey. ...

The fully-enclosed mall originally opened in 1990 with two anchors: Sears and Lord & Taylor, with construction already underway on JCPenney (originally planned to be Hahne's, but the company went out of business), which later opened in 1991 and Nordstrom, which later opened in 1992. A fifth anchor, Macy's, was added in 1998 (on a pad originally planned for Stern's and later for Abraham & Straus). This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sterns was a department store serving the U.S. states of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. ... Abraham & Straus (or A&S), now defunct, was a major New York City department store, based in Brooklyn New York. ...

Shopping hours at the Freehold Raceway Mall are from ten in the morning to nine- thirty in the evening on Mondays until Saturdays. Sunday hours are from eleven in the morning to seven in the evening. Conventintly at the intersection of US Route 9 and Business Route 33. U.S. Route 9 is a major U.S. highway in the northeast United States. ... Route 33 Business is a state highway in New Jersey that is the original alignment of Route 33 before a freeway was built as a bypass of Freehold. ...

Anchors

• JCPenney (148,000 sq. ft)
• Lord & Taylor (100,000 sq. ft)
• Macy's (240,000 sq. ft)
• Nordstrom (163,000 sq. ft)
• Sears (144,891 sq. ft)

J. C. Penney Company, Inc. ... Lord & Taylor, based in New York, New York, is the oldest department store chain in the United States. ... This article is about the R. H. Macy & Co. ... This is the page for the department store. ... Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is the fourth largest retailer in the United States, behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, and Kroger. ...

Expansion

The Freehold Raceway Mall has began to undergo expansion (as of January 2007). The expansion will take up the space between JCPenney and Sears in the upper floor parking lot near Johnny Rockets. An interesting feature of the expansion is the fact that it will be completely open-air, making the Freehold Raceway Mall the only mall in New Jersey to have both an indoor and outdoor shopping area. J. C. Penney Company, Inc. ...

The addition will include a strip of outdoor stores along the J.C. Penney side of the mall, occupied by 13 to 15 stores, a 25,150 square foot (2,337 m²) Borders, two restaurants, a promenade and an area for community events. P.F. Chang's China Bistro and the Cheesecake Factory have also been announced. Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) is an international bookseller based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... P.F. Changs China Bistro, Inc. ... The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. ...

Workers have also begun interior renovations. When finished, the mall will have new tile, lights, a paint job and new seating areas, among other amenities. ^[3]

Two new parking lots will be built on site to replace those that will be lost. Construction on the expansion started in January 2007 with the closing of the parking lots in front of the mall's two upper level main entrances (as well as the entrances), between Sears and JCPenney. Additionally, signs of an interior renovation were seen by January, 2007, with samples of new flooring installed in various places in the mall. The expansion will open for the general public on November 9, 2007 at 10:00 AM (Article)

References

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External links

• Freehold Raceway Mall
• International Council of Shopping Centers: Freehold Raceway Mall