South Hills Mall
Main Hallway
Mall facts and statistics
Location	Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Opening date	August 11, 1992
Developer	Under Reconstruction
Management	Dagar Group
Owner	Vornado Assc.,
No. of stores and services	21
No. of anchor tenants	2, Burlington Coat Factory & KMart
Total retail floor area	675,000 thousand sq. ft.
Parking	2,000 spaces
No. of floors	1
Website	http://www.southillsmall.com

South Hills Mall is a shopping mall in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, not far from Wappingers Falls. The 675,000-square foot (60,750 m²) plaza opened in 1974 and includes over 40 shops, a small food court, and an eight-screen second-run cinema. South Hills Mall is owned and operated by Vornado Realty Trust, which purchased the mall from the locally-based Dagar Group in October 2005[1]. Image File history File links 811876803_l. ... Poughkeepsie City of Poughkeepsie Town of Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie, Arkansas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... A shopping mall (or simply mall), shopping center, or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store. ... Poughkeepsie is a town located in Dutchess County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 42,777. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Wappingers Falls is a village located in Dutchess County, New York. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... Food court at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. ... Vornado Realty Trust NYSE: VNO is a New York based Real estate investment trust. ...

The mall is adjacent to its rival, the Poughkeepsie Galleria, and the two are linked by interior roads. The Galleria's existence has led to the slow decline of South Hills and, for several years in the 1990s, there were rumors of the Galleria taking over South Hills and exanding into that space. The Poughkeepsie Galleria is a shopping mall in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, not far from nearby Wappingers Falls, and is the biggest mall in New Yorks Hudson Valley region. ... A dead mall is a shopping mall with a high vacancy rate, low consumer traffic level, or is dated or deteriorating in some manner. ...

History

South Hills Mall was the first true indoor shopping mall in Poughkeepsie (though Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall, a strip mall which was later enclosed, predated it) and the second in Dutchess County after Dutchess Mall in Fishkill. At the outset, anchors were Sears, KMart, and Service Merchandise and an assortment of smaller stores common for the era. South Hills quickly became the dominant retail center in the Poughkeepsie area, leading to a realignment at Poughkeepsie Plaza and the closing of venerable downtown retailer Luckey Platt & Co. in 1981. A later expansion added Hess's and a food court. Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. ... Dutchess Mall was an indoor shopping center opened in 1974 in Fishkill, New York. ... Fishkill is a town located in Dutchess County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 20,258. ... Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is the fourth largest retailer in the United States, behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, and Kroger [1]. It was formed in 2005 with the purchase of Sears, Roebuck and Company of Hoffman Estates, Illinois by Kmart Holdings Corporation of Troy, Michigan. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Service Merchandise was a chain of large stores carrying fine jewelry, toys, sporting goods, and electronics that existed from 1934 to 2002. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

An Entrance To The Mall.

In the early 1980s, an initial proposal for a two-story mall adjacent to South Hills was submitted; after several years of protests, this proposal became Poughkeepsie Galleria and opened in 1987. Though the malls co-existed successfully for the first several years of the Galleria's existence, as the 1990s began South Hills began to suffer. The decline largely began in 1991 when Hess's closed their location and Sears moved to the Galleria; the Hess's space was replaced by Burlington Coat Factory while the Sears space was divided between Pharmhouse and a (freestanding) Price Chopper supermarket. Image File history File links 773525602_l. ... Image File history File links 773525602_l. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation (BCF) is a national department store retailer focusing on clothing and shoes, with over 300 stores in 42 states (as of 2004). ... Phar-Mor was a discount drug and department store, similar to Walgreens Michael Monus and David S. Shapira co-founded Phar-Mor, Inc. ... Price Chopper is a chain of supermarkets, headquartered in Rotterdam, New York. ...

Around this time, South Hills was sold to Sarakreek, a Dutch property holding firm which reimaged the mall into a "power center" in which "big-box" retailers would open locations inside the mall. Smaller stores were replaced by such stores as Media Play, Old Navy, Office Max, Discovery Zone, and Bob's Stores. This strategy lessened the decline for a short period, however in the long run the alienation of smaller stores only led to a further, greater decline to the point that all of the aforementioned stores either have all since closed their locations at the mall. It has been suggested that List of superstores be merged into this article or section. ... Media Play was a chain of retail stores founded in 1992 that sold movies on video, DVDs, music, video games, books, toys, and games in the United States. ... Old Navy is a brand of clothing and chain of stores owned by Gap Inc. ... OfficeMax (stock symbol: OMX), often erroneously spelt Office Max, is an office supplies retailer founded in 1987 and headquartered in Shaker Heights, Ohio. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The TJX Companies, Incorporated (NYSE: TJX) is a department store chain based in Framingham, Massachusetts in the United States. ...

Present

By the late 1990s, Sarakreek sold South Hills to the Dagar Group, a locally based retail ownership group that mostly owns strip malls. The decline of South Hills hastened after this change as many established smaller tenants left the mall. Filling those holes have been smaller, independent shops ranging from a pottery and craft store to a small lunch counter to a (now closed) gymnastics studio as well as some tenants more suited to strip malls (such as GameStop and Weight Watchers). The Service Merchandise location has been largely vacant, minus several months as an overstock book store, and now serves merely as a corridor from the mall to a parking lot. After Phar-Mor, parent of Pharmhouse, folded, the space has played host to two different furniture stores. The closings of both Media Play and OfficeMax in 2006 also have not been good news for the mall. One of the few remaining source of incomes for the mall is the Silver Cinemas. The Silver Cinemas (or Cheap Movies) is a great alternative to paying full price for a movie ticket. Prices at the "cheap movies" are usually only $2 and $1 on tuesdays. The movies are generally the ones that just finished the run at the mainstream theatre as well as new movies that were not deemed good enough to play a the real theatre. **HOT TIP** After finishing your beer at the movie theater roll the can down the aisle! **HOT TIP** Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Weight Watchers NYSE: WTW, founded in the 1960s by Jean Nidetch, is a company offering various dieting products and services to assist weight loss. ... Phar-Mor was a discount drug and department store, similar to Walgreens Michael Monus and David S. Shapira co-founded Phar-Mor, Inc. ... Media Play was a chain of retail stores founded in 1992 that sold movies on video, DVDs, music, video games, books, toys, and games in the United States. ... OfficeMax (NYSE: OMX), is an office supplies retailer founded in 1988 and headquartered in Naperville, Illinois. ...

The "Technodrome", Located Above the food court.

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Future

Rumors and ideas to save the mall continue to circulate. One proposal has most of the space being bulldozed for a WalMart Supercenter while another has a realignment in which half of the mall is replaced with a Costco while the more successful stores are relocated into the other half. In May 2006, initial plans were submitted to demolish much of the mall and rebuild it as a big-box center with a few successful stores surviving. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is a membership warehouse club chain and headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, United States, with its flagship warehouse #1 in nearby Seattle. ...

Price Chopper announced on June 29, 2006 that the South Hills Mall location will close July 15. [2] On July 6, 2006, ShopRite announced that they will open a store in what had been the Price Chopper location sometime in Fall of 2006. [3] Price Chopper is a chain of supermarkets, headquartered in Rotterdam, New York. ... ShopRite (or its full name ShopRite Supermarkets) is a retail cooperative (co-op) chain of supermarkets in the Northeastern United States, in the states of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. ...

Vornado Realty Trust lists the property as a strip shopping center and excludes it from lists of shopping malls. The property profile begins with "Formerly the South Hills Mall..." [4], which suggests that the company plans to go through with the proposal to demolish the enclosed mall. Vornado Realty Trust NYSE: VNO is a New York based Real estate investment trust. ... A shopping mall (or simply mall), shopping center, or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store. ...

www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061021/BUSINESS/610210314/1003 says plans for the mall and that Kmart and burlington coat factory will stay.

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