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Bergen Town Center aka Bergen Mall its very busy here

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On this post, i'll be visiting the second oldest mall in the town of Paramus history of the former Bergen Mall Bergen Mall opened as Paramus second shopping center in 1957 A few months after Garden State Plaza opened. Beginning anchors were Stern's which also headquartered their chain there and moved from NYC. Also JJ Newberry was there. And this shopping center was open air in the early days till it became enclosed in the early 70's  Ohrbach's opened up at the mall 10 years later in 1967 and lasted till  1987 replaced by Steinbach till they closed in 1995 and Value City then replaced Steinbach till the mid 2000's Stern's closed in 2001 after Macy's retired the brand but didn't stick around long since Garden State Plaza and Paramus Park had bigger stores. Century 21 replaced the Macy's till 2020. The Ohrbach's/Steinbach and Value City would be demolished and replaced by a Target. In 2006, The mall would be renamed to the Outlets at Bergen town ce...
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Paramus Park Mall it’s doing okay not dying but looking okay

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 Paramus third shopping center situated on rt 17  Paramus Park's history The mall was developed by The Rouse Company which also developed Woodbridge Center and Willowbrook Mall at the time. It opened in March 1974 with Abraham and Straus or A&S and Sears a few months later that year. This mall hasn't had too many changes in anchors but 1995, Macy's opened their second store in town replacing A&S in which Macy's retired the brand on April 30th Sears closed in 2017 and replaced with specialty supermarket Stew Leonard's Also a small Fortunoff was in the mall but sold only jewerly and nothing more. This mall is doing okay not as big as Garden State Plaza or Bergen Town Center a good number of shuttered store fronts and not too many places to eat in the food court as a few places have shuttered. I ate sushi from Stew Leonard's 10 outta 10.                                       ...
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Garden State Plaza almost 70 years of success

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 One of New Jersey's largest and successful shopping malls going strong almost 70 years later and the first to open as surburbia started growing in the 1950's History of Westfield Garden State Plaza In Paramus The shopping center opened on May 1, 1957 developed by R.H. Macy's opening anchors were Bamberger's and was a open air shopping center in its early days. JC Penny and Gimbels would join the mall in 1958. As the decades went, the mall became enclosed in phases from the 1970's to the 1980's with it being complete. The malls first anchor change came in 1986 as Bamberger's became Macy's. In 1987, Gimbels went out of business and later in the fall of 87 Hahne's opened in the old Gimbels building which was short lived when they saw their fate in 1989. The building was demolished as New Jersey's first Nordstrom would open in September 1990. The 90's the mall had a ton of expansions which included parking decks and two luxury anchors as Neiman ...
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