Cherry Hill Mall its a very successful mall in South Jersey

 A look at the Cherry Hill Mall 

Cherry Hill opened in 1961 in which the Rouse Company and famed designer Victor Gruen would develop this shopping center well before Rouse developed Willowbrook, Woodbridge and Paramus Park in the late 60's to early 70's. 

The mall opened in 1961 with Strawbridge and Clothier, Woolworth's, S.S. Kresge and Food Fair. Newark based Bamberger's would join the mall in 1962. The malls third anchor wouldn't come for a full decade which was in 1979 as JC Penny opened. Anchor changes would be Bamberger's converting to Macy's in 1986 and Strawbridge's closing in 2006 as the store would be demolished to make way for a Nordstrom and the first one in the South Jersey region in 2009. after the chain opened stores in central and northern New Jersey in the 1990's. The mall has gone thru renovations in the 1990's and late 2000's. Also coming to Cherry Hill will be Dick's house of sport concept which will replace the One Cherry Hill office tower. Just a few minutes from crossing the Delaware to Center City Philadelphia, this mall and Deptford are the two successful malls in that region. It was very packed here on Black Friday. It took me almost 20 mins to find parking and 40 mins to get out to get to RT 38.


                                                   then and now Macy's and Bamberger's

















                                      The one Cherry Hill tower was demolished to make way for Dick's house of                                                                        sport coming next year











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