Auburn Mall (Massachusetts)

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Auburn Mall
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Auburn Mall (Massachusetts)
Location385 Southbridge St., Auburn, Massachusetts, United States
Opening date1971
DeveloperJMB Realty
Management Simon Property Group
OwnerSimon Property Group (56.4%)
No. of stores and services59 [1]
No. of anchor tenants 3 (2 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area 583,739 square feet (54,231.1 m2) [1]
No. of floors1 (2 in anchors)
Website simon.com/mall/auburn-mall

The Auburn Mall, managed by Simon Property Group, which owns 56.1% of it, is an enclosed shopping mall located on Route 12 in Auburn, Massachusetts, United States, near the intersection of the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) and I-290/I-395.

The mall features Macy's as an anchor. [2] [3]

History

The mall was originally built in 1971 and featured Denholm's and Sears as anchors. [4] Denholm's was converted to Forbes & Wallace, and later to The Outlet, a Providence, Rhode Island-based department store chain. The Outlet store closed in the 1980s and was replaced with Caldor.

The mall underwent a significant renovation in 1997 which added Filene's as a third anchor. [5] Caldor closed in 1999 and was converted to a Filene's home store. [6] In 2006, the two Filene's stores in the mall were both converted to Macy's.

In October 2015, the mall unveiled plans to add a 10-screen cinema and restaurant in the space occupied by Macy's Home Store which closed on December 1, 2015. [7] By April 2016, those plans were approved. [8] However, in November 2016, the mall abandoned previous plans and proposed a new medical center for the Macy's Home Store space. [9] On June 16, 2017, the mall announced that Reliant Medical Group signed a 20-year lease and opened in the space formerly occupied by Macy's Home Store on February 18, 2019. [10]

On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Sears would be closing on February 16, 2020, as part of a plan to close 96 stores nationwide which left Macy's as the only anchor left. [11]

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Coordinates: 42°12′08″N71°50′07″W / 42.2023°N 71.8354°W / 42.2023; -71.8354