The Mills at Jersey Gardens

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The Mills at Jersey Gardens
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The Mills at Jersey Gardens
Location651 Kapkowski Road
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
United States
Opening dateOctober 21, 1999;24 years ago (October 21, 1999)
Developer Glimcher Realty Trust
Owner Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services230
Total retail floor area 1,292,611 square feet (120,087.5 m2)
No. of floors2
Public transit accessAiga bus trans.svg NJT logo.svg NJ Transit bus: 24, 40, 111, 115
Website http://www.jerseygardens.com

The Mills at Jersey Gardens, originally and also still colloquially called Jersey Gardens, is a two-level indoor outlet mall in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The mall opened on October 21, 1999, and is the largest outlet mall in New Jersey, and much closer to New York City than its largest outlet mall competitor, Woodbury Common. [1]

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The mall was developed by Glimcher Realty Trust and owned and managed by Glimcher until January 2015, when it was sold to Simon Property Group as part of an acquisition of Glimcher by Simon's spinoff Washington Prime Group. [2] Simon owns and manages much of Jersey Gardens' outlet mall competition in the area, including Woodbury Common, and has integrated Jersey Gardens into its "Mills" outlet mall portfolio by renaming it "The Mills at Jersey Gardens". [3]

History

The mall was built on a former landfill, which required remediation prior to the mall development. [4] Plans for the 1,300,000-square-foot (120,000 m2) mall were announced in 1998 by Glimcher Realty Trust, emphasizing the sites proximity to the New Jersey Turnpike and its location in an Urban Enterprise Zone, making purchases eligible for a reduced 3½% (now 3.3125% as of January 1, 2018) sales tax rate, a potent lure for New York City residents paying a sales tax rate over 8%. [5] However, the sales tax on certain items, such as food and drink, have an additional 3% Elizabeth City Franchise Fee.

The mall is located near the Elizabeth Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, off the New Jersey Turnpike at Interchange 13A near Newark Liberty International Airport and is 30 minutes from Midtown Manhattan. The outlet mall has a gross leasable area of 1,292,611 square feet (120,087.5 m2), [6] placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey. The mall contains 230 stores and restaurants. Bus service is available on the NJ Transit 111 bus route that runs between Jersey Gardens and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City.

A direct exit to the facility was constructed, allowing drivers direct access to the mall from the New Jersey Turnpike without driving through local Elizabeth streets. The developer covered the $130 million cost of bonds for the overpass and ramps through property tax payments. [1]

Century 21's Mills at Jersey Gardens location closed by October 5, 2020, [7] after the department store had filed for bankruptcy. [8]

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