Westfield Sunrise
Westfield Sunrise, commonly known as Sunrise Mall,[1] is a shopping mall located in East Massapequa, New York. The mall opened on August 30, 1972 as the first 2-level shopping center on Long Island, and was originally anchored by JCPenney (now closed), Gertz (later Stern's, now Sears), Macy's, and E. J. Korvette (later Abraham & Straus, then Stern's, then Walmart, now Dick's Sporting Goods and Dave & Buster's). It was remodeled in 1991 and it was acquired by the Westfield Group in 2005.[2]
Location | East Massapequa, New York, U.S. |
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Address | 1 Sunrise Mall, Massapequa, NY 11758 |
Opening date | August 30, 1973 |
Developer | Muss-Tankoos Corporation |
Management | Westfield Group |
Owner | Westfield Group |
Architect | Lathrop Douglass |
No. of stores and services | 91 |
No. of anchor tenants | 5 (4 open, 1 vacant) |
Total retail floor area | 1,200,000 ft² |
No. of floors | 2 (3 in Macy's and Sears, 3rd floor offices in former JCPenney) |
Parking | 7,000 |
Website | https://www.westfield.com/sunrise |
Walmart closed its store in the mall on March 6, 2015.[3]
On March 17, 2017, it was announced that JCPenney would be closing their store here and liquidation sales were expected to begin on April 17, 2017. However, on April 13, 2017, it was announced that due to more shoppers coming to the store, the liquidation sales began on May 22, 2017 instead of April 17, 2017, and the store closed on July 31, 2017.[4]
On August 4, 2020, it was announced that the mall would be going back to its original name, Sunrise Mall.[5]
Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) buses that serve the mall are the n19 (Freeport-Sunrise Mall via Merrick Road), n54 (Hempstead-Sunrise Mall via Washington Avenue), n55 (Hempstead-Sunrise Mall via Jerusalem Avenue), n71 (Hempstead-Sunrise Mall via Hempstead Turnpike), and the n80 (Sunrise Mall-Hicksville via Hicksville Road). The n19 and n80 run rush hours only and the n54 does not run on Sundays, while the n55 and n71 run seven days a week.
Two Suffolk County Transit (SCT) buses, the S20 (Sunrise Mall-Babylon) and S33 (Sunrise Mall-Hauppauge), also serve the mall, with the latter running seven days a week.
See also
References
- Bleyer, Bill. "List of Geographical Misnomers". Newsday. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.
- "Westfield Corp". Westfield.com. 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- "Walmart to close Massapequa store in March". Newsday. 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- "JCPenney Postpones Store Closures". 13 April 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- https://www.newsday.com/business/westfield-sunrise-mall-name-unibail-1.47804427