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Dutchess Mall was an enclosed shopping mall in Fishkill, New York, United States. Currently, the former mall property is the site of a Home Depot, as well as one vacant buildings (previously occupied by Service Merchandise), with the rest of the property awaiting further redevelopment. Dagar Group manages the shopping center. R.C. Chera Realty Group is the exclusive leasing broker for the existing vacant structure.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=R.C. Chera Realty Group - The Dutchess Mall Site Profile )〕 ==History== Dutchess Mall opened in 1974 as the first mall in Dutchess County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Dagar Group Properties Ltd. ) 〕 The mall occupied a portion of a site once occupied by the Fishkill Encampment and Supply Depot, which has been listed on the National Register of Historical Places since Dutchess Mall's opening.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fishkill Historical focus )〕 The Fishkill Encampment was previously slated for conversion to a national park, but the plan was rejected.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fading into history: Fishkill depot defenseless against mall )〕 Original anchors of the mall included J. W. Mays Company and Luckey Platt, two local department stores;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Route 9 offers promise of busy commerce ) 〕 other major tenants included Flah's (another local department store)〔 and Drug World (a pharmacy), as well as Radio Shack and Waldenbooks. J. W. Mays closed in the 1980s and was replaced with Gaynes.〔http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19851110&id=E5FGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=njMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3136,947795〕 Gaynes, in turn, was converted to discounter Jamesway in 1988, which closed in 1994. Luckey Platt closed in the 1980s and was replaced with Service Merchandise, which closed on December 24, 1996.〔 The former Service Merchandise was soon replaced with the Dutchess Flea Market. With both anchor stores gone, the already declining mall began its collapse, and by 2001 only the flea market remained. For many years, Dutchess Mall was the only mall serving its area; however, it was often unable to attract many big-name tenants, due to rumors of a larger mall opening nearby. The rumored mall, which would have been anchored by Macy's, never came to fruition.〔 Because it could not attract stores easily, and because the anchor stores had changed, the Dutchess Mall was quick to lose tenants, eventually replacing a large portion of retail space with a satellite campus of Marist College. Other problems plaguing the mall included an outdated mall design; competition from the nearby Poughkeepsie Galleria and South Hills Mall; and the advent of big box retail.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dutchess Mall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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