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The Plymouth Meeting Mall is a shopping mall in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, approximately northwest of Center City, Philadelphia. It is located at Germantown Pike and Hickory Road, near the Mid-County Interchange where the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276) crosses the Northeast Extension/Blue Route (I-476).〔 Built by the Rouse Organization in 1966, it was the third fully enclosed shopping mall in the Philadelphia area. Plymouth Meeting Mall currently contains more than 100 specialty stores and restaurants, including a central Food Court, and outlying restaurants California Pizza Kitchen, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Redstone American Grill, Benihana, Bertucci's, and King Buffet. Its original anchor stores Strawbridge & Clothier and Lit Brothers are now occupied by Macy's and Boscov's. The Boscov's site was once home to one of the largest branches of Hess's. There is also a AMC Theatre on the property, featuring 12 screens and stadium seating. The mall is owned and managed by PREIT (the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust).〔 The mall is recognizable from a considerable distance away due to an adjoining nine-story office tower, One Plymouth Meeting, which was added on an outparcel in 1969. The tower, containing of office space, is managed by Mack-Cali Realty Corporation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mack-cali.com/overview/one-plymouth-meeting-502-west-germantown-pike/PY )〕 The mall suffered a major fire on January 10, 1970 at the east end (near Lit Brothers): "Approximately one third of the 100 stores in the suburban Philadelphia mall were damaged by either smoke, water or the fire."〔("Plymouth Meeting Mall Damaged by Fire," ) ''The Reading Eagle'', January 11, 1970.〕 A redevelopent of over $100 million in 2008-2009 has added new restaurants that were successfully introduced in 2008, and a new open-air "Lifestyle" wing featuring LOFT, Coldwater Creek (now closed), Jos. A. Bank, Chico's and Olly Shoes was opened in late 2009 and early 2010. A Whole Foods upscale grocery market was included in the redevelopment and anchors the "Outdoor Lifestyle Wing" of the property, which now includes an underground parking area.〔 Previously, this location gained fame in 1985 when Swedish furniture company IKEA purchased and renovated an outparcel space for its first U.S. location which drew millions of people to the site. IKEA later moved in the 2000s to its current site at 400 Alan Wood Road, off of the "Blue Route" in nearby Conshohocken; the IKEA building was later demolished to make way for the Outdoor Lifestyle Wing. The Plymouth Meeting was one of the very first malls in North America which, among its mixture of various stores, offered a church within the mall which exists to this day. ==Major stores== *Boscov's (188,400 sq ft.), since 1996. Previously, Lit Brothers (1966-1977); Hess's (1979-1993). *Macy's (214,600 sq ft.), since 2006. Previously, Strawbridge & Clothier (1966-2006). *Whole Foods (65,100 sq ft.), since 2010. 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「Plymouth Meeting Mall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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