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The Wayne Towne Center is a regional shopping center located in Wayne, New Jersey, adjacent to Willowbrook Mall along Willowbrook Boulevard. As of 2008, the mall had a gross leasable area of .〔(Wayne Towne Center ), International Council of Shopping Centers, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 4, 2008. Accessed March 31, 2011.〕 The center formerly operated as an indoor shopping mall from the time of its building as the West Belt Mall in the 1970s until 2008, when the last of the mall's secondary tenants closed. The inner portion of the mall has since been demolished. The center's three anchors are JCPenney, Costco, and Dick's Sporting Goods. JCPenney was also an anchor of the original mall and is one of two businesses that survived the mall's closing. Costco was previously located across Willowbrook Boulevard in a subdivided former Fortunoff Backyard Store, doing business there for over two decades as both a Costco and a Price Club, and moved to Wayne Towne Center in October 2014. Dick's was an off-and-on potential tenant from when the center was first considering de-malling; they occupy a two-level store next to JCPenney that opened in November 2014. The center's lone secondary anchor is a DSW Shoe Warehouse, located in the front parking lot of JCPenney. There are also several restaurants around the perimeter, with Olive Garden, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread, Bahama Breeze, and former mall tenant TGI Friday's all having freestanding locations in the center. A Firestone Auto Care Center is located in JCPenney's rear parking lot and a Costco-branded gas station is located in the front lot. ==History== Existing in the shadow of Willowbrook Mall, Wayne Towne Center has had difficulty dating back to 1993, when the Neiman Marcus Last Call outlet headed for Pennsylvania.〔Braue, Marilee Loboda. ("LAST CALL IS PACKING ITS BAGSDISCOUNT RETAILER TO LEAVE WAYNE MALL" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', March 11, 1993. Accessed August 16, 2007.〕 In January 2008, the Borders Books and Music, which replaced Last Call, was one of three North Jersey locations closed by the chain.〔Verdon, Joan. ("Borders to close Wayne, Paramus stores" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'' January 10, 2008. Accessed March 12, 2008〕 The portion of the mall that housed the Borders store was demolished in Fall 2008. Later in 2008, the mall began undergoing what is referred to as "de-malling", which refers to a process where an enclosed shopping center slowly begins a transition to a more traditional shopping center.〔Verdon, Joan. ("To Stay Competitive, Northern New Jersey Malls Remodel, Reposition." ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', February 11, 2004. Accessed August 16, 2007.〕 In order to accomplish this, the remaining stores in the mall were closed one a time as were two of its anchor stores, Old Navy and Loehmann's. The TGI Friday's restaurant that was located in the mall was replaced by a freestanding location in the parking lot, and the remaining two anchors (JCPenney and Fortunoff) sealed off their mall entrances. The TGI Friday's in the frontmost parking lot was joined by Olive Garden and Bahama Breeze restaurants and a DSW Shoe Warehouse store, while a Chipotle Mexican Grill location was added in the JCPenney rear parking lot. Fortunoff went out of business in 2009, thus costing the mall its second anchor, and construction on other buildings stalled when Dick's Sporting Goods chose to pull out temporarily. In a deal closed on December 28, 2010, the mall was purchased by Vornado Realty Trust for $12.1 million from Wells Fargo, along with annual lease payments of $2.5 million for the land. A Vornado spokesman said that the company planned to revamp the property, as Vornado had previously done at The Outlets at Bergen Town Center in Paramus, New Jersey.〔Tangel, Andrew. ("Vornado takes over Wayne Towne Center" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', February 9, 2011. Accessed March 31, 2011.〕 In March 2014, construction began again in earnest and accelerated. The 215,000 square foot Fortunoff store, after undergoing asbestos abatement, was demolished. Dick's Sporting Goods reconsidered its decision to leave and in November 2014, a two-level store was opened adjacent to JCPenney. One month earlier, Costco opened its new location.〔 (last paragraph)〕 Panera Bread opened in the vacant rear half of the Chipotle building. 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「Wayne Towne Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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