Cherry Hill Mall
The Cherry Hill Mall is an indoor shopping center located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, within the unincorporated namesake neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) of Cherry Hill Mall, New Jersey.
Cherry Hill Mall signage, 2011 | |
| Location | Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA |
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| Coordinates | 39.941°N 75.025°W |
| Opening date | October 11, 1961 |
| Developer | The Rouse Company |
| Management | PREIT |
| Owner | PREIT |
| No. of stores and services | 160 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,306,000 square feet (121,300 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 (1 in Macy’s wing, 3 in Macy's) |
| Parking | Parking lot, parking garage, valet parking |
| Public transit access | NJ Transit bus: 404, 405, 413, 418, 450, 455 FlixBus (to New York City, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Virginia) |
| Website | www |
The mall opened on October 11, 1961 as the Cherry Hill Shopping Center, designed by architect Victor Gruen and built and managed by The Rouse Company. It was the first indoor, climate-controlled shopping center east of the Mississippi River in the United States. Rouse sold its shopping center portfolio to PREIT in 2003. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,248,347 square feet (115,975.2 m2), placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey. It is currently anchored by JCPenney, Macy's, and Nordstrom.
The farm that was near the site of the Cherry Hill Mall is widely held to be the source of the 1962 renaming of what had been called Delaware Township to its current name of Cherry Hill Township. The town was named Cherry Hill in a voter referendum due to the development of a new U.S. Postal Service office for the region, and historical ties to Cherry Hill Farm, which once occupied land opposite the current mall site, and various locations named for the farm, including the Cherry Hill Estates housing development and the Cherry Hill Inn.