Garden State Plaza
Garden State Plaza (officially Westfield Garden State Plaza) is a shopping mall located in Paramus, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Owned and managed by Paris-based real estate management company Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the mall is situated at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 17 near the Garden State Parkway, about 15 miles (24 km) west of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Opened in 1957 as the first suburban shopping mall in New Jersey, it has 300 stores and 2,118,718 sq ft (196,835.3 m2) of leasable space, ranked in 2022 as the 16th-largest shopping mall in United States and qualifying it as a super-regional mall according to the standards of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Interior of Garden State Plaza, 2014 | |
| Location | Paramus, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40.91896°N 74.07639°W |
| Address | 1 Garden State Plaza |
| Opening date | May 1, 1957 |
| Developer | R.H. Macy Company |
| Management | Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield |
| Owner | Unibail-Rodamco Westfield |
| No. of stores and services | 300 (As of March 2014) |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 at 1957 opening |
| Total retail floor area | 2,118,718 sq ft (196,835.3 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 (3 in Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom) |
| Parking | Parking lot, parking garage, and valet parking with 10,796 parking spaces. |
| Public transit access | NJ Transit bus: 163, 171, 175, 707, 709, 756, 758, 770 |
| Website | westfield |
The mall had sales of $775 per square foot in 2013, almost 75% above the national average. In a study of malls in the United States performed on behalf of CNBC, published in 2018, Garden State Plaza ranked ninth in the nation, based on sales of $950 per square foot. Most of the mall, especially retail outlets, is closed on Sunday in accordance with state and local blue laws. Since April 2023, minors under the age of 18 are required to have an adult over 21 supervise them on Friday and Saturday nights.
In a borough where half of the property tax revenue comes from retail properties, Garden State Plaza accounts for 10% of the property taxes collected in Paramus.
As of August 2022, its anchors are Macy's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and AMC Theatres.