this mall has Macys Nordstrom and Filenes but it clsoedlast year i think something mopved in there idk much about this mall i havent been hear in a loooong time i think there might be a Saers and a JC Penny there too idk
filene's did close. the list shows no nordstrom. it said filene's was 160,000 square feet. the mall opened 1987. there was a warner brothers store. is this mall more posh?
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
filene's did close. the list shows no nordstrom. it said filene's was 160,000 square feet. the mall opened 1987. there was a warner brothers store. is this mall more posh?
i got mixed up i was thinking of a diffrent mall ther eis a macys ther ei think something opend in the old filenes space its really just a normel mall not really posh i havent been there in awile
the mall opend in 1982 actley its ancors are Macys Saks Fifth Avenue and it had a filenes witch closed last year
it did open 1982. IS this mall a mini version of providence place?
filene's closed because sales were not as good as the company wanted them.
from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1137907443&subNum=50125000002
this macy's is in stamford ct
from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1137907443&subNum=50125000002
more of stamford mall
from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1137907443&subNum=50125000002
this SAks 5th
from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1137907443&subNum=50125000002
Macy's - 250,000 square foot - 2 floors
Former Filenes - 170,000 square foot - 2 floors
Saks Fifth Avenue - 75,000 square foot - 2 floors
No store moved into the Old Filene's Department Store. Mall has levels 3, 4, 5, and 7 according to the Mall website. Floors 3 & 7 have mall entrances but are small and only have a few small stores but do have esculator, elevator, and stair access to the other levels. Not sure what is on level 6.
More info: http://www.shopstamfordtowncenter.com
Site lists 11 vacant stores ranging from 370 square feet to 11,471 square feet
idk what will move into the old filenes idd say its a good spot for a Blomingdales or a JC Penny or Nordstrom
Anyone know if there is a cinema next to the mall as depicted in the photo above next to Macy's but in the same building? It looks like its an old marquee and probably has a street side entrance.
it would be nice to get a bloomingdale's in the old filene's. add something new to stamford.
QuoteOriginally posted by dayville81
Anyone know if there is a cinema next to the mall as depicted in the photo above next to Macy's but in the same building? It looks like its an old marquee and probably has a street side entrance.
it would be nice to get a bloomingdale's in the old filene's. add something new to stamford.
that filenes clsoed in dec 2004 ive been going to this mall for awile now and yea a bloomingdales would be nice to add to the mall or maby a JC Penny or a Nordstrom
Here's my trip back to Stamford Town Center after almost ten years. Enjoy!
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http://ccsu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2013069&l=075a2&id=48807574
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Here's my trip back to Stamford Town Center after almost ten years. Enjoy!
http://ccsu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2013055&l=9aa38&id=48807574
http://ccsu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2013069&l=075a2&id=48807574
hey nice pics but just to let u know that store beeing guttne dand torndown that was not JC Penny that was Filenes which closed in dec 2004 i dont think JC penny was ever in that mall
The store that is being demolished at the Stamford Mall was a JCPenney before it became a Filene's. It was a JCPenney from the time that the mall opened in 1982 to about 1993 or 1994. The May Company spent about a year gutting the JCPenney space for the Filene's store. It cost them about $15 million. Unfortunately, not even ten years later, the store closed due to poor sales. The Filene's buidling is now being replaced with a lifestyle center. The link below shows a rendering of what it should look like.
http://www.taubman.com/images/pdf_cache/2630.pdf
QuoteOriginally posted by justinguy276
The store that is being demolished at the Stamford Mall was a JCPenney before it became a Filene's. It was a JCPenney from the time that the mall opened in 1982 to about 1993 or 1994. The May Company spent about a year gutting the JCPenney space for the Filene's store. It cost them about $15 million. Unfortunately, not even ten years later, the store closed due to poor sales. The Filene's buidling is now being replaced with a lifestyle center. The link below shows a rendering of what it should look like.
http://www.taubman.com/images/pdf_cache/2630.pdf
what the hell is a life style center?
It's an open-air concept. Look it up on the web. It's like turning the indoor mall inside out. The stores face a sidewalk/street, like a main street setting. The Stamford Mall is supposed to have between six and eight tenants ranging from 4,000 square feet to 40,000 square feet, including restaurants and other stores.
It's an open-air concept. Look it up on the web. It's like turning the indoor mall inside out. The stores face a sidewalk/street, like a main street setting. The Stamford Mall is supposed to have between six and eight tenants ranging from 4,000 square feet to 40,000 square feet, including restaurants and other stores.
sorry for the double post!
thtas kida stupit for a mall like that they should just put anouther ancor there like a nordstom or bloomingdales that would fit right in the mall or maby a discounter like kohls or something
uslay turing a ancore store into mall space dsoent help even if its located outside that can someitmes kill a mall
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
thtas kida stupit for a mall like that they should just put anouther ancor there like a nordstom or bloomingdales that would fit right in the mall or maby a discounter like kohls or something
uslay turing a ancore store into mall space dsoent help even if its located outside that can someitmes kill a mall
how is this mall I have never been it? I heard a bloomingdale's was in stamford and closed in 1990. I AGREE THAT nordstrom or bloomingdale's should come wehre filene's was (IT would have closed anyway due to the merger) and they would fit the area because Stamford is high class. kohl's would not do because it is an off mall department store.
The only reason why they are not putting in another department store is because they want to "open" the mall up. In other words, they want to allow for more natural light to go into the existing mall and at the same time have street level restaurants for the nearby businesses. I agree that a bloomies or nordstrom would work well there. This mall is truly messed up. The mall itself starts at level four (levels 1-3 are parking as well as levels 6-Roof). The mall owners thought that the open-air center was a perfect solution. I disagree. By looking at the above pics it is obvious that they need to remodel the ENTIRE mall and possibly add a third department store.
QuoteOriginally posted by justinguy276
The only reason why they are not putting in another department store is because they want to "open" the mall up. In other words, they want to allow for more natural light to go into the existing mall and at the same time have street level restaurants for the nearby businesses. I agree that a bloomies or nordstrom would work well there. This mall is truly messed up. The mall itself starts at level four (levels 1-3 are parking as well as levels 6-Roof). The mall owners thought that the open-air center was a perfect solution. I disagree. By looking at the above pics it is obvious that they need to remodel the ENTIRE mall and possibly add a third department store.
they have 2 ancor stores saks and macys i really dont think they should make it a life style center just put a bloomingdales or a nordstrom or soemthing the only resion why i said kohls is because kohls has a hadfull of stores that ancore in malls but replacing a ancore store is not the bestthing for a mall that can kill a mall
and i also think they should redue the outside of the mall to maby get rid of the tan bricks or paint them or something rentvated it thats what the mall needs they dont need to teardowen a fromer ancore store just to make space for the mall thst what can kill a mall bescies bloomingdales would fit in the mall with skas as a upscale ancore or some outehr dept store wwould fit liek sears or nordstrom or something
Went back to Stamford Town Center yesterday and have loads more pictures including those of the demolition-in-progress JCPenney. You can view all the pictures of the mall from this and last week's trip on Yahoo Photos.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/xismzero/album?.dir=6c20re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/xismzero/my_photos
QuoteOriginally posted by XISMZERO
Went back to Stamford Town Center yesterday and have loads more pictures including those of the demolition-in-progress JCPenney. You can view all the pictures of the mall from this and last week's trip on Yahoo Photos.
the store was not JC Penny it was filenes JC Penny was there before filenes but they closed in filenes moved in and closed in 2004 i still think its stupit to make it a life style center
Originally it was JCPenney and you can see the label scar on the building.
QuoteOriginally posted by XISMZERO
Originally it was JCPenney and you can see the label scar on the building.
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omg wow im suprized that it was still there even whe it became filenes that jc penny hasent been there since teh early 90's btw nice pictures i ahvent been to this mall in awile i remember it use to be filled with criam mugging stabings somoen got mudred there i believe back in the late 80's or early 90's but from what i know now it has cnaged but yea i havent been there in like 5 years its verye simaler to the mall in white planes which also had a JC Penny at one point the store clsoed in 2001 and became a sears latter that year that mall opend in 1985 i believe
disney store is not on the listings i heard there was one and i heard warner brothers store was too.
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
disney store is not on the listings i heard there was one and i heard warner brothers store was too.
there also use to be one in teh danbury mall also did they gob???
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
disney store is not on the listings i heard there was one and i heard warner brothers store was too.
there also use to be one in teh danbury mall also did they gob???
YES the went WOB
about stamford mall, still nordstrom would have worked or bloomingdales could have returned since stamford is wealthy, but then white plains is 20 minutes away.
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
disney store is not on the listings i heard there was one and i heard warner brothers store was too.
there also use to be one in teh danbury mall also did they gob???
YES the went WOB
about stamford mall, still nordstrom would have worked or bloomingdales could have returned since stamford is wealthy, but then white plains is 20 minutes away.
that is true theres alsoa nordstrom and a meman marcus 20 mins away maby a boscoves would fit in there
yes I heard this mall was renovated in 1994 and jc penny was ousted out for filene's
LOOK AT THIS FOR THE MALL
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-barnes4jul29,0,2253625.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines
Barnes & Noble store coming to Town Center
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By Peter Healy
Staff Writer
Published July 29 2006
STAMFORD -- A 40,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble bookstore is the first tenant the Stamford Town Center mall has recruited for a new retail wing that will replace the old Filene's store next year.
The two-level store is scheduled to open in October 2007, the mall and the New York City-based book chain said yesterday.
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Demolition of the Filene's store at the corner of Tresser Boulevard and Greyrock Place, which closed in January 2005, was completed yesterday, mall management said.
Barnes & Noble said the store that will stock almost 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles will be its largest in Connecticut.
Its children's department will carry 15,000 titles.
"The fact that Barnes & Noble has chosen Stamford Town Center for one of its largest stores nationwide says a lot about how this area attracts the best of the best -- and it is obviously the perfect complement to our downtown retail market," Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy said in a statement.
Rumors had circulated for the past several months that Barnes & Noble was interested in opening a store in the mall, but the publicly traded company did not confirm plans for a Stamford location until yesterday,
"We've been looking for a store in Stamford for a long time, but we haven't been able to find the right space until now," said Don Kuszmar, Barnes & Noble's real estate director. "We were thrilled when this property became available because we think it's the best location to serve Stamford's solid, well-educated community."
The store will feature plenty of frills. Barnes & Noble, operator of 799 bookstores nationwide, said the new store will have a cafe that serves Starbucks coffee and items from the Cheesecake Factory.
Customers will be able to sample any of 200,000 CD music titles at listening stations.
An in-store newsstand will offer more than 2,000 titles, including hundreds of hard-to-find specialty magazines, and out-of-town and foreign newspapers.
News of the Barnes & Noble store comes after the July 2 opening of a 4,100-square-foot Apple Store that sells computers, iPods and other products on the Stamford mall's Level 4.
Critics, including retail consultants, have said the shopping center should find more popular retailers that would attract shoppers.
Apple and Barnes & Noble are "big wins" and other trendy retailers might follow them to the Town Center, said Kevin Coupe, editor of Darien-based Morningnewsbeat.com, a news and information service for retailers.
"Finally, the Stamford Town Center seems to understand the notion of destination retail," Coupe said. "Putting in a 40,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble superstore is a terrific idea. It gives you a reason to go to the mall. It creates a sense of community. It is something the Town Center has needed for a long, long time."
Norman Lotstein, retail specialist with Pyramid Real Estate Group in Stamford, agreed.
"Barnes & Noble is a wonderful addition to the downtown and is likely to be just one of a number of first-rate merchants that will be attracted to the new, outwardly oriented addition to the Town Center," Lotstein said.
The 140,000-square-foot wing in the former Filene's area is slated to have a glass-enclosed coterie of eight stores, plus walkways, sidewalk restaurants and a new Tresser Boulevard entrance that will be pedestrian-friendly.
The mall is getting building permits for the Barnes & Noble store and construction of the addition will start within the next few weeks, said Michael McAndrews, the Town Center's general manager.
He said the addition will have about 110,000 rentable square feet and the rest will be elevators, lobbies and other public space.
"A mega-bookstore with access to the street will be a great asset to the community," he said.
Sandra Goldstein, executive director of the Stamford Downtown Special Services District, called Barnes & Noble "an extraordinary coup for the mall's renaissance."
"To get a bookstore that is building its premier, showcase urban model in our city is just phenomenal," she said.
Barnes & Noble will join the mall's other book seller, a 3,900-square-foot Waldenbooks store located on Level 5.
Holley Stein, spokeswoman for Waldenbooks parent company, Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Borders Group Inc., said Waldenbooks will remain in the mall after Barnes & Noble arrives.
Waldenbooks renewed its lease at the Town Center this past spring.
thats still no good replcemtne for a big ancore the mall need something more if anything this is gonna kill the mall insted of make it better if they wanted to do something they should have spited the filenes into to ancore stores or something like that
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
thats still no good replcemtne for a big ancore the mall need something more if anything this is gonna kill the mall insted of make it better if they wanted to do something they should have spited the filenes into to ancore stores or something like that
maybe all those combined will get as much traffic as filene's did. it said filene's sales where not up to par.
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
thats still no good replcemtne for a big ancore the mall need something more if anything this is gonna kill the mall insted of make it better if they wanted to do something they should have spited the filenes into to ancore stores or something like that
maybe all those combined will get as much traffic as filene's did. it said filene's sales where not up to par.
maby its just a bad spot in the mall idk i mean the fritts few flros are parking i mean tahst kida confuseing for people
looks like its loosing another major store that has been there since the mall first opened
http://www.city-data.com/forum/connecticut/1816759-saks-fifth-avenue-stamford-closing.html
some pictures from its construction
August 1981
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late summer 1982
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Quote from: Caldor1999 on January 10, 2014, 11:27:14 AM
looks like its loosing another major store that has been there since the mall first opened
http://www.city-data.com/forum/connecticut/1816759-saks-fifth-avenue-stamford-closing.html
Saks is going to be returning to this mall in the form of their off 5th discount store.
Man, this mall has taking a turn for the worst. I lived in Stamford for 2.5 years before moving to NC. Its becoming a dead mall.
In 2019, J. Crew, Armani Exchange, Ann Taylor, Chico’s, Gymboree, Payless ShoeSource, The Walking Co., Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma and Pandora Jewelry all closed. Also, owner Taubman Centers which built it back in the 1980's and the same owner of Westfarms put it up for sale, like they knew it was a dying mall.
So far just in 2020, H&M, Clarks, Uniqlo, Boost Mobile and Forever 21 have or are set to close. Macy's, I am shocked wasn't on the closing list. It still looks like the 1980's in it and its very old and dumpy.
Some of these stores like Pandora relocated to the brand new SoNo Collection in Norwalk, which many say is to blame for so many closures.
Quote from: TRU7536 on January 09, 2020, 08:47:30 PM
Man, this mall has taking a turn for the worst. I lived in Stamford for 2.5 years before moving to NC. Its becoming a dead mall.
In 2019, J. Crew, Armani Exchange, Ann Taylor, Chico’s, Gymboree, Payless ShoeSource, The Walking Co., Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma and Pandora Jewelry all closed. Also, owner Taubman Centers which built it back in the 1980's and the same owner of Westfarms put it up for sale, like they knew it was a dying mall.
So far just in 2020, H&M, Clarks, Uniqlo, Boost Mobile and Forever 21 have or are set to close. Macy's, I am shocked wasn't on the closing list. It still looks like the 1980's in it and its very old and dumpy.
Some of these stores like Pandora relocated to the brand new SoNo Collection in Norwalk, which many say is to blame for so many closures.
Looks like the Apple store is leaving the mall and relocating to SoNo.
https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/10/apple-store-stamford-closing/