Quaker Bridge Mall

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Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Quaker Bridge Mall is a two-level super-regional mall located in the Clarksville section of Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. As of 2022, the mall features the traditional anchors Macy's and JCPenney. The mall currently features prominent specialty stores Coach New York, White House Black Market, and Ann Taylor.

The mall is on U.S. Route 1 near Interstate 295. The mall opened in 1975 and is managed by Simon Property Group (which owns 50% of it). It is also the location of the transmitter for the New Jersey–based radio station WKXW, better known as New Jersey 101.5. The mall has a gross leasable area of Template:Convert,[1] making it one of the larger shopping malls in New Jersey.

History

Quaker Bridge Mall opened in 1975 with four anchors: Bamberger's, Hahne's, JCPenney and Sears. The development of the mall helped to spur growth along the Route 1 corridor with the opening of additional shopping and strip centers, as well as the reconstruction of numerous intersections on Route 1 to accommodate the rising levels in traffic.

An AMC four-screen cinema opened February 1977 at the back entrance, under Woolworth's. Anchor store changes took place in 1986 and 1990 when Bamberger's converted to Macy's and the closing of Hahne's allowed for the opening of Lord & Taylor. In 1988–89, the mall was renovated. New flooring was added, new lighting was added, new seating areas added, the child's play area in the Sears wing was removed in favor of a planter and seating area, the majority of the fountains were removed, the mall was painted and the entrances facing Route 1 were redesigned. In the late 1990s, Woolworth's and the movie theater closed.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

A proposed Template:Convert expansion project in the 2000s would have added Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, along with as many as 100 new stores and restaurants.[2] Nordstrom's two-level, Template:Convert store would have been the fifth Nordstrom store in New Jersey.[3] Neiman Marcus had planned to occupy about Template:Convert on two levels.[4] The township approved the new JCPenney building and parking deck in 2008.

In October 2010, the mall received approval from Lawrence Township to expand that included a large-scale renovation of the mall, replacing flooring, the escalator in the center court, and adding an elevator in front of Lord & Taylor and escalators in front of JCPenney, with a new food court added on the upper level.[5]

In May 2018, Sears announced that its store would be closing as part of a plan to close 72 stores nationwide.[6]

In August 2020, Lord & Taylor announced that it would be closing its store at the mall, as part of the chain's nationwide liquidation.[7]

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  2. ↑ Quaker Bridge Mall may grow: Lawrence Planning Board hears effects of proposed redevelopment, The Times, June 22, 2006.
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