The biggest malls in America

There is plenty of malls in the USA; but not all malls are as good as others, and some are very impressive. The biggest malls in America are all over the country and each one has its own special features and attractions which you may want to add to your list of things to visit.

1) Palisades Center

The Palisades Center in West Nyack, New York, which was opened in March 1998, is still running today. The four-level shopping mall features 225 stores and 16 sit-down restaurants enclosed inside. Besides, it is also feature-wise plenty with guest attractions such as a bowling alley, ice rink, and indoor ropes course. Palisades Center has 2 million square feet of store space which can be leased and it is owned by EklecCo NewCo LLC a division of Pyramid Management Group. The mortgage lender Wilmington Trust is now considering to foreclose Palisades after EklecCo did not repay a $418. 2016 had a full loan of 5 million and Patch reported last month that the loan was paid in full. Wilmington Trust has sued Pyramid and asked the New York Supreme Court to make mall tenants pay rent directly to the firm till the Palisades Center is sold.

2) Roosevelt Field

Roosevelt Field, which is slightly larger than Sawgrass Mills, having an area of 2,344,758 square feet in Garden City, New York is considered the second largest mall in the United States. The shopping mall has 257 stores that comprise of Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, and Macy’s. Besides, the mall hosts the Glowgolf and the AMC movie theater. Roosevelt Field hotels, such as the Residence Inn by Marriott and Hyatt Place, are also available for night shopping. Roosevelt Field mall is the property of Simon Property Group, which has been its owner for 25 years.

The property became operation in 1956 for the first time.

3) Destiny USA

Destiny USA, which is under the management of Pyramid Management Group, opened in October 1990 in Syracuse, New York. At 2. A 4 million square feet mall, which has 250 stores among them restaurants for the shoppers to visit, is the mall. Besides the retail shops, there are more than a dozen entertainment options available inside the mall that include laser tag, a mirror maze, and its famous antique carousel. A whopping twenty-six million visitors go to Destiny USA every year, as stated on its website. Now, a new Embassy Suites by Hilton hotel at the mall is avaliable, this could also be a perfect place for you to rest after a long day of shopping.

4) Ala Moana Center

Ala Moana Center in Honolulu is the world’s largest open-air shopping mall, as the website of its website claims. Spanning 2. The mall provides a total of 4 million square feet, including 239 retail stores and 116 dining options for customers. AmIday new shops are going to open at Ala Moana, among them there are Ray-Ban, Levi’s and a Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse retail location, Khon2 reported. Besides, the main mall also has some of the old entertainment options like bowling while Ala Moana has free daily hula shows. The four-story mall is the property of Brookfield Properties and it was opened in August 1959 for the first time.

5) Galleria

The Galleria in Houston, Texas, which started its operation in November 1970, attracts an average of 30 million visitors annually. The mall is basically a copy of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Consequently, it is the habitation of many luxury shops which are famous for Gucci, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Prada, and Versace. In short, there are 319 shops and more than 60 eating places in total for the shoppers to select from. The mall, which belongs to Simon Property Group, has 2. The proposed revitalization plan provides for 4 million square feet of leasable retail space.

6) Del Amo Fashion Center mall

Del Amo Fashion Center mall is situated beyond Los Angeles, California, with more than 2 miles of its length. 5 million square feet. The mall, which is also owned by Simon, has more than 250 stores, including Coach and Tesla, and restaurants like Taiwanese chain Din Tai Fung, which are also part of the Simon Outlets.

Indeed, Del Amo Fashion Center is the typical Southern California shopping mall, which is full of palm trees and has its own wall of living plants, as you can find on its website. As of now, citizens will be able to reside where they shop. The Torrance City Council gave a green light to the plans made in March to develop a 200-unit apartment complex on the site of the parking lot adjacent to the mall.

7) South Coast Plaza

South Coast Plaza, a shopping and dining mall in Orange County, California, has more than twenty-four restaurants and two hundred fifty boutiques among them, high fashion brands like Gucci, Dior and Balenciaga. The 2. A 8 million-square-foot shopping center that now occupies the place where the Segerstrom family once farmed lima beans, which they turned into an agricultural empire is located. The Segerstroms started to open South Coast Plaza in March 1967, and it had 70 stores, including Sears as an anchor tenant, and the mall celebrated its 55th anniversary in 2022. Over 20 million people annually go to the South Coast Plaza as a fact stated by the website of this shopping centre.

8) South Florida’s Aventura Mall

South Florida’s Aventura Mall is a mall of 2. 8 million feet and 300 retailers, such as Louis Vuitton, Herms, Lacoste, Nike, and more, are there. The mall that is located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale is a home for more than 20 pieces of art, including the interactive Rainbow Valley Playground for children and the Aventura Slide Tower, a 93-foot-tall working slide created by Carsten Hller. Aventura Mall is a mall of Turnberry, a company that also operates two other Florida-based shopping centers.

9) King of Prussia mall

King of Prussia mall, which is owned by Simon-Smith, is the third largest mall in the country with a total area of 2. 9 million square feet. The mall, which was founded in 1963, is for the people who live in the Philadelphia area. In 2016, it added another 155,000-square feet of space to the existing structure, this by adding 50 new retail and dining locations.

Nowadays, King of Prussia hosts over 450 shops and restaurants such as Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s, Maggiano’s Little Italy, and others. The mall that just recently declared that seven new stores would be opening in the near future, among others, are Balenciaga, Uniqlo, and Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy eatery.

10) The American Dream

The American Dream, which is the second biggest mall in the United States of America, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex, New Jersey, has the same square footage as the its sister mall Mall of America. The American Dream covers roughly 3 million square feet and in addition to over 100 stores which include Apple, Saint Laurent, and Saks Fifth Avenue, the website of the American Dream says so. Nevertheless, the mall advertises as being more than a shopping place.

American Dream is the largest indoor theme park and the largest indoor water park in the nation, it has a giant ferris wheel, an indoor mini golf, a mirror maze, an ice rink, indoor skiing, and a wave pool. American Dream is a multibillion-dollar project that has been in the making for more than 20 years and it was opened in October 2019, just months before the pandemic broke and shopping centers across the country were closed. Afterward, the mall had to pay its debts which caused its financial difficulties. On the first of March, the mall’s owner, Triple Five Group declined to agree to the borough of East Rutherford’s request to change the date of the closing of the mall, and thus the borough filed a lawsuit against the owner. 5 million in payments.

Capacity

On the establishment of the Mall of America in 1992 it became the biggest mall in the country with more than 5. 6 million square feet. Mall of America, which is located outside of Minneapolis, is the main attraction of the city that draws 40 million visitors annually to its 520 shops and restaurants. Mall of America is not only for shopping but also for a great time. It has a Nickelodeon theme park, an immersive Crayola Experience, an aquarium, and a flight simulator among other attractions. The owner of Mall of America, Triple Five Group, used the mall as a guarantee for its US megamall, American Dream, and the lenders that organized this project, such as JPMorgan, seized a minority stake in Mall of America in 2021 while the financial troubles of American Dream were being dealt with.