| Auburn Mall | |
| Location: | 385 Southbridge St., Auburn, Massachusetts, United States |
| Opening Date: | 1971 |
| Developer: | JMB Realty |
| Owner: | Simon Property Group (56.4%) |
| Number Of Stores: | 59[1] |
| Number Of Anchors: | 3 (1 open, 2 vacant) |
| Floor Area: | 583739square feet |
| Floors: | 1 (2 in anchors) |
| Website: | simon.com/mall/auburn-mall |
The Auburn Mall, managed by Simon Property Group, which owns 56.1% of it, is an enclosed shopping mall located on Route 12 in Auburn, Massachusetts, United States, near the intersection of the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) and I-290/I-395.
The mall features Macy's as an anchor.[2] [3]
The mall was originally built in 1971 and featured Denholm's and Sears as anchors.[4] Denholm's was converted to Forbes & Wallace, and later to The Outlet, a Providence, Rhode Island–based department store chain. The Outlet store closed in the 1980s and was replaced with Caldor.
The mall underwent a significant renovation in 1997 which added Filene's as a third anchor.[5] Caldor closed in 1999 and was converted to a Filene's home store.[6] In 2006, the two Filene's stores in the mall were both converted to Macy's.
In October 2015, the mall unveiled plans to add a 10-screen cinema and restaurant in the space occupied by Macy's Home Store which closed on December 1, 2015.[7] By April 2016, those plans were approved.[8] However, in November 2016, the mall abandoned previous plans and proposed a new medical center for the Macy's Home Store space.[9] On June 16, 2017, the mall announced that Reliant Medical Group signed a 20-year lease and opened in the space formerly occupied by Macy's Home Store on February 18, 2019.[10]
On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Sears would be closing on February 16, 2020, as part of a plan to close 96 stores nationwide which left Macy's as the only anchor left.[11]