Westfield South Shore


Westfield South Shore is a super-regional shopping mall in Bay Shore, New York. The mall is owned by the Westfield Group, and has of gross leasable area.
The mall was opened in 1963 by the R.H. Macy Company, which opened the 3-level, Macy's as the original anchor. The open-air, 70-store first phase of the mall was completed by 1967, and originally included stores such as Record Town, Woolworth's, Lerner Shops, Bond's, and JCPenney, which was the first in-line JCPenney location in the New York area at the time. The mall's Loews Theaters location opened around the same time. In the mid 1970s, there was also a section of the mall divided into an area named "Captree Corners", a bazaar-like setup of small stores clustered into a village-like mini-mall area.
The mall was fully enclosed in 1975. In December 1986, the mall's ownership was sold to the Westfield Corporation for $85 million. Shortly after the change in ownership, plans for an expansion were underway. The renovation/expansion was underway by 1996, which gutted the northern end of the center, which was replaced with of new retail area, along with a newly built, 3-level Sears, which opened in September 1997, and in 2015 closed due to high rent in that space. A 2-level Lord & Taylor eventually opened in late 1998, replacing the former Woolworth. On March 4th, 2012, Macy's closed their original store and the space was converted to a newly built 2-story Macy’s location at the mall that opened on August 14, 2013. On June 16, 2016, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would be opening up two new stores on Long Island—one at Westfield Sunrise and the other at Westfield South Shore. Dick's opened in April 2017 in the former Sears space.
On June 23, 2020, it was announced that JCPenney would be closing by around October 2020 as part of a plan to close 13 stores nationwide.