Willowbrook Mall
Willowbrook Mall is a one-level shopping center with a partial second floor located in Wayne, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
It is near the intersection of New Jersey Route 23, U.S. Route 46, and Interstate 80 in the New York metropolitan area and is situated close to both Essex and Morris counties near the Passaic River. The mall features more than 165 retail establishments and a leasable area of 1,518,006 square feet (141,027.4 m2). It is the fifth-largest shopping mall in New Jersey.[citation needed] The mall opened in 1969 and was expanded or renovated in 1970, 1988, 2006, and 2015.
As of July 2024, the mall’s four anchor spaces are occupied by Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, BJ’s Wholesale Club, and JCPenney. Macy’s is the longest tenured anchor, having opened with Willowbrook as a Bamberger’s in 1969. Bloomingdale’s opened in 2002 in a former Stern’s location. BJ’s opened its Willowbrook outpost in late 2022 in a portion of the former Sears anchor, which had been downscaled and reconfigured before it was closed. JCPenney, which had been an anchor at neighboring Wayne Towne Center since that mall’s opening, moved to Willowbrook in the spring of 2024 to take over a space previously occupied by Ohrbach’s, Steinbach, and Lord & Taylor.