The Mall at Fox Run, formerly Fox Run Mall, is a shopping mall in Newington, New Hampshire, just north of Portsmouth. Its main anchor stores include JCPenney, Macy's Men's & Home Store (formerly Jordan Marsh) and Macy's Women's (formerly Filene's). At 603,618 square feet (56,077.9 m2), it is New Hampshire's fourth-largest mall, with 84 shops, all on one level. Completed in 1983, this mall functioned mainly as a successor to the smaller and dated Newington Mall, which has since been converted into a big box retail center.
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.jpg) An entrance to the Mall at Fox Run, August 2022 | |
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| Location | Newington, New Hampshire, United States |
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| Coordinates | 43°05′51″N 70°48′19″W / 43.09750°N 70.80528°W |
| Address | 50 Fox Run Rd. |
| Opening date | February 1983[1] |
| Owner | Torrington Properties[2] |
| No. of stores and services | 84 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 (3 open, 1 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 603,618 square feet (56,078 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | www |
| Logo shown was used before 2011 (logotype written as "Fox Run Mall" until then) and since 2018 | |
The mall is located just off U.S. Route 4 and the Spaulding Turnpike (NH Route 16). It is less than five minutes from Interstate 95. The mall is just 3 miles (5 km) from the Maine state border, and like the Pheasant Lane Mall and the Mall at Rockingham Park near the Massachusetts border, the Fox Run Mall draws a significant portion of its business from out-of-state customers (mostly from Maine) seeking to take advantage of New Hampshire's tax-free retail climate.[citation needed]
For many years, the Mall at Fox Run had four anchor department stores: Sears, J. C. Penney, Macy's (formerly Jordan Marsh), and Filene's. The Filene's brand was discontinued following the Federated and May merger. Fox Run was one of a small number of malls where the former Filene's (or Lord & Taylor) store was converted into a second Macy's store. The other malls that have done this are the Cape Cod Mall in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and the Northshore Mall in Peabody, Massachusetts. This gives Macy's at Fox Run a total area of nearly 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2), on par with many of the intermediate-sized Macy's stores nationwide, and makes Macy's the largest department store (in total square feet) in the mall.[citation needed]
In 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at the Mall at Fox Run, into Seritage Growth Properties.[3]
On October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of its plan to close 142 stores nationwide.[4] The space has been empty since 2019.
The mall was originally managed by Jones Lang Lasalle, and from 2011 through 2017 by Simon Properties.[1] From January 1, 2018 until August 3, 2023, the mall was leased and managed by Spinoso Real Estate Group.
Since then, it has been acquired by Massachusetts-based property management group Torrington Properties for $17.5 million dollars.[5] In addition to the mall, Torrington also owns the adjacent Newington Park Shopping Center, which they took ownership of in 2021.[6]
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edit- ^ a b "New management to take over Fox Run Mall". Seacoastonline.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
- ^ Lacaillade, Josh (2023-08-03). "New Hampshire mall has new owner". WMUR. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ "At Fox Run Mall | Seritage". seritage.com. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022.
- ^ Cronin, Mike (October 16, 2018). "Another NH Sears store to close after company declares bankruptcy". WMUR.
- ^ "Mall at Fox Run in Newington Sold". Portsmouth, NH Patch. August 1, 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^ "Portsmouth Herald". www.seacoastonline.com. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
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