Empire Outlets

35B Richmond Terrace | also 55 Richmond Terrace | St. George | built 2018

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The lot about 1940
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About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 2015

    Construction begins on Empire Outlets, New York City's first outlet mall

    Work on the 350,000-square-foot complex beside St. George Terminal started in 2015. Brooklyn-based BFC Partners built it for the developer Empire Outlets Builders, with design by SHoP Architects and structural engineering by DeSimone Consulting Engineers. The complex has 3.5 acres of outdoor space with steps rising to a green roof and a 1,200-space underground garage.

    “Construction on Empire Outlets started in 2015. BFC Partners, based in Brooklyn, constructed Empire Outlets…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2019

    May 15

    Empire Outlets opens after three postponements

    First scheduled for fall 2017, the opening slipped to March 2018 to match the planned New York Wheel next door, then to late 2018 and again to spring 2019. The grand opening came on May 15, 2019, though most stores opened in stages through mid-2019. By that November 30 stores were running and international tourists accounted for nearly two-thirds of spending.

    “The mall's opening date was later set at May 15, 2019.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2021

    August

    NYC Ferry's St. George stop starts service from a dock at Empire Outlets

    Because officials doubted that NYC Ferry's small boats could use the same slip as the much larger Staten Island Ferry vessels, the city's Economic Development Corporation decided in January 2020 to build a separate NYC Ferry landing at Empire Outlets, near SIUH Community Park. The St. George stop opened in August 2021, linking to Battery Park City and West Midtown in Manhattan.

    “…a NYC Ferry dock would instead be built close to the existing terminal, at Empire Outlets closer to SIUH Community Park.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2023

    September 21

    Goldman Sachs buys the foreclosed Empire Outlets at auction for $10 million

    Struggling with loan payments by late 2020, Empire Outlets entered foreclosure in February 2022, with debts of $174 million to Goldman Sachs' Urban Investment Group and $38 million to Sterling National Bank. With the mall still 60 percent vacant in mid-2023, it went to auction on September 21, 2023, where Goldman Sachs took it for $10 million.

    “At the auction, which took place on September 21, 2023, Goldman Sachs acquired Empire Outlets for $10 million.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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