Queens Place Mall

88-01 Queens Boulevard | also 88-15 Queens Boulevard | Elmhurst | built 1965

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1965

    Macy's opens a round department store on Queens Boulevard designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

    Announced by R. H. Macy & Co. in 1964 and called by The New York Times the "first of its kind" in the country, the circular store opened in 1965. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the three-story, 330,000-square-foot building, ringed by five levels of parking, and Walter Kidde Constructors built it.

    “The building was designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and erected by Walter Kidde Constructors. The 330,000-square-foot (31,000 m2) building opened in 1965.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1980

    Mary Sendek, the holdout whose house put a notch in the round Macy's, dies

    The store was meant to be a perfect circle, but Mary Sendek would not sell her childhood home on the corner of 55th Avenue and Queens Boulevard. Macy's reshaped the building with a small notch at that corner to clear the air space over her property. Sendek went on living in the little house beside the store until she died in 1980.

    “Mary Sendek—the owner of the corner house at 55th Avenue and Queens Boulevard—held out and refused to sell the property, her childhood home.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2001

    May

    Forest City Ratner buys the former Macy's and turns it into the Queens Place Mall

    Macy's left the building in 1995 for Queens Center and was replaced by Stern's, which moved out in 2000. In May 2001 Federated Department Stores, owner of both chains, sold the building to Forest City Ratner, which added two floors and reopened it as the Queens Place Mall. Madison International Realty acquired it from Forest City Realty Trust on December 22, 2017.

    “…sold the building in May 2001 to Forest City Ratner, which added two floors and converted the building into the Queens Place Mall.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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