Plaza at King of Prussia
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The Plaza at King of Prussia is part of what is popularly referred to as the King of Prussia Mall, a huge shopping complex in King of Prussia, which is located in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
The mall is located northwest of Philadelphia on Mall Boulevard, near the crucial juncture of the Schuylkill Expressway (Interstate 76) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. U.S. Highway 422 and U.S. Highway 202 also meet at this interchange.
Its six department store anchors are Lord & Taylor, Sears, JCPenney, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom, with one department store vacant (the former Wanamaker's/Strawbridge's/Macy's.)
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[edit] Original 1963 anchors
- Acme Markets (demolished in 1993, store relocated 1-mile (1.6 km) north on Dekalb Pike.)
- E. J. Korvette (shuttered in 1980 and demolished in 1981)
- JCPenney (moved to former Gimbels and Stern's location in 1992)
- Woolworth (demolished in 1993 and moved into enclosed section which now houses Foot Locker, part of the Woolworth's floor is still visible in a storage room behind the Foot locker)
- Ampitheater (converted to John Wanamaker in 1965)
[edit] 1965-1966 expansion
- John Wanamaker -installed in renovated octagonal ampitheater structure- (rebranded as Hecht's in 1995, Strawbridge's in 1997 and Macy's Plaza in 2006. Shuttered in 2007)
- Gimbels (shuttered in 1986, rebranded as Stern's in 1987)
[edit] 1981-1983 expansion
- Sears (opened in July 1983)
- The Garden Food Court
[edit] 1995-1996 expansion
- Lord & Taylor (opened Fall 1995)
- Nordstrom (opened Spring 1996)
- Neiman Marcus (opened Spring 1996)
[edit] Square Footage
- JCPenney (171,558 sq ft.)
- Lord & Taylor (120,000 sq ft.)
- Vacant (193,500 sq ft.)
- Neiman Marcus (138,775 sq ft.)
- Nordstrom (225,000 sq ft.)
- Sears (215,252 sq ft.)
