Stamford Town Center
| Location | Downtown Stamford, Connecticut |
|---|---|
| Opening date | 1982 |
| Developer | F.D. Rich Co. |
| No. of stores and services | about 130 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 853,000 sq ft (79,200 m2) |
| No. of floors | 4 (anchors have 2) |
Stamford Town Center is a shopping mall in Downtown Stamford, Connecticut. The 853,000-square-foot (79,200 m2) mall is the eighth largest in Connecticut, with space for about 130 stores and restaurants. It includes a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) Macy's, a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) Barnes & Noble, and a 78,000-square-foot (7,200 m2) Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH as anchors. The 1991 picture, Scenes from a Mall, was partially filmed at this center.
Built by F.D. Rich Co, and opened in 1982, the mall's site was part of the Landmark urban renewal project and had been the location of tenement structures that once lined Greyrock Place, the street which is its primary address. Saks Fifth Avenue opened its store in the mall on March 12, 1983. A third anchor, a 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m2) Filene's closed in 2005 (before the merger of the May Department Stores and Federated Department Stores), as the store's sales were not up to par. This location originally opened as a JCPenney store, but was eventually shuttered and replaced by Filene's in 1996. The far south end of the mall which housed JCPenney and Filene's was demolished in 2006 and was replaced by a pedestrian-oriented exterior complex of retail stores and restaurants that directly connects to the mall. It opened on November 1, 2007 with a two-story Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
The construction of the mall and adjacent office towers had a profound effect on the face of downtown Stamford during the 1970s and 1980s, and was profiled in a May 8, 1988 article in The New York Times headlined "A Town Sells Off Pieces of its Soul."
Stamford Town Center has four floors of shopping - floors 3, 4, 5 and 7, with The Food Court located on the 7th floor. The supporting parking structure has space for 4,000 cars and is situated in levels below and above the mall, thus forming a kind of mall and parking 'sandwich'.
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