SouthCoast Marketplace
 New Harbour Mall in 2010. | |
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| Location | Fall River, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°40′20″N 71°09′27″W / 41.6722°N 71.1575°W |
| Opening date | 1971 (New Harbour Mall) October 7, 2017 (SouthCoast Marketplace)[1] |
| Closing date | January 2, 2016 (New Harbour Mall) |
| Owner | CEA Group |
| No. of stores and services | 26 |
| Total retail floor area | 377,000 sq ft (35,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | southcoastmarketplace |
SouthCoast Marketplace is a power center in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States, at the intersection of Route 24 and Route 81. The center opened in 2017 and replaced the New Harbour Mall, an enclosed shopping mall that was located at the site from 1971 to 2016.
New Harbour Mall was noted for having once been the only shopping center in the United States to feature rival department store chains Kmart and Walmart as its anchor stores until 2013.[2][3] The mall closed its doors on Jan 2, 2016 to undergo a $50 million renovation by the CEA Group, and was demolished and replaced by SouthCoast Marketplace.[4]
History
[edit]Harbour Mall opened in 1971 with discounters Bradlees and Grant City (the discount division of W.T. Grant) as its anchor stores,[5] the latter of which was converted to Kmart following the 1976 closure of the Grant City chain. Except for the addition of a movie theater in 1984, Harbour Mall remained largely unchanged until a 1993 renovation which added skylights, new entrance canopies, and re-designing of the common mall areas.[6]
The mall's movie theaters closed in September 2007.[7][8]
In its final years, the New Harbour Mall was largely empty except for its anchor stores.[9] In 2015, a reporter for the Fall River's Herald News described the mall's interior as "Dark, depressing and almost eerie, with most of its store spaces shuttered and empty."[9] Among the few interior stores left in the mall at that time were Payless ShoeSource and Rainbow, with other previous tenants such as GNC and RadioShack having already closed their locations in the mall after Walmart relocated to a new, larger store elsewhere in Fall River in 2013.[9] The interior of the mall was closed on January 2, 2016.[10] Kmart, the last remaining anchor tenant, closed its store in the mall in May 2016.[11]
Following its conversion from the New Harbour Mall to SouthCoast Marketplace, the property is now a power center with no indoor mall sections.[12][13] The anchor tenants of the plaza, according to the official website, are Market Basket, T.J. Maxx, and Picture Show Theaters. All of which opened in October 2017.[14] Other tenants include PetSmart, Staples, Old Navy, Ulta Beauty, Supercuts, Five Below, Qdoba, Five Guys, Starbucks, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, and Jersey Mike's Subs.[15][16]
References
[edit]- ^ Allard, Deborah (October 3, 2017). "Opening day is set for Fall River's Market Basket: Here's a sneak peak[sic]". Herald News. Archived from the original on October 4, 2017.
- ^ Parker, Paul Edward (May 25, 2001). "Kmart, Wal-Mart Anchor New Fall River, Mass., Mall". Providence Journal. Archived from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ^ Fasig, Lisa Biank (June 18, 2002). "Wal-Mart, Kmart Vie for Customers in the Same Fall River, Mass., Mall". Providence Journal. Archived from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ^ "Massachusetts Has Lost Another Once-Thriving Mall". news413.com. February 16, 2024.
- ^ Grimaldi, Paul (April 28, 2007). "New Harbour Mall Cinema 8 bought". Providence Journal. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ^ "Westchester firms launch $1M mall revitalization". Real Estate Weekly. January 20, 1993. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ^ "New Harbour Mall Cinemas". CinemaTreasures.org. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ^ Allard, Deborah (September 18, 2007). "The End". The Herald News. Archived from the original on December 28, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
- ^ a b c Allard, Deborah. "Time has taken its toll on New Harbour, Swansea malls". The Herald News, Fall River, MA. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ O'Connor, Kevin P. "Doors officially close at New Harbour Mall". The Herald News, Fall River, MA. Archived from the original on May 24, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ Towne, Shaun (March 1, 2016). "Fall River Kmart to close in late May". WPRI. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ O'Connor, Kevin P. "Work begins to transform former New Harbour Mall". The Herald News, Fall River, MA. Archived from the original on May 24, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ Nunes, Rachel (October 24, 2017). "New businesses set to open at SouthCoast Marketplace". WPRI. Archived from the original on May 24, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ Pobzeznik, Marcia. "Market Basket to open in Fall River, Mass". The Newport Daily News. Archived from the original on May 24, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ "Shopping". SouthCoast Marketplace. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ "Dining & Entertainment". SouthCoast Marketplace. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
