MALLS: Jersey Gardens MILLS

On January 15, 2015, Simon Property Group's spinoff company, Washington Prime and Ohio-based mall operator Glimcher officially merged and became WP Glimcher. In addition, two of Glimcher's properties went to Simon. University Park Village, a lifestyle center in Fort Worth, Texas and most importantly, Jersey Gardens in Elizabeth City, New Jersey, which Glimcher built and owned since 1999.

Jersey Gardens is a two-level, 200 tenant outlet mall which has a racetrack layout with stores on the outer and inner rims and an AMC theater on the outside. It is dubbed (and still) as New Jersey's largest outlet mall.

The mall was built in the craze of the Mills properties, including Concord & Katy Mills, which were also built in 1999 and shares some characteristics of those said malls. Before the 2012 remodel into "The Outlet Collection|Jersey Gardens,"  the Gardens was colorful and may had graphics throughout the mall. 

And now, as of January 15, 2015, the mall is now known as:

I like the name. Simon kept the Jersey Gardens name in full and replacing the Outlet Collection moniker into their Mills platform. Since I love Mills malls more than regular outlet centers and malls, Jersey Gardens is a perfect fit and on my main Mills mall post that I did in September 2014, I had named it as a similarity. Now I had put it in along with the rest of the Mills malls, where it belongs.

Since I have been to New Jersey before (not since 2001) I have seen the mall before and its Ikea from the famous NJ Turnpike. Do not be surprised if I visit this mall this year or next and if I do, it'll be my 5th Mills property visited.

WORKS CITED:
Mall Map as the Outlet Collection
News Release from Simon
Trip Advisor