Kings Plaza is a shopping center that opened in 1970, within the Marine Park/Mill Basin section of Brooklyn, east of Flatbush Avenue. Originally hosting the now defunct Alexander's, as well as Macy*s department store chains, it began to operate a branch of Sears in 1997, and underwent extensive renovations in 2001. Later, Kings Plaza closed the Waldenbooks book store, Suncoast videos and Sam Goody music store. The Banana Republic store was closed and changed into a children's clothing store named Kidstown (which has also closed) and a Godiva chocolate store was added. CVS also closed and was replaced by a furniture store. An Armani Exchange store was added to the mall.
With approximately 4,200 jobs in retail services and over 120 individual stores, Kings Plaza is the largest such shopping center within the borough of Brooklyn.
It is home to the world's first Sbarro pizza outlet.
Unlike traditional malls in the United States, shoppers visiting Kings Plaza have to pay for parking their cars on mall premises. The parking fee is currently $2 per vehicle. Kings Plaza has closed its outdoor parking lot, where a Lowe's home and hardware store is to be built.
Anchors & Majors
Anchors and major stores at Kings Plaza (in descending order by square footage) are:
- Macy's (325,303 sq ft (30,222 m2))
- Sears (289,215 sq ft (26,869 m2))
- Loews Cineplex Odeon (32,382 sq ft (3,008 m2))
- Old Navy (28,147 sq ft (2,615 m2))
- H&M (24,146 sq ft (2,243 m2))
- Gap/Gap Kids/Baby Gap (22,175 sq ft (2,060 m2))
- Modell's (16,894 sq ft (1,570 m2))
- Express (16,626 sq ft (1,545 m2). total, Express - 10,365 sq ft (963 m2)., Express Men - 6,261 sq ft (582 m2))
- New York & Company (11,118 sq ft (1,033 m2))
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