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| Location | Bay Shore, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′25″N 73°14′45″W / 40.740242°N 73.245969°W / 40.740242; -73.245969 |
| Opening date | August 30, 1963; 60 years ago (August 30, 1963) |
| Developer | R.H. Macy Company |
| Management | Namdar Realty Group |
| Owner | Namdar Realty Group |
| No. of stores and services | 99 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,165,000 sq ft (108,200 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in anchors) |
| Public transit access |  Suffolk County Transit: 7 |
| Website | SouthShoreMallRealty.com |
South Shore Mall (formerly known as Westfield South Shore Mall) is a super-regional shopping mall in Bay ShoreinSuffolk County, Long Island, New York, in the United States. The mall is owned by the Namdar Realty Group, and has 1,165,000 square feet (108,232 m2) of gross leasable area.[1]
The mall was opened in 1963 by the R.H. Macy Company, which opened the 3-level, 318,800-square-foot (29,620 m2) Macy's as the original anchor.[2] The open-air, 70-store first phase of the mall was completed by 1967, and originally included stores such as Record Town, Woolworth's, Lerner Shops, Bond's,[3] and JCPenney, which was the first in-line JCPenney location in the New York area at the time.[4] The mall's Loews Theaters location opened around the same time. In the mid 1970s, there was also a section of the mall divided into an area named "Captree Corners", a bazaar-like setup of small stores clustered into a village-like mini-mall area.[5]
The mall was fully enclosed in 1975. In December 1986, the mall's ownership was sold to the Westfield Corporation for $85 million.[6] Shortly after the change in ownership, plans for an expansion were underway. The renovation/expansion was underway by 1996, which gutted the northern end of the center, which was replaced with 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) of new retail area, along with a newly built, three-level (216,300 ft2) Sears, which opened in September 1997. A two-level (120,000 ft2) Lord & Taylor eventually opened in late 1998, replacing the former Woolworth.[7] On March 4, 2012, Macy's shuttered to make way for an entirely new store format for Macy's. It opened on August 14, 2013. In May 2015, it was announced that Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing decision to phase out of its traditional brick-and-mortar format.[8] On June 16, 2016, Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would be reconstructing the previous Sears outpost.[9][10][11][12]
On August 27, 2020, it was announced that upscale specialty department store retailer Lord & Taylor would shutter its traditional brick and mortar format as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]
On January 3, 2023, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield sold this mall along with Westfield TrumbullinTrumbull, Connecticut for a combined deal of $196 million, or roughly $100 million each, to the Namdar Realty Group.[14]
