Shoppingtown Mall

Shoppingtown Mall is a regional shopping mall in Dewitt, New York. It opened as an open-air shopping center in 1954, and was converted to an enclosed mall in 1975., it has approximately 100 stores, with Sears serving as the only anchor store. It has a food court and a fourteen-screen Regal Cinemas movie theater., Shoppingtown Mall is owned and managed by Moonbeam Capital Investments LLC.HistoryShoppingtown opened in 1954 as one of Syracuse's first suburban open-air shopping centers. Early tenants included Dey Brothers department store, The Addis Company (later merged into Addis and Dey's), Woolworth, W.T. Grant, and a Kallet movie theater. A Grand Union supermarket was added on the eastern end.Television station WNYS-TV opened its first studios in the basement of Shoppingtown when it began broadcasting in 1962. The studio caught fire in April 1967. The call letters were changed to WIXT-TV in 1978, and the station moved from Shoppingtown to new studios on nearby Bridge Street in East Syracuse in 1985.After expanding several times in the 1960s, Shoppingtown was converted to an enclosed shopping mall in 1975, and was substantially remodeled in 1991. The mall was owned by Macerich, which acquired it from Wilmorite Properties in 2005, but was sold in 2011 to Macerich. Macerich managed the mall until 2012, when the new owners hired Jones Lang LaSalle to manage the mall. In 2014, MoonBeam Capital Investments bought the mall for 13.6 million.