Westfield Garden State Plaza is an upscale shopping mall in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, owned and managed by the Westfield Group and located at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 17 near the Garden State Parkway. With 2,132,112 sq ft (198,079.7 m2) of leasable space, it is the largest mall in New Jersey, the third-largest mall in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and one of the highest revenue producing malls in the United States. Its department store anchors are J.C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. It was the first large scale shopping mall in New Jersey.
Westfield Garden State Plaza ranks among the largest shopping malls in the United States, having been ranked 14th largest in the United States. Westfield Garden State Plaza is the largest mall in the Westfield Group's global portfolio in terms of leasable area. This is significant given that Westfield Group is the largest retail property group globally.
The mall had sales of $578 per square foot in 2005, about 50% above the national average, according to the Directory of Major Malls. Westfield Garden State Plaza is one of the most profitable malls in the country.
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