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The Natick Mall, named the Natick Collection from February 2007 to July 2011, is an upscale shopping mall owned by General Growth Properties. It is located between Routes 9 and 30 in Natick, Massachusetts and is adjacent to Shoppers' World in Framingham, Massachusetts. The original facility opened in 1965, becoming the first enclosed mall in the Boston metropolitan area. It was demolished and replaced by a larger building in 1994, and was significantly expanded with the completion of an additional retail wing in 2007. With of leasable area and 250 retailers, it is the largest mall in New England in terms of total number of stores. The Natick Mall is anchored by Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor, Sears, and Macy's. In 2017, a Wegmans supermarket will open as the mall's sixth anchor store, replacing JCPenney which closed in 2015.〔https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/08/04/wegmans-open-fifth-mass-location-natick-mall/tIqDmRJX3PVpj1NQFYB2mJ/story.html〕 Along with Shopper's World, the Natick Mall helps form the heart of the regional shopping district known as the Golden Triangle. The area is the second largest shopping district in Massachusetts outside of Downtown Crossing in the Financial District area of Boston. ==History== Construction of the original Natick Mall began in 1964, connecting two stand-alone locations of Sears and Filene's with a one-story facility of twenty-five stores. The project would become the first enclosed mall in the Boston metropolitan area and among the first built east of the Mississippi River. It opened on April 27, 1965 with two smaller anchors on the north end of the mall, Woolworth's and Boston Baby, and a large fountain/entertainment area. A vacancy left by the departed Boston Baby in the 1980s was redeveloped into an additional retail wing and a newly constructed food court. By the 1990s, the mall had become undersized and remained virtually unchanged since its opening. Shoppers began commuting to other facilities in the region; in 1992, the Homart Development Company purchased the Natick Mall and the adjacent Shopper's World in Framingham. Initial plans called for the Natick Mall to become a power center and Shopper's World an enclosed facility; however, after resistance from the town of Framingham, the plans were reversed and developed on the opposite properties. The Natick Mall was demolished and replaced by a two-story building; it opened on October 12, 1994 with the remodeled Filene's, a rebuilt Sears, a relocated Jordan Marsh, and the addition of a Lord & Taylor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=From the Natick Mall (1966) to the Natick Mall (1994), Natick (2006), Natick Mall (2007), and Natick Collection (2007) )〕 In late 2006, the mall began an upscale renovation and expansion. Its image was also re-branded, first by attempting to change its name to simply Natick; after resistance from the town, the mall was instead renamed the Natick Collection.〔 The first phase saw the renovation of the existing facility and the addition of a new wing on the property's north-east end, on the site of the former Wonder Bread/Hostess baking factory. The expansion added two new anchors, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus, and nearly 100 new stores to the mall. This phase was opened to the public on September 7, 2007, though some stores planned to open through the winter and following spring. Construction of a Crate & Barrel, a relocated California Pizza Kitchen, and an American Girl Boutique and Bistro began in April 2008, with an original completion time frame of early spring 2009. The southwest mall entrance was moved approximately , placing it between Crate & Barrel and the California Pizza Kitchen, across from the northwest wing housing JCPenney. The new Crate & Barrel facility replaced the original store with a new one-level store (with two-story facade) that occupies parts of the original location. In October 2009, the second phase of the expansion, ''The Promenade at Natick Collection'', opened on the south-western section of the mall along Route 9; a Cheesecake Factory opened shortly after. The third phase, the construction of the condominiums, which originally had a projected completion of summer 2008, finished construction during spring 2009. The final phase is the proposed addition of a ten to twelve story luxury hotel adjacent to the new wing and across from JCPenney. While initial site work has been completed, the financial difficulties of mall parent General Growth Properties has put the final phase's construction into doubt. With the addition and the new eight-story parking facility, the Natick Collection became the twenty-third largest mall in the country, fourth largest on the East Coast, and the largest in New England. As with the rest of the United States, the late-2000s recession cast a serious pall over the mall expansion. By December 2008, condominium sales in Nouvelle at Natick were behind projections, with only 34 of the 215 units sold or under contract. Real estate agents in the Metrowest area have stated that the prices of the units, ranging from $379,900 to over $1 million, combined with the timing of the opening of the facility have seriously hampered sales. Several real estate agencies have stated that General Growth, or its successor pending its bankruptcy case, will need to lower its prices for the units to attract consumers in tight economic times. Additionally, home sales in the Natick and Framingham area are traditionally oriented towards single family homes which are also working against the residences. On September 10, 2009, ''The Boston Globe'' reported that Nouvelle at Natick would auction off 42 of the 215 units, with bids starting as low as $160,000. In July 2011, General Growth Properties reverted to the original name, "Natick Mall," citing local tradition as the reason for the change.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Natick Mall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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