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Square One Mall (formerly the New England Shopping Center) is a 115 store shopping mall located along US Route 1 (Broadway) between Main Street and Essex Street in Saugus, Massachusetts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.simon.com/mall/mall_info.aspx?ID=340 )〕 The mall was a $100 million project undertaken by New England Development Corporation to redevelop the former New England Shopping Center which consisted of Sears, Service Merchandise and the former General Cinemas which had closed in the mid-1980s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://cinematreasures.org/theater/19401/ )〕 The construction of the mall was unique since it incorporated the previously built structure of Sears, signs of this being the difference in building materials between Sears and the rest of the mall. The mall opened for business in Summer August 17, 1994.〔 The mall is credited with bringing sprawl and strip development to Saugus, especially along the Route 1 corridor. Route 1 through the area is a 6 lane highway (3 lanes in each direction) with a speed limit of . Filene's Basement, one of the malls former anchors, filed for bankruptcy protection on May 4, 2009. New York’s Crown Acquisitions, made a bid to buy Filene's Basement including their famous Downtown Crossing location which closed in 2007.〔(Boston Herald, May 5, 2009 | N.Y. firm to nab 17 Filene’s Basement stores for $22M )〕 All Filene's Basement stores closed in December 2011. A model of the planet Uranus is located in the food court, as part of the Boston Museum of Science's scale solar system model. ==Anchor stores== The mall's anchor stores are Macy's, Sears, TJ Maxx, Best Buy, Dick's Sporting Goods, and BD's Furniture. TJ Maxx was originally in a space built for Lechmere,〔http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/08/22/mall_pitches_sporting_goods_store?pg=full〕 but has since moved to a space formerly occupied by Filene's Basement. 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「Square One Mall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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