Mall Tea

Westgate Mall is the oldest mall in the entire state in Massachusetts and is located in Brockton which is 20 miles south of Boston. Westgate Mall opened on February 24, 1963 as Westgate Shopper’s Park with 356,00 square feet of shopping. The mall was expanded in 1984 and 85 nearly doubling the mall’s size to 600,000. The expansion is anchored by a Sears. In 1999 New England Development purchased Westgate for $17 Million to renovate Westgate because the mall was dying due to bigger malls such as South Shore Plaza and Silver City Galleria. Between 2000 and 2003 Westgate Mall was renovated and New England Development  was successful turning the mall around and Westgate reestablished itself a a neighborhood mall and is still successful to this day. In 2004 New England Development sold the mall to Gregory Greenfield & Associates. The mall was sold again in 2007 to Babcock & Brown. Bank of America foreclosed the mall in 2009 and in 2010 New England Development bought the mall again a

Walpole Mall is a strange sad little mall just south of Boston that if you drove by you would just think it is a busy plaza but you would be extremely wrong. Since the interior of the mall is so small and forgotten the mall doesn’t have much written history but here is what I know. Walpole Mall opened in the 70’s with a Bradlee’s and is a dumbell type of mall which is pretty common in New England. In 1997 the mall was given a facelift which is not what it looks like now but in this renovation they added many big box stores. In 1998 the mall was given one of New England first Old Navy’s which is really funny that it was here because now they are in what feels like every mall around here. Around the recession the mall was given another renovation which was pointless because since the recession this place has lost all of the national brands on the inside and has even been de-malled a all the way from Kohl’s to the former Old Country Buffet. The Walpole Mall had many different stores such