Westgate Mall, Brockton, MA

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 and is still the owner to this day. On January 4, 2017 Macy’s announced that they would be closing their Westgate Mall location. In 2019 the former Macy’s space was taken over by a Burlington and other smaller stores as well.

Many people seem to forgotten the definition of a dead mall and the only reason I bringing this up is because many people think Westgate is dead or dying or is struggling. The definition of a dead mall is a mall with a high vacancy rate or low foot traffic and Westgate does not fit any of those symptoms so simply can’t call it a dead mall. Many people think just because a mall has a lot of mom and pop stores like Westgate is dead. I have to disagree. The mall is also getting a Cinnabon so I cannot hate on it personally.

Here are my photos of Westgate Mall from the summer of 2018 and 2020.

2018

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