The other major enclosed retail hub in the borough was situated one block northwest of QUEENS CENTER. QUEENS PLACE, a redo of a circa-1965 Macy's, housed stores such as Target, Best Buy and Macy's Furniture Gallery. When officially dedicated in November 2001, the "vertical power center" encompassed 440,000 leasable square feet.
Photo from Wikipedia / Jim Henderson
An interior view of QUEENS CENTER from 2001. In 2002, a 275 million dollar makeover got underway.
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