Drawing from Levitt & Sons, Incorporated
New Jersey Levittowners needed to travel only a short distance to get to their hometown shopping hub, which served as the defacto downtown for the development. The first master building at LEVITTOWN PLAZA was completed in November 1959. It encompassed approximately 70,000 leasable square feet and housed fifteen stores and services.
LEVITTOWN PLAZA TENANTS 1959:
FOOD FAIR (with Horn & Hardart Retail Foods Department) / Atlas Shoes / Bank of Levittown / Lucas Paints / Drug Centre (with luncheonette) / Eastern Newstand Corporation / Hanscom Bakery / Loft's Candies / Lucas Paints / Martin St. Denis Beauty Salon / Neville Lumber & Supply / Nichols Photo Equipment Specialists / Orange Cleaners / Plaza Barber Shop / US Post Office
The LEVITTOWN PLAZA Food Fair was the chain's 400th store. Promoted as the Showplace of Food Values, it gave Gold Square trading stamps with every purchase. The store encompassed an astonishing (for the time) 35,000 square feet and was one of -if not- the largest Food Fair stores ever built.
Drawing and Graphic from Food Fair Stores, Incorporated
The second master building (in dark gray) was complete by November 1960. It housed an F.W. Woolworth 5 & 10, 28-lane bowling alley and six inline stores. LEVITTOWN PLAZA now covered approximately 155,600 leasable square feet and had a tenant list of twenty-three stores. There was free parking for 1,000 autos.