Plaza del Norte

Plaza del Norte is a 698,581 sq ft (64,900.3 m2)[1] shopping center located in Hatillo, Puerto Rico currently owned and managed by DDR Corp. It is the largest shopping center in northwestern Puerto Rico, with over 130 stores and fast food restaurants.

Plaza del Norte
LocationHatillo, Puerto Rico
Coordinates18°28′48″N 66°46′15″W
Address506 Truncado St. Suite 110
Opening date1992
ManagementDDR Corp.
OwnerDDR Corp.
No. of stores and services130+
No. of anchor tenants12
Total retail floor area698,581 sq ft (64,900.3 m2)
No. of floors2 (Food Court and Sears only)
Websiteddr.com/properties/20085

History
An area of Plaza del Norte in 2011
Food court at Plaza del norte in 2011

Plaza del Norte opened its doors in 1992. In 2005 the mall was acquired by DDR Corp.

During the mid to late 2000s, the mall started to lose many of its tenants. The Cinevista Theatre and Pueblo Supermarkets were closed after their respective parent companies went bankrupt. Party City and Pitusa, which, along with Pueblo, occupied the strip mall area, also left . This led to that part of the mall becoming nearly fully vacant, as the smaller stores and Casa Febus relocated to the enclosed mall. The opening and later expansion of the Puerto Rico Premium Outlets in Barceloneta, led to many stores to open in this outlet mall than in Plaza del Norte. In the JCPenney wing, several formerly small stores were combined into a Circuit City in 2008, but the chain's bankruptcy led to the store being closed a year later. The space was temporarily used by Casa Febus, until it moved to a new building outside the mall.

In 2011, DDR Corp. announced a significant interior and exterior renovation of the mall, including a 10,000-square-foot expansion and renovation of the existing J.C. Penney Co. store, which now occupies part of the JCPenney wing, including the former Circuit City. The project included the addition of a Rooms To Go, the combination of three small retail-space units to accommodate a PetSmart, several other new stores and outparcels, a new Caribbean Cinemas movie theater and new carts and kiosks through the entire mall. The project was completed in mid-2013.[2][3] In early October 2015, Wal-Mart left the mall for a Supercenter.

In November 2019 an Econo supermarket opened a store in Plaza del Norte.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-04. Retrieved 2014-07-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Santiago, Jaime. "Puerto Rico: A retailer's paradise". Caribbean Business. Caribbean Business. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  3. "DDR invertirá $50 millones en modernizar cuatro centros comerciales". October 18, 2011.
  4. "Econo estrena nuevo concepto en Hatillo". El Nuevo Dia. November 20, 2019.
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