Cherry Hill Mall travel guide

Cherry Hill Mall, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, was the first large indoor shopping center east of the Mississippi River in the United States, attracting busloads of visitors soon after its opening in October 1961. (The Southdale Shopping Center in Edina, Minnesota, was the very first enclosed mall in the U.S., beating Cherry Hill to the honor by five years.) The current anchors of the mall are JC Penney, Macy's, and Nordstrom (opening 2009). The mall has a gross leasable area of placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey. The Cherry Hill Mall is the only upscale mall in the South Jersey region and located in the middle of The District.
The Mall is widely held to be the source of the 1961 renaming of what had been called Delaware Township to its current name of Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey. In fact, the town was named Cherry Hill because the town wanted its own ZIP Code, and the United States Postal Service suggested this name because of its historical ties. Also, a local developer, Eugene Mori, had a vested interest in the name identifying with his properties, which had taken the name Cherry Hill to identify that they were built on or near the old Cherry Hill farm, on a hill at the intersection of what is now Route 38 and Haddonfield Road. (...) more....

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