Enfield Square Mall
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Enfield Square Mall is a shopping mall in Enfield, Connecticut. It is off of I-91 surrounded by other retail establishments.
[edit] History
Built as the Enfield Square Mall, it housed local department stores Steigers, of Springfield, MA and G. Fox of Hartford in addition to a JC Penney. The G. Fox later became a Filenes (now Macy's) and a few years after Steigers shuttered, Sears moved in. In 2001, JC Penney closed, but was reopened as Filene's Home and Men's store in 2002. It, too, became Macy's after Federated Department Stores buy out of May. Also in 2002, Target opened a store in the mall. A Hoyts movie theater was built in 1998. However, in 2003 when Hoyts began selling off its assets in the US, this theater was sold to Showcase Cinemas.
[edit] Naming Controversy
As originally built, the mall was called Enfield Square. However, it was bought out by The Westfield Group, an Australian company owning malls across the world. They rebranded the mall Westfield Shoppingtown Enfield. However, exterior signs only called it Westfield Shoppingtown. This created confusion for those unfamiliar with the area and Westfield Group in particular. No malls in Massachusetts or northern Connecticut were owned by Westfield, so few thought of it as a brand. Many mistook it as related to nearby Westfield, Massachusetts.
In 2006, however, upon the sale of the mall, its name reverted to Enfield Square Mall.
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