Westfield South Shore

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Westfield South Shore is a super-regional shopping mall in Bay Shore, New York, United States. The mall is owned by the Westfield Group, and has 1,165,000 square feet (108,232 m²) of gross leasable area. The mall originally opened as the South Shore Mall on August 30, 1963.

The mall was opened in 1963 by the R.H. Macy Company, which opened the 3-level, 318,800-square-foot (29,620 m²) Macy's as the original anchor. The open-air, 70-store first phase of the mall was completed by 1967, and originally included stores such as Record Town, Woolworth's, Lerner Shops, Bond's, and JCPenney, which was the first in-line JCPenney location in the New York area at the time. The mall's Loews Theaters location opened around the same time. In the mid 1970's, there was also a section of the mall divided into an area named "Captree Corners", a bazaar-like setup of small stores clustered into a village-like mini-mall area.

The mall was fully enclosed in 1975. In December 1986, the mall's ownership was sold to the Westfield Corporation for $85 million. Shortly after the change in ownership, plans for an expansion were underway. The renovation/expansion was underway by 1996, which gutted the northern end of the center, which was replaced with 40,000 square feet (3,700 m²) of new retail area, along with a newly built, 3-level (216,300 ft²) Sears, which opened in September 1997, and in 2015 closed due to high rent in that space. A 2-level (120,000 ft²) Lord & Taylor eventually opened in late 1998, replacing the former Woolworth. On June 16, 2016 Dick's Sporting Goods announced that it would be opening up two new stores on Long Island--one in Westfield Sunrise and the other one at Westfield South Shore. Dick's opened in April 2017 in the former Sears space.