Boston Area Enclosed Malls for Winter Mall-Walking

I will use this post for updates re this subject.

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Post 1: 10:36 AM 11/16/2014

The search for Malls useable for indoor walking is complicated by the fact that resources such as Yelp.com and Google Maps, do not exclude malls that are such that you have to walk outdoors to get from store to store. "mall walking" natick copley burlington "south shore" - Google Search led to South Natick Mall walking - South Natick, MA - AARP which provided a list, "MALL WALKING AROUND SOUTH NATICK". This list included only 'enclosed malls' that are such that you do not have to walk outdoors to get from store to store.

Plenty of Malls are encouraging Mall-Walkers (sometimes they have special times set aside for mall-walking). I don't know of any malls that are discouraging mall-walking.

Boston-area Enclosed Malls, ranked by square-yards per floor

Number after name = number of stores

South Shore Plaza   180
Braintree, MA
2 floors
Total retail floor area 2,165,000 sq ft
K sq-ft/floor
1082K sq-ft/floor
119K sq-yds/floor
345 yd x 345 yd box equivalent / floor
South Shore Plaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Natick Mall  250
Natick, MA
two-level, T-shaped floor
Total retail floor area 1,860,000 square feet
930K sq-ft/floor
73K sq-yds/floor
270 yd x 270 yd box equivalent / floor
http://www.natickmall.com/directory
Natick Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Liberty Tree Mall  81
Danvers, MA
1 floor 1 bldg
Total retail floor area 821,300 square feet
821K  sq-ft/floor
64K sq-yds/floor
253 yd x 253 yd box equivalent / floor
Liberty Tree Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Burlington Mall 185
Burlington, MA
2 floors, 1 building
Total retail floor area 1,246,675 square feet
623K sq-ft/floor
49K sq-yds/floor
220 yd x 220 yd box equivalent / floor
Burlington Mall (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Northshore Mall  165
Peabody, MA
2 floors 1 bldg
Total retail floor area 1,115,000 square feet
557K sq-ft/floor
43K sq-yds/floor
208 yd x 208 yd box equivalent / floor
Northshore Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mall at Rockingham Park  143
Salem, NH
2 floors, 1 bldg
Total retail floor area 1,020,000 square feet
510K sq-ft/floor
40K sq-yds/floor
199 yd x 199 yd box equivalent / floor
Mall at Rockingham Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Square One Mall  128
Saugus, MA
2 floors 1 bldg
Total retail floor area 1,000,000 sq.ft.
500K K sq-ft/floor
39K sq-yds/floor
197 yd x 197 yd box equivalent / floor
Square One Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Providence Place   160
Providence, RI
3 floors
Total retail floor area 1,400,000 sq ft
467 K sq-ft/floor
36K sq-yds/floor
191 yd x 191 yd box equivalent / floor
http://www.providenceplace.com/directory
Providence Place - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Solomon Pond Mall  115
Marlborough, MA
2 floors, 1 bldg
Total retail floor area  900,000-square-foot
450K sq-ft/floor
35K sq-yds/floor
187 yd x 187 yd box equivalent / floor
Solomon Pond Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pheasant Lane Mall  149
Nashua, NH
2 floors 1bldg
Total retail floor area 870,000 square feet
435K sq-ft/floor
34K sq-yds/floor
184 yd x 184 yd box equivalent / floor
Pheasant Lane Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Emerald Square  133
North Attleborough, MA
3 floors 1 building
Total retail floor area 1,022,000 square feet
341K sq-ft/floor
27K sq-yds/floor
163 yd x 163 yd box equivalent / floor
Emerald Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     "Walking the third floor 3 times in a complete circle straight on   around and going end to end of the mall is 1 Mile and 75 feet ... walking next to the rail or the stores will only vary your walk by 40 to 60 feet".

Copley Place  100
Boston, MA
2 stores 1 bldg
Total retail floor area 413,820 sq ft
207K  sq-ft/floor
16K sq-yds/floor
127 yd x 127 yd box equivalent / floor
Copley Place - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The evidence that walking is good for you is piling up. In the early 1800s, watching people walk used to be America's favorite sport. When it's warm out, when I walk, often people say interesting things to me, & I get a feel for the place where I'm walking. Seems people learn to relax around you if you take long walks in their neighborhood. One reason I've been going on long walks, is I expect such will solve the problem I've experienced during soccer games, featuring painful cramping in the calves & the soles of the feet.

Turns out, that the largest mall in New England, Natick Mall, had grown up right under my nose during the time I had lived just 9 miles away from it, to become the biggest mall in New England in terms of number of stores, & (according to my calculations), the 2nd biggest in the Boston area in terms of square yards per floor.

'...Natick Mall...opened in 1965, ...first enclosed mall in the Boston metropolitan area...demolished and replaced by a larger building in 1994...expanded with...additional retail wing in 2007...1,860,000 sq ft...leasable area...250 retailers...largest mall in New England in...total number of stores. ...with Shopper's World...Natick Mall helps form the...Golden Triangle. The 7 sq mi...area is the second largest shopping district in Massachusetts...mall's 2007 expansion... renovation...addition of a new wing...on the site of the former Wonder Bread/Hostess baking factory...expansion added...100 new stores...With the addition... the Natick Collection became the twenty-third largest mall in the country, fourth largest on the East Coast, and the largest in New England
Following a two-level, generally T-shaped floor plan...it makes use of natural lighting...providing an open atmosphere...curved ceiling was inspired by the American Indian translation of "Natick", meaning "place of rolling hills"...design incorporates the leaves of the birch tree...'

-- Natick Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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