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Free parking and no sales tax on clothing. There's a reason the big NYC area malls are in Paramus and Elizabeth.
by InitialLastName 3y ago
Free parking and no sales tax on clothing.
There's a reason the big NYC area malls are in Paramus and Elizabeth.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoSo they're not paying sales tax?
- InitialLastName 3y agoSorry if that wasn't clear: NJ doesn't have a sales tax on clothing. NY does. Paramus and Elizabeth are where the 4-ish (the ones in Paramus blend together) giant malls outside of NYC are.
- evanelias 3y agoNY/NYC only charges sales tax on clothing over $110 per item. In addition to the giant malls you mentioned, there's American Dream in East Rutherford. Parking isn't free there though. And all its clothing stores are closed on Sundays. (Ditto for the Paramus malls re: Sunday.)
- mike50 3y agoHigh land costs pushed these kinds of land uses further and further from Manhattan. There are the same huge malls in Westchester and Nassau county.
- lowkey_ 3y ago> There's a reason the big NYC area malls are in Paramus and Elizabeth. I think the reason is that malls are just out-of-fashion. If we consider the SoHo area to be the equivalent of a mall, or the North Williamsburg/Greenpoint area to be a mall, I'd bet they dwarf the Paramus & Elizabeth malls in GMV sold and foot traffic.
- busterarm 3y agoSoHo retail has been collapsing for more than a decade. Storefront availability was nearly 25% in 2017.
- lowkey_ 3y agoAt least according to this article in 2017 [1], it looks like that was because of SoHo's soaring rents (because there's tons of great shopping which brings a lot of people there). It was also common across the country at the time. It's apparently back and better than ever though [2]. And anecdotally, everyone I know shops much more in SoHo than they did a decade ago, even if the center has shifted to Williamsburg/Greenpoint and more thrifting / vintage stores. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/nyregion/soho-empty-storefronts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/nyregion/soho-empty-store... [2] https://equicapmag.com/real-estate/soho-retail-rebounds/#:~:text=By%20the%20end%20of%202020,at%20JLL%20in%20New%20York https://equicapmag.com/real-estate/soho-retail-rebounds/#:~:....