Malls · Connecticut

Chapel Square Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedPartly retrofittedNew Haven, CT

Opened 1967. Partial Reinhabited in 2003.

Status nowPartly retrofittedauthors' map reported

What it becamehousing, retailextracted, unreviewed reported

Site size165,000 sq ft GLAextracted, unreviewed reported

Retrofit year2003authors' map reported

Rail within 800 mYesOpenStreetMap, HUD

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Former anchors

Macy's

This site: Macy's wikipedia · all sites with this

Place

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 km

This site: 591 units in 4 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with this

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 61,700 on 724 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Bike network nearby

This site: 174 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 14 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

Interstate or freeway within 600 m

This site: 724 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

National Register place within 500 m

This site: Cook, John, House; New Haven City Hall nps-nrhp · all sites with this

Rail within 800 m

This site: State Street openstreetmap · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 98% census-acs · all sites with this

Strategy

Reinhabited

This site: Partial reinhabitation: residential record · all sites with this

New use

Housing

This site: Partial reinhabitation: residential the mall was converted into a luxury apartment complex in 2 extraction · all sites with this

Retail (continued)

This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

CT, New Haven: Chapel Square Mall, 2003
• Partial reinhabitation: residential

Now

Status	Partly retrofittedauthors' map reported
Strategy	Partial Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
New uses	housing, retailextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there now	Partial reinhabitation: residentialauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	2003authors' map reported
Redeveloper	David Nyberg and Ronald Caplanextracted, unreviewed reported

Planning

Planning notes	the mall was converted into a luxury apartment complex in 2003–2004 with part of the roof removed to create an interior courtyard.extracted, unreviewed reported

Site context

Transit within 800 m	State Street (rail); 19 bus stops within 400 mOpenStreetMap
Motorway junctions within 2 km	1, 2, 3, 4OpenStreetMap
FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	29: ALEXION PHARMACEUTICALS INC; ALEXION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.; AMERICAN LINEN SUPPLY CO; AMTRAK; BC NINTH SQUARE LLCEPA FRS
Census tract 09170140102	2,704 people, 13,823 per sq mi; median household income $70,104; median gross rent $1,984; 98% renters; 16.9% vacant units; 7.4% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 14 grocers, 10 schools, 53 parks or playgrounds, 9 health, 34 civic, 161 food and drink; 174 cycleway segments, 228 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
National Register places within 500 m	7: Cook, John, House; New Haven City Hall; Pinto, William, House; Imperial Granum--Joseph Parker BuildingsNPS
Housing permits, South Central Connecticut Plan (CT), 2024	722 units in 5+ unit buildings, 101 in 2–4, 191 single-family; 2023: 1,140 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.56; socioeconomic 0.66; housing and transport 0.78; 36% below 150% of poverty; 36% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	1 within 10 km, 6 within 25 km: New Haven Galleria (1.2 km)computed
Overture Maps	no place match; building footprint 1,509 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Attention: Wikipedia page views	27,897 since 2015; 2,373 in the last 12 months (-12% vs the prior 12); peak 2019-10 with 348Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively low overall (score 34.0); expected annual loss $854,477; community resilience relatively highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	4 LIHTC properties, 591 units: Residences At Ninth Square (335 units); Central Ymca (148 units); Ninth Square Block 236 (75 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	25,908 jobs in 1,905 establishments; average annual pay $45,481; employment location quotient 0.94; employment -1.3% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 33th income percentile as adults; 1.9% incarcerated at the 2010 count (133 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 15.7%; median family income $122,188; 178 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	New Haven School District (PK-12); 12 public schools within 1 mile: Amistad Academy; Booker T. Washington Academy; New Haven Academy; Hill Regional Career High SchoolNCES EDGE
Elevation	22 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Homes for sale in ZIP 06510, 2026-09	median list price $485,000 (+16.7% on the year); 6 active listings; median 30 days on market; 27% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	1,860 establishments; 33,669 jobsCensus CBP
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	61,700 vehicles a day on 724 (freeway or expressway, 8 lanes); 3,916 trucks; 38 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Chapel Square Mall on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Pages with photos

Chapel Square Mall New Haven CT | Interior view showing Mall… | Flickr flickr.com
Chapel Square Mall – Between Two Rocks betweentworocks.com
Chapel Square Mall - New Haven, Connecticut | Renter Insights renterinsights.com
The Chapel Square Mall, New Haven Connecticut | Mister Harrys misterharrys.com
Chapel Square Mall , The Square Chapel Arts Centre – YAPB havytab.com

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
median rent $1,463
housing in the record

Inputs: record fields (size, status) and county Census ACS 2018–2023 figures (growth, rent). How the points work. Not a recommendation.

History and original facts

Opened	1967Wikidata
Gross leasable area	165,000 sq ftextracted, unreviewed documented 165,000 square feet en.wikipedia.org
Architect	Lathrop Douglas
Anchors	Macy's, Edw. Malley Co.
County	South Central Connecticut Planning Region
Census division	1 · New England

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Background

The Chapel Square Mall was a shopping mall in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. It was one of the first fully enclosed air-conditioned downtown malls in the United States; it has now been converted into apartments.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

1967 Opened (Wikidata)
1984 Sold to The Rouse Company
2002 Sold to William, Jackson, Ewing, Inc.
2003 Retrofit: reinhabit
2003 Converted into luxury apartment complex

Sources

Wikipedia · supports: gla sqft
4 quoted sentences
165,000 square feet
In 1984, after Malley's closed, Chapel Square Mall and the office tower were sold to Baltimore-based The Rouse Company to revitalize the mall.
In April 2002, the city of New Haven sold the mall and redevelopment rights to William, Jackson, Ewing, Inc. of Baltimore, known for successful urban retail and mixed-use projects such as Grand Central Terminal in New York City and Liberty Place Shops in Philadelphia.
the mall was converted into a luxury apartment complex in 2003–2004 with part of the roof removed to create an interior courtyard.
Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Chapel Square Mall, New Haven, CT." Record m-59f54a644e, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ct/new-haven-chapel-square-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_newhavenchapelsquaremall,
  title = {Chapel Square Mall, New Haven, CT},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ct/new-haven-chapel-square-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-59f54a644e, release 2026.10.20, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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