Retrofit Atlas

Malls · New Jersey

Echelon Mall

From the authors' mapRedevelopedReinhabitedPartly retrofittedVoorhees, NJ

Opened 1970. Closed 2024. Partial Redeveloped · Reinhabited in 2011.

Status nowPartly retrofittedauthors' map reported
What it becamehousing, office, civic, retailextracted, unreviewed reported
Site size200 acresextracted, unreviewed
documented
nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of farmland bought by flying enthusiasts Rogers and Jeannette Smith in 1939.

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Last sale$13.4M · 2015public reporting
Retrofit year2011authors' map reported
Walkability18.2 of 20 · 15-minute 4 of 6EPA, OpenStreetMap
Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD
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Echelon Mall
Sign for Voorhees Town Center with listed amenities. · verified by a vision model. Photo: Tinton5, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Site profile23 elements · what this retrofit is built with · tap a chip for the evidence

Former anchors
Boscov'sThis site: Boscov's wikipedia · all sites with this
JCPenneyThis site: JCPenney wikipedia · all sites with this
Macy'sThis site: Macy's wikipedia · all sites with this
SearsThis site: Sears wikipedia · all sites with this
Strawbridge'sThis site: Strawbridge's wikipedia · all sites with this
Finance and pipeline
On FacebookThis site: …https://www.twitter.com/voorheestownctr overture · all sites with this
On TwitterThis site: …https://www.twitter.com/voorheestownctr overture · all sites with this
Website aliveThis site: …http://voorheestowncenter.com overture / http check · all sites with this
Place
200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 kmThis site: 339 units in 3 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with this
County typical rent $2,000+This site: $2,013/mo zillow · all sites with this
High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)This site: 0.82 cdc-svi · all sites with this
Renter-majority tractThis site: 80% census-acs · all sites with this
Tract house prices doubled in 10 yearsThis site: +108% fhfa · all sites with this
Tract population up 25%+ since 2013This site: +25% census-acs · all sites with this
Walkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)This site: …index 18.2 epa-walkability · all sites with this
Scale
60+ acre siteThis site: 200 acres extraction · all sites with this
Strategy
RedevelopedThis site: Partial reinhabitation, civic Partial redevelopment, mixed use record · all sites with this
ReinhabitedThis site: Partial reinhabitation, civic Partial redevelopment, mixed use record · all sites with this
New use
Civic and governmentThis site: Partial reinhabitation, civic Partial redevelopment, mixed use Condos and new office co extraction · all sites with this
HousingThis site: …al reinhabitation, civic Partial redevelopment, mixed use Condos and new office complexes were also built around the same ti extraction · all sites with this
Mixed useThis site: Partial reinhabitation, civic Partial redevelopment, mixed use Condos and new office complexes were also built around the extraction · all sites with this
OfficeThis site: …on, civic Partial redevelopment, mixed use Condos and new office complexes were also built around the same time. extraction · all sites with this
Retail (continued)This site: …new_use field extraction · all sites with this

All elements and lists · Trends

From the authors' map

NJ, Voorhees: Echelon Mall/Voorhees Town Center, 2011
• Partial reinhabitation, civic
• Partial redevelopment, mixed use
NJ, Voorhees: Echelon Mall/Voorhees Town Center, 2010
• Partial reinhabitation: civic
• Partial redevelopment: mixed use residential, street grid

Now

StatusPartly retrofittedauthors' map reported
StrategyPartial Redeveloped · Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
New useshousing, office, civic, retailextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there nowPartial reinhabitation, civic Partial redevelopment, mixed useauthors' map reported
Retrofit year2011authors' map reported
RedeveloperPREITextracted, unreviewed reported

Planning

Planning notesCondos and new office complexes were also built around the same time.extracted, unreviewed reported

Deals and debt

DateEventPricePartiesSource
2015Sold$13.4M closedNamdar Realty Group ← PREITWikipedia

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Echelon Mall” and “Voorhees” (59 hits, first 59 sampled, 8 other filers such as tenants left out). No commercial-mortgage trust names this mall in the sample, which does not rule out a securitised loan. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

KindFilerFilingsDatesForms
Public owner (strong)PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST442003-03-06 to 2009-03-028-K 28, 10-K 7, 10-Q 6, 8-K/A 3
Public owner (strong)ROUSE COMPANY72001-03-30 to 2003-08-1410-K 6, 10-Q 1

As reported by the owner

Property tables from the owner's annual report (Form 10-K, Item 2) on EDGAR, one row per filing year. GLA, occupancy and anchors are the filer's own figures at that year end; “leased” counts signed leases, “occupied” counts open stores; ownership is the filer's share. Matched by name and place, unreviewed; the verbatim table row is in sec_facts.csv.

Year endFilerName in filingGLA sq ftOccupancyYearsShareSales psfAnchors listed
2009Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust 10-K, 2010-03-16Voorhees Town Center Voorhees, NJ
match: exact		677,397
in-line 280,614		63.8% occupiedbuilt 1970 / renovated 2007100.0%Boscov’s Macy’s The Star Group

Site context

FEMA flood zoneno NFHL polygon at point (unmapped or outside coverage)FEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m10: 4 ECHELON PLAZA; ECHELON MALL; FOSTER SQUARE AT VOORHEES TOWN CENTER; GOODYEAR AUTO SERVICE CENTER; JUPITER PAINTING CONTRACTING CO INC PATCO #13EPA FRS
Census tract 340076075076,883 people, 6,173 per sq mi; median household income $63,633; median gross rent $1,655; 80% renters; 0.2% vacant units; 6.4% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)index 18.2 of 20; 219 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 342 m; land-use mix 0.8; 161,371 jobs within 45 min by car, 44,137 by transit; 54% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)4 of 6 daily needs: 0 grocers, 2 schools, 17 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 3 civic, 5 food and drink; 7 cycleway segments, 71 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity ZonenoHUD
Housing permits, Camden County (NJ), 2024509 units in 5+ unit buildings, 27 in 2–4, 434 single-family; 2023: 621 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)overall percentile 0.82; socioeconomic 0.77; housing and transport 0.86; 22% below 150% of poverty; 15% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby2 within 10 km, 15 within 25 km: Echelon Airfield (3.5 km); Three Executive Campus (9.7 km)computed
Overture Mapsplace Voorhees Town Center (shopping_mall, confidence 0.99, from Foursquare, Overture, Overture-signals); building footprint 16,549 m², 7.963428020477295 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and socialvoorheestowncenter.com (alive) · social: facebook, twitterOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views80,587 since 2015; 6,415 in the last 12 months (+0% vs the prior 12); peak 2017-01 with 1,162Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023population +25% (5,495 → 6,883); median income +32% ($48,045 → $63,633); renters 74% → 80%; median home value +40% ($203,100 → $283,900)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)relatively low overall (score 32.5); expected annual loss $1.1M; high: winter weather; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km3 LIHTC properties, 339 units: Echelon Towers (267 units); The Flicker Residence (36 units); The Flicker Residence #629 (36 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)23,917 jobs in 1,480 establishments; average annual pay $41,986; employment location quotient 1.17; employment +0.5% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 20223,694 jobs; 155 in retail trade, 162 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 34007607507)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 43th income percentile as adults; 0.9% incarcerated at the 2010 count (313 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; 9% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 14.8%; median family income $69,063; 293 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
SchoolsEastern Camden County Regional School District (09-12); 4 public schools within 1 mile: Cherry Hill Regional School; Horace Mann Elementary School; Somerdale Park School; Osage SchoolNCES EDGE
Elevation71 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025298 county-logged events: 208 thunderstorm wind, 41 flash flood, 30 hail, 9 flood; $341,500 property damage reported; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 08043, 2026-09median list price $490,750 (-7.8% on the year); 59 active listings; median 45 days on market; 18% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 20231,600 establishments (-8%); 24,358 jobs (+3%)Census CBP
Housing market in the countytypical home value $353,585 (+4% 1 yr, +42% 5 yr); typical rent $2,013/mo (+4% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025339 (2000 = 100); +5.3% 1 yr, +80% 5 yr, +108% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)12,981 vehicles a day on CAMDEN COUNTY 670 (minor arterial, 2 lanes); 15 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

Similar sites

  • Former Sears at Moorestown Mall, Moorestown, NJ · Big boxes · opened 1971; closed 2020; same strategy: reinhabit
  • Echelon Airfield, Voorhees Township, NJ · Other · similar size (200 acres); same strategy: redevelop; also in NJ
  • Granite Run Mall, Middletown, PA · Malls · opened 1974; same strategy: redevelop; 37 km away
  • DeSoto Square Mall, South Bradenton, FL · Malls · opened 1973; closed 2021; same strategy: redevelop, reinhabit

Elsewhere on the web

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

Pages with photos

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Multifamily screen

  • retrofit already built
  • 200 acres
  • county grew 3.3% 2018–23
  • 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

Now called / also known asVoorhees Town Center
Opened1970Wikidata
Closed2024extracted, unreviewed
documented
By March 2026, the food court and all interior retail spaces in the former Echelon Mall remained closed indefinitely following a fire that occurred on April 19, 2024.

en.wikipedia.org

Acres200extracted, unreviewed
documented
nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of farmland bought by flying enthusiasts Rogers and Jeannette Smith in 1939.

en.wikipedia.org

Original developerEchelon Mall, Inc., a subsidiary of The Rouse Companyextracted, unreviewed
documented
Developed by Echelon Mall, Inc., a subsidiary of The Rouse Company, at the cost of $80 million, the mall opened in 1970 as part of a vision for 'a new kind of downtown' located in suburbia.

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AnchorsMacy's, JCPenney, Sears, Boscov's, Strawbridge's
CountyCamden County
Census division2 · Mid-Atlantic

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Background

Voorhees Town Center is a defunct regional mall and a residential area located in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. It opened in 1970 and named after Echelon Airfield which was located where the mall stands today. The Echelon Mall was renamed Voorhees Town Center in 2007. Boscov's is currently the only anchor of the mall. By March 2026, the food court and all interior retail spaces in the former Echelon Mall remained closed indefinetely following a fire that occurred on April 19, 2024.

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

Timeline

  1. 1939 Site purchased as farmland for airfield
  2. 1944 Echelon Airfield incorporated
  3. 1969 Groundbreaking for Echelon Mall
  4. 1970 Opened (Wikidata)
  5. 1970 Mall opened
  6. 1985 Food court opened
  7. 1992 Exhilarama opened
  8. 1996 Exhilarama closed
  9. 2007 Groundbreaking for redevelopment
  10. 2008 Grand opening of Voorhees Town Center
  11. 2011 Retrofit: redevelop, reinhabit
  12. 2015 Sale to Namdar Realty Group

Sources

  • Wikipedia · supports: acres, original developer, year closed
    13 quoted sentences
    By March 2026, the food court and all interior retail spaces in the former Echelon Mall remained closed indefinitely following a fire that occurred on April 19, 2024.
    nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of farmland bought by flying enthusiasts Rogers and Jeannette Smith in 1939.
    Developed by Echelon Mall, Inc., a subsidiary of The Rouse Company, at the cost of $80 million, the mall opened in 1970 as part of a vision for 'a new kind of downtown' located in suburbia.
    The site on which the Echelon Mall was built began as an airfield; nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of farmland bought by flying enthusiasts Rogers and Jeannette Smith in 1939.
  • Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

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