page_title: South Shore Plaza
hierarchical_section_title: South Shore Plaza
caption_attribution_description: English: Inside South Shore Plaza, Braintree Massachusetts
context_page_description: South Shore Plaza is a shopping mall in Braintree, Massachusetts. It opened as an open-air plaza in 1961; it was enclosed in 1976 and expanded between 1995–96. With 192 tenants and 1,586,446 sq ft of gross leasable area, the mall is the largest in New England in terms of square footage and is the 16th-largest mall in the United States. It is currently owned by Simon Property Group.
  As of 2020, the mall's anchor stores are DSW, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Nordstrom, Sears, Primark, and Target. Previous anchors include Filene's, Filene's Basement, and Jordan Marsh.
context_section_description: South Shore Plaza is a shopping mall in Braintree, Massachusetts. It opened as an open-air plaza in 1961; it was enclosed in 1976 and expanded between 1995–96. With 192 tenants and 1,586,446 sq ft (147,385.7 m²) of gross leasable area, the mall is the largest in New England in terms of square footage and is the 16th-largest mall in the United States. It is currently owned by Simon Property Group.
  As of 2020, the mall's anchor stores are DSW, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Nordstrom, Sears, Primark, and Target. Previous anchors include Filene's, Filene's Basement, and Jordan Marsh.
caption: Interior of mall looking toward the Nordstrom wing (2012)
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