Bergen Town Center is an open-air lifestyle and power center on Route 4 in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, serving as the third major retail development in the Paramus corridor alongside Westfield Garden State Plaza and Paramus Park. Bloomingdale’s Outlet anchors the fashion department store tier, alongside Target and Marshalls in a configuration that covers the range from outlet department store through off-price value retail within a single development. Home Depot anchors the large-format home improvement component.
The specialty retail mix includes H and M, Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, J.Crew, Tommy Hilfiger, Chico’s, Columbia Sportswear, Nike, and Torrid. The open-air format, with parking-accessible anchor adjacency, suits the home improvement and bulk shopping occasion alongside the lifestyle fashion trip.
Bergen County’s blue-law environment, which restricts most non-essential retail on Sundays, concentrates weekday and Saturday shopping traffic across all three Paramus retail properties. The Route 4 location places Bergen Town Center within the primary Paramus retail corridor, accessible from I-80, Route 17, and the Garden State Parkway, enabling the Bergen County consumer to complete multiple retail missions in a single Paramus visit.
Within the Paramus retail cluster, Bergen Town Center occupies the open-air lifestyle and home improvement positioning that neither Garden State Plaza’s enclosed comparison-shopping format nor Paramus Park’s single-anchor mid-market format addresses. The Bloomingdale’s Outlet anchor combined with the Home Depot home improvement component creates a mixed-occasion destination for the fashion and home improvement consumer, serving a structurally different shopping trip from the enclosed regional mall visit.
