Melvin Simon & Associates built Jefferson Valley Mall in 1983 at the intersection of Lee Boulevard and US Route 6 in Yorktown Heights, less than a quarter mile from the Taconic State Parkway’s 100,000-cars-a-day traffic count. Washington Prime Group took over ownership in February 2016 and still manages the property despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2021, a restructuring the mall continued operating through without disruption to tenants.
Macy’s anchors the mall after a sequence of department-store turnovers: the original Read’s became Jordan Marsh, then Abraham & Straus, before converting to Macy’s, while Sears closed in 2018 after Sears Holdings had already spun the space into Seritage Growth Properties.
H&M, Sephora, DICK’S Sporting Goods and Bath & Body Works carry the inline mix, alongside more than 50 total tenants that the mall’s own marketing now frames around community-focused programming, more than ten annual events including a spring car show and a fall festival, rather than around anchor-driven department store shopping.
The property sits near the Jefferson Valley Medical Professional Center and serves Yorktown, Peekskill, Mahopac and Somers, a suburban Westchester catchment where the mall’s positioning has shifted toward the kind of local-event programming that keeps a Washington Prime Group-owned asset relevant without a full-scale redevelopment.
