City Center is a 362,000-square-foot retail and entertainment complex on Main Street in downtown White Plains, New York. Target, Burlington, a supermarket, and a movie theater share the building.
It opened in 2003 on the site of the downtown Macy's, which had moved out to the Galleria years before.
It opened in stages, and almost none of the retailers that filled it then are still there. The names on the second level now sell groceries and off-price clothing.
The center was nearly 92 percent occupied when it went on the market, and most of what a shopper walks past on the second level arrived after 2010. The buyer of the property sold in June hasn't been identified.
City Center opened with Target underground
Crews started tearing down the old Macy's on Main Street on July 17, 2001.
The store opened in 1949, and it had stood empty for years by then, since Macy's moved its White Plains business up to the Galleria in the mid-1990s.
City Center at White Plains is the retail and entertainment complex that took the block, at Main Street and Mamaroneck Avenue in downtown White Plains, New York.
It opened in stages through 2003 and still operates.
Target came first, in October 2003, and it went into the ground.
The 153,000-square-foot store sat below grade, the chain's first below-ground location, and it was 25,000 square feet larger than the Palisades Center store at the time.
Circuit City opened on October 16 in about 38,000 square feet. Barnes & Noble was announced at roughly 27,000 square feet for a winter opening.
Everything else stacked upward from there. Shops filled the street and intermediate levels, and the entertainment floor sat on top.
That floor opened late and unfinished. The White Plains Performing Arts Center held its first performance on November 8, 2003, in a 410-seat house.
The night before, crews were still putting in carpet, seating, stage lighting, and sound equipment. The cinema beside it slipped further.
National Amusements had been aiming at the fall and moved its opening to December 12, a 15-screen Cinema de Lux with about 3,500 seats.
The two venues shared the top of the building for the next 20 years.
A supermarket took the Filene's Basement space
Two big tenants left within months of each other.
Filene's Basement had vacated by September 2008 amid a lease dispute, and Circuit City followed in 2009 as its chain liquidated.
The 38,000 square feet Circuit City gave up went back into the center's supply of large boxes.
The Filene's space stayed shut for two years and came back as something the building had never held.
ShopRite opened there on January 5, 2011, at about 59,000 square feet, then the largest ShopRite in Westchester County.
It had an eat-in lounge, a bakery, a floral department, sushi and grill stations, and hot and cold food bars.
A level laid out for apparel was now selling groceries, wrapped around the atrium and the pedestrian bridge.
That lease has held.
By 2025 the landlord was counting about 70,800 rentable square feet for the store, on a term running to 2031 with four five-year extension options.
Three tenants in one second-level box
Nordstrom Rack had opened at City Center in 2008 in roughly 35,000 square feet.
In October 2012 it reopened somewhere else inside the same building, and the space it left behind would be reused twice more.
Toys "R" Us moved in next, from 60 South Broadway at the Westchester Pavilion.
The combined Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us store took about 55,000 square feet and ran its grand opening from May 3 to 5, 2013.
It kept about 45 employees from the South Broadway store and added about 30 jobs, so a competitor's payroll moved a few blocks northwest.
Then came the chain's bankruptcy.
The store was gone by the summer of 2018, and a seasonal Halloween operator traded in the empty box while the landlord worked on a replacement.
Burlington arrived in 2019 with more than 50,000 square feet, and it was another tenant pulled off a neighboring property.
It had been at 275 Main Street, across the street, and left when its lease expired. The Shoppes on Main lost Walmart as well.
Getting up to that floor had become easier in the meantime.
The rebuild Kite Realty ran from December 2015 to 2018 put two escalators from the sidewalk straight to the second-level retail, along with new atrium glass, a skylight, and rebuilt entrances on Mamaroneck Avenue.
By the June 2025 leasing plan, Burlington held about 56,000 square feet there, with ShopRite on the same level.
The cinema closed for six months
In September 2023, National Amusements said it had not reached a new lease agreement for the Cinema de Lux.
The last screenings ran on Sunday, October 29, and about 80,000 square feet on the top floor went quiet.
The White Plains Performing Arts Center kept its season running on the same floor.
The public theater had been there since 2003, with 410 seats, and it stayed open through the whole stretch when the doors beside it were locked.
Apple Cinemas reopened the complex on May 16, 2024, with recliners and rebuilt lobby areas, and added premium-format screens after that.
Six months after the last Cinema de Lux show, the top floor was selling two kinds of tickets again.
The bookstore space still has no permanent tenant at City Center
Barnes & Noble closed on April 20, 2025, when its lease ended, after about 20 years at 230 Main Street.
Its last posted hours were 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.
No permanent tenant has taken it.
The roughly 27,000-square-foot ground-floor space has its own street door and a second way in from the plaza lobby, and it went onto the market with the rest of the building.
By December 15, 2025, Kite Realty had put City Center up for sale: 362,000 square feet, nearly 92 percent occupied, with ShopRite listed as the anchor and Burlington, Nordstrom Rack, New York Sports Club, and Apple Cinemas under it.
Target and the Performing Arts Center sit inside the same complex but outside the ownership on offer.
In September 2014 the property had been 97.8 percent leased.
The sale closed on June 25, 2026 for $50 million. The buyer has not been named publicly, and no leasing plan has appeared since.
The complex runs today in the shape the 2003 drawings gave it: Target below grade, ShopRite and Burlington on the second level, Apple Cinemas and the city theater above them, all of it reached through the enclosed bridges from the garage.
One storefront on Main Street is still waiting for a permanent tenant.
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