​ Samanea New York To Debut Multiple New Tenants In 2022

WESTBURY, NY— Samanea New York is gearing up for a busy 2022, with multiple new tenants poised to open for business during the first half of the year and beyond.

The Asian supermarket 99 Ranch is reconstructing a 45,602-square-foot space at the rear of the shopping center, at 1500 Old Country Rd., previously called the Mall at the Source. Slated to open in March, the new market is the company’s first in New York and the fifty-fifth across 11 states.

“A lot of things are happening in 2022, and we’re going to be kicking it off with the opening of 99 Ranch supermarket,” said Dominic Coluccio, chief leasing and development officer for Samanea New York (pronounced suh-mon-ya).

MyPlanet Living Center is installing kitchen and bath showrooms at a 5,075-square-foot space that was created along with the mall's new main entrance on Old Country Road. The business is expected to debut there during the first quarter of 2022.

The arts and crafts concept Let’s Craft is slated to open on the mall’s second floor during Q2 this year. X-Golf, a golf simulator with a restaurant and bar, is also projected to open during the same quarter at a 6,263-foot space, its second facility on Long Island after Commack.

Meanwhile, Empire Adventure Park, which will feature rock-climbing walls, trampolines and virtual reality experiences, is set to debut its first Long Island facility at the former Saks Off 5th space at street level at the end of 2022.

Last week, Samanea announced it finalized a deal with Gravity Vault, a rock climbing gym that will install 45-foot climbing walls at a portion of the space in the vacant, second-floor former food court. The company will also occupy two neighboring retail units, a former collectibles shop and an art gallery, bringing their collective square footage to 18,119. This latest addition brings the mall’s occupancy rate to 67 percent.

Coluccio said Empire Adventure Park and Gravity Vault helps Samanea New York reposition the mall as a premier lifestyle destination, which is part of rebranding the property that the Singapore-based Lesso acquired in 2017. A $30 million renovation project started the following year.

“We are being very strategic with the space, realizing that consumers are looking for lifestyle destinations, which is what Samanea New York will now be," Coluccio said.

Toward that end, three Asian restaurants are also expected to open this year. K-Pot Korean BBQ and Chuan Tian Xia, a Szechuan cuisine, are slated to debut this spring, and MoCa Asian Bistro will open at the former P.F. Changs space this summer.

“As far as timing, many of the new restaurants on our new restaurant row are now under construction," Coluccio said. "We should know opening dates soon,"

The new additions will join three original tenants of the Source mall, The Cheesecake Factory, Dave & Busters and Fortunoff Backyard Store. Among the existing tenants that Samanea brought to the mall include five showrooms, Bloomingdale’s Furniture Outlet, which opened in September 2020, Art Deco Cabinetry, Frank & Camille’s West Pianos, Leon Banilivi Rugs, and Leonardo Furniture, which opened in June 2021.

Samanea New York’s reconstruction project included a second new entrance on the Merchants Concourse or east side of the building. The two new entrances are designed to create better traffic flow throughout the 750,000-square-foot building and 38-acre property

The mall will also host a carnival by Dreamland Amusements for two weeks starting Memorial Day weekend.

“We are lucky to have a very unique and strong location, centrally located on a retail corridor on Old Country Road in Westbury," Coluccio said. "We look forward to 2022."