Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey ... were eager to be at the American Dream when the amusement park opened in October, or the ski slope opened in December ...

Don Ghermezian’s firm is pushing for a refund after it claims it overpaid $183 million in taxes to East Rutherford, ...

A $5 billion, 3.1-million-square-foot mall in East Rutherford, N.J., that Triple Five developed. The mall—which includes 1.5 million square feet of retail, the largest indoor amusement park in the ...

The land where the mall sits is assessed at more than $3 billion, but the mall owners argue that it's worth roughly half that ...

You can’t get a haircut, a massage or go down a ski slope online. And, if I’m getting you out to go to those things, chances are that dwell time will be extended.” The recent troubles of the American ...

The mall was built using more than $1 billion in state and local subsidies. Story continues below photo gallery. Since American Dream was built on state land owned by the New Jersey Sports and ...