The End of America's First Outlets

Big change underway in sleepy Flemington, New Jersey

If you lived in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, maybe even Delaware and Connecticut in the 1980s or ’90s, there’s a good chance you were aware of Liberty Village in Flemington, New Jersey, considered the nation’s first major outlet mall.

Despite once being an incredibly popular shopping destination, Liberty Village began to empty out and fall apart m…