 The first "professional dinner‐theater" in Brooklyn opened at Cooky's Steak Pub, located within the mall, three years later.The number of visitors grew during the mall's first decade of operation.Although Kings Plaza's owners did not release official visitation figures, by 1983, there were 20,000 cars passing through the mall's parking lot each day, and the city was earning $12 million per year from sales tax collected at each of the 150 stores.