North Hanover Mall

North Hanover Mall
Interior of North Hanover Mall, April 2018
Map
LocationHanover, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates39°49′15″N 76°59′37″W / 39.82093°N 76.99356°W / 39.82093; -76.99356
Address1155 Carlisle Street
Opening date1967
DeveloperCrown American
ManagementMason Asset Management
OwnerMason Asset Management
No. of stores and services30
No. of anchor tenants4 (3 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area452,000 sq ft (42,000 m2)
No. of floors1 (2 in former JCPenney)
Public transit accessBus transport rabbittransit bus: 20N, 22N
Websitenorthhanovermall.com

North Hanover Mall is a shopping mall in Hanover, Pennsylvania. It is anchored by Burlington, and Rural King.

History

The mall opened in 1967 as an open-air strip including W.T. Grant, Town & Country (a discount chain then owned by Lane Bryant), Sears, and Food Fair. In 1969 and 1970, it underwent reconstruction to become an enclosed shopping mall, with The Bon-Ton moving from an existing store downtown[1] and JCPenney joining. The Town & Country store became Kmart, which moved out in 1995 to a Superstore nearby that closed in 2004 and became Black Rose Antiques.[2] The Bon-Ton moved out in 2006.[3] After Black Rose Antiques moved out of the mall, construction began in 2007 to demolish the former Black Rose building for a Dick's Sporting Goods, while also demolishing the former Bon-Ton for a two-story Boscov's.[4] Although Boscov's was originally to open in 2008, its opening date was later pushed back to 2009,[5] but in April of that year, the mall's manager confirmed that Boscov's would not be opening in that space.[6] In 2012, JCPenney moved into the space originally planned for Boscov's.[7]

On September 9, 2014, PREIT sold the North Hanover Mall, as well as State College's Nittany Mall, for a combined $32.3 million. It sold the North Hanover Mall as part of a portfolio-improvement initiative it launched in 2012, which involved selling underperforming properties. The 452,000-square-foot North Hanover Mall had sales of $275 per square foot at the end of June and a non-anchor occupancy of 72.8 percent, according to the trust. Sales and occupancy at the mall lagged the trust's portfolio, which had averaged sales of $378 per square foot and non-anchor occupancy of 89.5 percent for the same time period.[8] The buyer of the mall was Mason Asset Management of Great Neck, New York.[9]

On January 4, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 103 stores nationwide. The store closed in April 2018.[10] On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced that this location would be closing on October 18, 2020, as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide.[11] A Rural King store opened in the former Sears location in Spring of 2021. Hiring for the new anchor store began in mid-December of 2020. On March 28, 2022, a fire broke out on the roof of the former JCPenney building in one of the HVAC units, causing an estimated $1 million in damage to the building as well as the attached mall.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Bon Ton Will Move To Mall" (Free). The Gettysburg Time. No. 64. Column 7, Paragraph 2. April 9, 1968. p. 3. Retrieved October 23, 2014.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ Deinlein, Joseph (December 13, 2009). "Black Rose concept expands". The Evening Sun. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  3. ^ "Hanover - Archives". Nl.newsbank.com. September 22, 2005. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
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  5. ^ "York Daily Record - Home". Nl.newsbank.com. February 14, 2008. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  6. ^ "Hanover - Archives". Nl.newsbank.com. April 30, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  7. ^ "JC Penney Relocating, Expanding at North Hanover Mall". Philadelphia Citybizlist. January 31, 2012. Archived from the original on June 4, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  8. ^ Wentz, Jennifer (September 9, 2014). "North Hanover Mall sold". The Hanover Evening Sun. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  9. ^ "North Hanover Mall in Pennsylvania Sold for $16Mln". Crenews.com. September 24, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  10. ^ "Kmart stores in Harrisburg, Enola and Sears store in Hanover will close this year, company says". WPMT-TV. January 4, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  11. ^ "JCPenney Store Closings – Penney IP LLC".
  12. ^ "Mall fire started on roof of JCPenney, crews say". 29 March 2022.