Great Northern Mall (New York)

The Great Northern Mall was an enclosed regional shopping mall located in the Syracuse suburb of Clay, New York. The mall is currently under development by Hart Lyman Company which will transform the mall into a lifestyle center with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants.

Great Northern Mall
Great Northern Mall logo
Great Northern Mall
LocationClay, New York, United States
Opening dateOctober 5, 1988
Closing dateNovember 20, 2022
DeveloperWilmorite Properties
OwnerKohan Retail Investment Group[1]
Total retail floor area895,000 square feet (83,100 m2)
No. of floors1
Websitegreatnorthernmall.com

The mall served Syracuse's northern suburbs and Onondaga County.

Since the center opened in 1988, previous anchors have included The Bon-Ton, Dey Brothers, Chappell's, Macy's, Sibley's, Kaufmann's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Hess's.

The mall remained a major shopping mall before ultimately transitioning into a lifestyle center which is currently under development.

The later 2010's saw multiple traditional chain anchors update their brick-and-mortar fleets after being disrupted by digital retailers in recent years.

On January 4, 2017, Macy's, which maintains a much larger outpost at Destiny USA, announced as part of a strategy to focus on their highest achieving locations that they would be leaving the center.[2][3]

On June 28, 2018, it was announced Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing plan to phase out of brick-and-mortar.[4][5]

On July 10, 2021 Dick's Sporting Goods transitioned to a Wegmans-anchored shopping center less than a mile away.[6]

An IHOP opened in front of the mall on March 16, 2021.[7][8][9]

On August 17, 2022, the mall announced Hart Lyman Company was transforming the mall into a lifestyle center with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants.[10]

On October 27, 2022, a letter was sent to the remaining tenants informing them the mall closed permanently on November 20, 2022.[11] Days later on October 30, 2022, Guy Hart, who is acquiring the mall, asked the current owners to not enforce the deadline date giving the remaining tenants at least until the sale of the mall in December to vacate.[12] However, current owner Mike Kohan has insisted that November 20 is the actual closing date.[13]

References
  1. Moriarty, Rick (17 February 2017). "Long Island company buys troubled Great Northern Mall in Clay". syracuse.com. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  2. "At Great Northern Mall | Seritage". seritage.com.
  3. syracuse.com. "Macy's cutting 5,000 jobs; plans more store closings". syracuse.com. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  4. syracuse.com. "Sears at Great Northern Mall in Clay to close; CNY soon will have no Sears". syracuse.com. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  5. "Regal Cinemas Appear to Have Closed at Great Northern, ShoppingTown Malls". spectrumlocalnews.com. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  6. "Great Northern Mall is losing its last anchor store; where is Dick's going?". syracuse.com. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  7. "New IHOP opens near Great Northern Mall in Clay for breakfast Tuesday morning". WSTM. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  8. "Why a Rochester man is buying up empty space in dying malls, including Great Northern". syracuse.com. 2020-10-04. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  9. "Big new furniture store gives troubled Great Northern Mall a bright new look". syracuse.com. 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  10. Lockman, JeanneTyler Moodee (2022-08-17). "Syracuse-based developer to purchase Great Northern Mall, redevelop into lifestyle center". WSTM. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  11. "Great Northern tenants informed leases will be terminated, mall to close permanently". WSTM. 2022-10-30. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  12. "Pending owner helps to slow down imminent closure of Great Northern Mall after tenants ordered to vacate". WSYR. 2022-10-31. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  13. "Great Northern Mall owner maintaining November 20th closure, tells tenants to clear out". WSTM. 2022-11-10. Retrieved 2022-11-10.

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