Demolition of the former Sears store at Orange Park Mall begins, sparking community curiosity about what will replace the iconic space.<\/p>\n
ORANGE PARK, Fla. \u2014 Demolition is underway at the former Sears store at Orange Park Mall, marking a major change.<\/p>\n
The Sears location closed in 2020, according to our partners at the Florida Times-Union. Now, crews are tearing down the former department store as the property is cleared for what could come next.<\/p>\n
People shopping at the mall say they\u2019ve noticed the changes and are curious about what will eventually take the place of the longtime Sears location.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if the idea does go through as like a multi-use space, it would be really good because at least it\u2019ll draw people from the surrounding areas to come and shop if there will be like a grocery store there,\u201d said one shopper.<\/p>\n
Orange Park Mall did not immediately provide details about the demolition or what is planned for the space.<\/p>\n
First Coast News reached out to property owners for more information and is waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. More information will be added as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demolition of the former Sears store at Orange Park Mall begins, sparking community curiosity about what will replace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-392439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}