BENSALEM, Pa. — The remaining stores inside Neshaminy Mall have been told to close and vacate their spaces by Oct. 31, with demolition of most of the Bucks County shopping center expected to begin in December.
The closure ends nearly six decades of retail inside the Route 1 mall, which opened in 1968 and has since lost major tenants including Macy’s, Sears and Modell’s Sporting Goods. LowerBucksSource.com first reported the move-out notices Sunday, according to LevittownNow.
Fewer than two dozen stores were still operating inside the mall when the notices went out. A photo the Bucks County Courier Times posted Monday shows stores inside with their shutters down and closed signs out.
Boscov’s, AMC Theatres and Barnes & Noble are expected to remain on the property and be part of its redevelopment, WPST reported.
“Redevelopment plans are underway since the mall’s been sold,” Bensalem Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo told the station, adding that the owners are working with the Redevelopment Authority of Bucks County.
DiGirolamo told the Courier Times he has not seen those plans, and none have been presented at recent Bensalem Township Council meetings.
Paramount Realty Group and Edgewood Properties bought the roughly 108-acre site from Brookfield Properties in July 2024 for $27.5 million.
At the time, Paramount Realty principal Maurice Zekaria told the Philadelphia Business Journal a redevelopment could include a mix of residential, retail and medical uses.
“It’s in the very early stages,” Kenneth Hayes, assistant treasurer and secretary of the county redevelopment authority, told Patch.
An earlier proposal to put a Fusion Gym in the former Macy’s space was scrapped by the end of 2023.
The mall sits near Exit 351 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Korman Co. developed it, with Sears and Strawbridge & Clothier as its original anchors, and it later passed through several owners, including Homart Development Co., General Growth Properties, and Brookfield.