{"id":317575,"date":"2026-10-30T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317575\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:12:06","slug":"bensalems-neshaminy-mall-closes-dioramas-to-be-relocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317575\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem\u2019s Neshaminy Mall closes, dioramas to be relocated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Halloween will be the death of Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. This is no ghost story: the 56-year-old mall shutters on Oct. 31.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of its anchor tenants will remain open: Barnes and Noble, Boscov\u2019s and the AMC cinema. The rest must clear out to prepare the site for demolition.\n<\/p>\n<p>During a recent visit Wednesday, the mall appeared already dead. There weren\u2019t any in-line stores open and the food court was barren. Empty corridors were occupied mostly by nostalgic looky-loos and mall walkers.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Bob Holmes, of Bensalem, was there to get in a little exercise for the last time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lost a lot of weight walking in here,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s become a ghost town.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Cundari, who grew up in nearby Trevose, came for the nostalgia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest memory I have here would have been about \u201983, I would have been about 6 or 7,\u201d he said. \u201cI remember coming with my brother. There was Sam Goody across from where Barnes and Noble is. I bought my first album. It was \u2018Weird Al Yankovic in 3D.\u2019\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,129366,129367],"class_list":["post-317575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-neshaminy","tag-shopping-malls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}