{"id":6195,"date":"2025-10-17T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6195\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:58:21","slug":"abrams-realty-of-elkins-park-to-demolish-redevelop-berkshire-mall-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6195\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams Realty of Elkins Park to demolish, redevelop Berkshire Mall in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abrams Realty &amp; Development of Elkins Park (Cheltenham Township) is under contract to purchase the 59-acre property Berkshire Mall in the Wyomissing section of Berks County, The Philadelphia Business Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/philadelphia\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/berkshire-mall-abrams-namdar-redevelopment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to their coverage, Abrams Realty plans to demolish most of the 55-year-old shopping center and develop new retail space.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly half vacant property has fallen into disrepair in recent years and was most recently assessed for $5.1 million, The Journal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very bullish on putting a great tenant lineup together and bringing this one back to its glory days with new best-in-class retailers,\u201d Peter Abrams, owner of Abrams Realty, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Abrams Realty said last month that their <a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/abrams-realty-of-elkins-park-to-begin-exton-square-mall-redevelopment-in-spring-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Exton Square Mall\u00a0redevelopment<\/a> is expected to begin in late spring 2026.<\/p>\n<p>For all the latest news, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/glensidelocal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or sign up for Glenside Local\u2019s \u201cDaily Buzz\u201d newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glensidelocal.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abrams Realty &amp; Development of Elkins Park (Cheltenham Township) is under contract to purchase the 59-acre property Berkshire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","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=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}