find something you love The Plymouth Meeting Mall is a 952,200 square feet (88,460 m2) shopping mall in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Center City, Philadelphia. It is located at Germantown Pike and Hickory Road, near the Mid-County Interchange where the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276) crosses the Northeast Extension/Blue Route (I-476).[2] The mall was built by The Rouse Company in 1966. The mall features a fountain and a carousel. Plymouth Meeting Mall currently contains more than 100 specialty stores and restaurants, including a central Food Court, and outlying restaurants California Pizza Kitchen, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Redstone American Grill, Benihana, Bertucci's, and King Buffet. Its original anchor stores Strawbridge & Clothier and Lit Brothers are now occupied by Macy's and Boscov's. The Boscov's site was once home to one of the largest branches of Hess's. There is also a 48,000 square feet (4,500 m2) AMC Theatre on the property, featuring 12 screens and stadium seating.
The Plymouth Meeting Mall was one of the very first malls in North America which, among its mixture of various stores, offered a church within the mall. The mall is owned and managed by PREIT (the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust). The mall is recognizable from a considerable distance away due to an adjoining nine-story office tower, One Plymouth Meeting.[1] The tower, containing 167,748 square feet (15,584.3 m2) of office space, is managed by Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. The Plymouth Meeting Mall was built by The Rouse Company in 1966, it was the third fully enclosed shopping mall in the Philadelphia area. The original anchor stores Strawbridge & Clothier and Lit Brothers. The One Plymouth Meeting office tower was added on an outparcel in 1969.[1] The mall suffered a major fire on January 10, 1970 at the east end (near Lit Brothers): "Approximately one third of the 100 stores in the suburban Philadelphia mall were damaged by either smoke, water or the fire."[4] Lit Brothers closed in 1976 and was replaced by Hess's in 1979.
The Hess's, which was the only location in the Philadelphia area, saw poor sales and closed in March 1993 as part of the restructuring of the chain.[5] The former Hess's became Boscov's on October 13, 1996.[6] In 2003, The Rouse Company sold the Plymouth Meeting Mall along with the Cherry Hill Mall, Echelon Mall, Exton Square Mall, Moorestown Mall, and The Gallery at Market East to PREIT for $548 million.[7] In 2005, Federated Department Stores purchased May Department Stores, the owners of Strawbridge's, and converted several Strawbridge's locations to Macy's, including the store at Plymouth Meeting Mall. Strawbridge's became Macy's in 2006. A redevelopment of over $100 million in 2008-2009 added new restaurants and an open-air "Lifestyle" wing featuring LOFT, Coldwater Creek (now closed), Jos. A. Bank, Chico's and Olly Shoes which opened in 2009 and early 2010. A 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) Whole Foods upscale grocery market was included in the redevelopment and anchors the "Outdoor Lifestyle Wing" of the property, which also includes an underground parking area.
[2] Previously, this location gained fame in 1985 when Swedish furniture company IKEA purchased and renovated an outparcel space for its first U.S. location. IKEA later moved in the early 2000s to its current site at 400 Alan Wood Road, off of the "Blue Route" in nearby Conshohocken; the IKEA building was later demolished to make way for the Outdoor Lifestyle Wing. In recent years the interior of the Plymouth Meeting Mall has seen an increase in vacancies, with sales of $320 per square foot in the three months ending September 2015. In 2015, it was announced that a 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m2) Legoland Discovery Center would be constructed at the Plymouth Meeting Mall, replacing a portion of the food court. Construction began in the summer of 2016 with a planned opening in 2017.[9] On January 4, 2017, it was announced that Macy's would be closing in spring 2017 as part of a plan to close 68 stores nationwide. Plymouth Meeting from the southwest. Plymouth Meeting Mall is above center, at the juncture of I-476 (foreground to upper left) and I-276 (left to right).
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Code Blue Declared In Montgomery County Select to search all Patches Macy's To Close Plymouth Meeting Mall Store Breaking: Macy's at the Plymouth Meeting Mall is closing by the end of the year. By Kara Seymour and Marc Torrence:Macy's is closing its store at the Plymouth Meeting Mall.The store closure was announced Wednesday. The local store is one of 68 Macy's stores across the country that will be shuttered in order to save money, reinvest it in e-commerce and give a smaller number of stores a better customer experience, the company said in its announcement.Three of the 68 stores are already closed, final clearance sales will soon begin or have begun at six stores, and the rest will close by the end of the year, according to a company press release. These stores are part of the 100 closings announced in August by the department store. When that announcement was made, the specific stores that were closing were not named.The company says the 214,000-square-foot Plymouth Meeting Mall location will be closed by the end of the year.
Associates at shuttered stores may have the option to transfer to nearby locations that remain open, the release said, and some full- and part-time associates will be offered severance packages.Here's a list of the stores in Pennsylvania slated to close by the end of 2017. Three stores in New Jersey are also included on the list. Neshaminy, Bensalem, PA (211,000 square feet; opened in 1968; 89 associates);Shenango Valley, Hermitage, PA (106,000 square feet; opened in 1976; 69 associates);Beaver Valley, Monaca, PA (203,000 square feet; opened in 1987; 78 associates);Lycoming, Muncy, PA (120,000 square feet; opened in 1995; 61 associates);Plymouth Meeting, Plymouth Meeting, PA (214,000 square feet; opened in 1966; 74 associates);Washington Crown Center, Washington, PA (148,000 square feet; opened in 1999; 67 associates);Click here to see the full list of Macy's stores that will be closing. More from Plymouth-Whitemarsh Patch Daily Newsletter - The latest Plymouth-Whitemarsh news delivered to your inbox every morning