Great Northern Mall (New York)

Great Northern Mall

Great Northern Mall
Location	Clay, New York, United States
Opening date	October 5, 1988
Closing date	November 20, 2022
Developer	Wilmorite Properties
Owner	Kohan Retail Investment Group[1]
Total retail floor area	895,000 square feet (83,100 m^2)
No. of floors	1

The Great Northern Mall was an enclosed regional shopping mall located in the Syracuse suburb of Clay, New York. The mall is currently under development by Hart Lyman Company which will transform the mall into a lifestyle center with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants.

The mall served Syracuse's northern suburbs and Onondaga County.

Since the center opened in 1988, previous anchors have included Sears, The Bon-Ton, Dey Brothers, Chappell's, Macy's, Sibley's, Kaufmann's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Hess's.

The mall remained a major shopping mall before ultimately transitioning into a lifestyle center which is currently under development. On November 20, 2022 the Great Northern Mall of Clay closed its doors.^[2]

The later 2010's saw several storied traditional department store retailers update its brick-and-mortar formats after being encroached upon to a degree by several digital retailers in recent years.

On January 4, 2017, Macy's, which retains a much larger outpost at Destiny USA, announced that, after a strategy had been elected by them to solely focus on their highest achieving locations, they would shut their doors for good.^[3][4]

September 2018 is when Sears would go out of business for good as part of an ongoing decision to eliminate its brick-and-mortar format.^[5][6]

On July 10, 2021, Dick's Sporting Goods shut down its Great Northern Mall store to relocate to an entirely new store format at a Wegmans-anchored shopping center less than a mile away.^[7]

An IHOP opened in front of the mall on March 16, 2021.^[8][9][10]

On August 17, 2022, the mall announced Hart Lyman Company was transforming the mall into a lifestyle center with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants.^[11]

References

1. Moriarty, Rick (17 February 2017). "Long Island company buys troubled Great Northern Mall in Clay". syracuse.com. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
2. "Great Northern Mall closes its doors after more than three decades in Clay". spectrumlocalnews.com. 2020-11-20. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
3. "At Great Northern Mall | Seritage". seritage.com.
4. syracuse.com. "Macy's cutting 5,000 jobs; plans more store closings". syracuse.com. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
5. syracuse.com. "Sears at Great Northern Mall in Clay to close; CNY soon will have no Sears". syracuse.com. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
6. "Regal Cinemas Appear to Have Closed at Great Northern, ShoppingTown Malls". spectrumlocalnews.com. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
7. "Great Northern Mall is losing its last anchor store; where is Dick's going?". syracuse.com. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
8. "New IHOP opens near Great Northern Mall in Clay for breakfast Tuesday morning". WSTM. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
9. "Why a Rochester man is buying up empty space in dying malls, including Great Northern". syracuse.com. 2020-10-04. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
10. "Big new furniture store gives troubled Great Northern Mall a bright new look". syracuse.com. 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
11. Lockman, JeanneTyler Moodee (2022-08-17). "Syracuse-based developer to purchase Great Northern Mall, redevelop into lifestyle center". WSTM. Retrieved 2022-08-17.

External links

• Official Site

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