As It Awaits Wrecking Ball, What's Next For Granite Run Mall?
By Jim Melwert
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) -- The last of the leases have expired, so only a pair of anchor stores remain open at Granite Run Mall. All of the interior stores officially closed at the start of this month. So what's next for the former Delaware County landmark?
The new owners of the mall plan to knock it down, keeping Sears and Boscovs.
"The area where the current enclosed mall was is proposed to be demolished," says Middletown Township manager Bruce Clark, "and then replaced by a number of freestanding stores and parking."
Clark says the new owners are working to get zoning ordinance amendments for the plan which would also include two apartment buildings on the property.
"We're into the process fairly well, but there still is a ways to go as far getting all the details, you know, the T's crossed and the I's dotted in order to move the project forward," he says, "but it is moving forward right now."
While there is nostalgia for days long gone by at the mall, Clark says generally the feedback for the new proposal has been positive.
"I think residents and the general public are looking forward to having that key property within the township go through redevelopment and turn it back into a much more viable property than it has been over the past four or five years," he says. "I think people just realize it's time for a makeover, and time to inject some new life into the property and bring it back to kinds of a key property in this part of the county."
