Colonial Park Mall is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

in Lower Paxton Township,

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, about northeast of

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. Located at the northeast corner of U.S. Route 22 and Colonial Road in the Colonial Park CDP just east of

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and south of

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, it serves the eastern and northern suburbs of the

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. The mall's anchor store is

Boscov's Boscov's Inc. is a family-owned department store with over fifty locations in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Connecticut, West Virginia, and Rhode Island. Twenty-six of the stores are located in Pennsylvania. Corpo ...

. There are 2 vacant anchor stores that were once

The Bon-Ton Bonton Holdings Inc. operating as Bonton () was an American department store chain and group founded in 1898. It operated in Western New York, Pennsylvania, Western Maryland, and throughout the Midwestern United States. The former York, Pennsy ...

and

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

History

The mall originally opened in 1960 as an open-air center called Colonial Park Plaza and featured

and Food Fair as anchor stores. It was enclosed and renamed Colonial Park Mall in 1970. Three years later, Pomeroy's was added to the mall. In 1987,

was added. That same year,

company acquired the Pomeroy's chain from Allied Department Stores and rebranded the stores as The Bon-Ton in 1990. In 1997,

Glimcher Realty Trust Glimcher Realty Trust was a real estate investment trust based in Columbus, Ohio that invested in shopping malls. In 2015, the company was acquired by Washington Prime Group. Investments As of December 31, 2013, the company owned interests in 2 ...

acquired the Colonial Park Mall from Catalina Partners LP.

Washington Prime Group Washington Prime Group Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. The company is organized in Indiana with its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. From January 2015 to September 2016, the company had the name WP ...

assumed ownership of the mall in 2014 when it acquired Glimcher Realty Trust. In 2017,

Kohan Retail Investment Group Kohan Retail Investment Group is a shopping mall investment company based in Great Neck, New York. They “specialize” in malls and retail spaces as well as hotels. History Kohan bought Northland Mall from SITE Centers, Developers Diversified ...

bought the Colonial Park Mall from Washington Prime Group for $15 million. The Bon-Ton store closed in 2018. In September 2021, it was announced that the Sears anchor store, which was among the chain's last less than forty stores, would close. It closed on November 14, 2021. The Colonial Park Mall was planned to head to a sheriff's sale on July 20, 2023, due to Kohan Retail Investment Group owing over $250,000 in unpaid sewer and storm water bills to Lower Paxton Township. On April 28, 2023, it was announced that Stonewall Capital LLC, which is based in

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, was under contract to purchase the mall from Kohan Retail Investment Group. Stonewall Capital LLC had plans to redevelop the Colonial Park Mall by adding residential areas and redesigning the mall to feature new retail spaces. As part of the planned redevelopment, the Boscov's anchor would remain as they own their space. In July 2023, the planned sale fell through due to the unpaid sewer and storm water bills. A sheriff's sale on the delinquent utility charges was averted when Kohan paid 25 minutes before the deadline. In July 2024, the Colonial Park Mall will be put up for auction. The auction date was delayed. In September, Colonial Park Mall was sold for $8.8 million. In October 2024, it was later revealed that Zi Qian Zhang purchased the mall.

Anchors

Current

- since 1987

Former

- 1990-2018 *

- 1960-November 2021 *Pomeroy's - 1973-1990 * Food Fair

References

External links

Colonial Park Mall
{{Harrisburg Malls Shopping malls in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Shopping malls established in 1960