Stroud 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 ...

located in

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania Stroudsburg is a borough in and the county seat of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies within the Poconos region approximately five miles (8 km) from the Delaware Water Gap at the confluence of Brodhead Creek, McMichaels, ...

. It is located in

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region of

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, just a few minutes from the

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border adjacent to

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and

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exit 305. It is anchored by

J. C. Penney Penney OpCo LLC , doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain with 649 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. It is managed as part of the Catalyst Brands portfolio along ...

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, and EFO Furniture Outlet.

History

The mall was first announced in May 1976, to be development by a joint effort of

Hess's Hess's, originally known as Hess Brothers, was a department store chain based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company was founded a single store in 1897, and grew to nearly 80 stores by its commercial peak in the late 1980s. The chains stores were ...

and the Montgomery Development Company of

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. The mall would feature Hess's and another unnamed department store as anchors, with 40 smaller stores and a twin-screen cinema, with Hess's set to open before the rest of the mall. By October 1976, several tenants had already signed onto the mall including Endicott Johnson,

DEB Shops Deb Shops, Inc. was a specialty retail chain store and catalog in the United States, selling women's clothing and accessories under its own private labels, as well as other labels, then exclusively an online retailer. The company was based in Phil ...

Kay Jewelers Sterling Jewelers, Inc. is an American specialty jewelry company headquartered in Akron, Ohio through the Fairlawn suburb. The company was founded in 1910 by Henry Shaw (the father of Jerry Shaw, the chairman emeritus of Sterling today), from L ...

, Piercing Pagoda,

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, and B. Dalton Booksellers. J.C. Penney would be announced as the likely second anchor in early 1977, and the mall would continue signing more stores through this time, including Walden Books,

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, and Stewart's. Hess's would hold its grand opening on July 29, 1977, followed by the mall itself on March 2, 1978. J.C. Penney, which had officially signed a lease in September 1977, would open later in 1978. Sears would join the mall with its grand opening on August 3, 1994, as part of $12 million expansion project. The store, like J. C. Penney, would replace a location in downtown Stroudsburg. The Sears move had been announced as early as 1990 but did not occur until 1994. Sears was the only two-story anchor in the mall, and featured what at the time was the first escalator to be located in Monroe County. The novelty of the escalator caused quite a stir in local media, and as part of the festivities Sears had reigning Miss Pennsylvania Kirstin Deliz Border on hand for the occasion.

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 ...

would take over Hess's at the mall in 1994, as part of the 20 stores they purchased during the chain's break up. The mall would receive another renovation in 2002. The then 7-screen Loews theater would close in December 2010, and would reopen as a 12-screen

Cinemark Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (stylized as CineMark from 1998 until 2022 and in all caps since 2022) is an American movie theater chain that started operations in 1977 and since then it has operated theaters with hundreds of locations throughout the A ...

theater in November 2011. The Bon-Ton closed all stores, including the Stroud Mall location, in 2017. On November 8, 2018, it was announced the

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 ...

store at Stroud Mall would close by February 2019 as part of a plan to close 40 stores nationwide.

moved into the mall in November 2019 in the former space of

, replacing the store in downtown Stroudsburg. EFO Furniture Outlet has opened a store in the mall on January 24, 2020, replacing the first floor of Sears.

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