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 Great Northern Mall | |
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| Location | Clay, New York, United States |
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| 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 m2) |
| 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. As of November 20, 2022, the Great Northern Mall of Clay is no more. [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 call it quits 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] As of 2025, the development remains in the planning stages, and is anticipated to break ground in Fall of 2025. [12]