Opening date 1973 No. of anchor tenants 3 Opened 1972 Number of stores and services 60 | No. of stores and services 60 No. of floors 1 Phone +1 570-454-2100 Number of anchor tenants 3 | |
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Location Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA Total retail floor area 610,000 square feet (57,000 m) Address 106 Laurel Mall Dr, Hazleton, PA 18202, USA Hours Open today · 10AM–9PMMonday10AM–9PMTuesday10AM–9PMWednesday10AM–9PMThursday10AM–9PMFriday10AM–9PMSaturday10AM–9PMSunday11AM–6PM Owner Lexington Realty International Similar Wyoming Valley Mall, Church Hill Mall, Fairlane Village Mall, Schuylkill Mall, Viewmont Mall Profiles | ||
Laurel Mall is a shopping mall which opened in 1973 just northwest of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. It features three current anchor stores, Kmart, Boscov's, and Dunham's Sports. 10-theater Regal Cinemas and Aldi are outparcels. The mall is owned by Lexington Realty.
History
Opened in 1973, the mall initially featured two anchor stores: Zayre at the west end, and Fowler, Dick, and Walker, The Boston Store at the east end. Original tenants included GNC, Hickory Farms, Karmelkorn, Waldenbooks, Rea & Derrick Drugstore, and an A&P supermarket, of which only GNC remains and moved within the mall in 2016. Boscov's took over the Fowler, Dick & Walker store in 1981, and Zayre sold to Ames in 1989.
Construction of a new wing anchored by J. C. Penney began in 1993. Also that year, the Ames store closed and began conversion to a Kmart, which opened in September 1994. Boscov's expanded by 52,800 square feet (4,910 m2) in 1994, and the mall interior was renovated with skylights and new flooring. McCrory Stores closed at the mall in 1995. One year later, Ben Franklin Crafts replaced it. The space is now Old Navy. A Hoyts movie theater opened next to the mall in 1998.
In July 2005, the mall was sold by PREIT to Laurel Mall, LLC for $33.5 million, including assumed debt of $22.6 million. In August 2008, radio station WBHT sponsored a performance by the boy band Menudo at Laurel Mall. On January 15, 2014, it was announced that the JCPenney store would be closing as part of a plan to close 33 locations nationwide. In 2014 Laurel Mall, LLC changed management companies from LMS Realty to Lexington Realty International. In August 2016, a marketing manager claimed 96.6 percent capacity, and construction was underway for TJ Maxx to "take up almost the entire northwest corner of the mall" in November.