Park City Center

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Park City Center
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Park City Center
Location Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates 40°04′02″N76°20′20″W / 40.0673°N 76.3390°W / 40.0673; -76.3390
Address142 Park City Center
Opening dateSeptember 1971;52 years ago (1971-09) [1]
DeveloperPark City Shopping Center Corporation
Management Brookfield Properties
OwnerBrookfield Properties
No. of stores and services160+
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 1,443,000 square feet (134,100 m2) [2]
No. of floors1 with partial lower level (2 in Boscov's, JCPenney)
Parking Parking lot with 7,000 spaces [2]
Public transit accessAiga bus trans.svg RRTA bus: 1, 2, 3, MU PCX
Aiga bus trans.svg LT bus: SP
Website www.parkcitycenter.com

Park City Center is a shopping mall located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is the largest enclosed shopping center in Lancaster County. It is situated at the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and Harrisburg Pike. The mall has over 170 stores and features Boscov's, JCPenney, Kohl's, in addition to a Round 1 Bowling & Amusement. [3]

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With 170 stores, Park City Center is currently the fourth largest shopping mall in Pennsylvania.

History

Center court of Park City Center Park City Center center court.jpeg
Center court of Park City Center

The mall originally opened in 1971. The shape of the mall resembles a snowflake, with its stores occupying 8 corridors extending from the center. The roof in the center of the mall is a large white tent, and encloses the octagonal Center Court. The mall underwent a major renovation in 2008, which took 18 months and included updates to every part of the mall. During its early years Park City was also called "Mall of Four Seasons" because of the seasonal names given to the original four corridors leading to each anchor. Going clockwise from west to east was JCPenney in the two-story Winter quadrant, Sears in Spring, Gimbel's (later Pomeroy's then Boscov's) in Summer, and Watt & Shand (later Bon-Ton) in Autumn. The state of the art mall located in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country was one of the first to have its own closed-circuit television. [4] Studios for Park City Communications and Lancaster/York/Harrisburg CBS affiliate WLYH-TV 15 were located on the first floor in the Winter wing alongside an ice skating rink.

The mall is a major shopping destination for shoppers in the south-central Pennsylvania area due to its assortment of over 170 stores, all of which are newly renovated and most of which are not offered at the nearby Berkshire Mall and York Galleria.

The mall had only the second location of Lancaster department store Watt & Shand. The lifestyle center portion of the mall, Fountain Shoppes, is accessible from the main level. The mall's only fountain can be found here. The mall has had no indoor fountains for over 25 years. The mall is located approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of Harrisburg and 85 miles (137 km) west of Philadelphia.

In April 2018, The Bon-Ton announced it would shutter after it wasn't able to establish any new conditions to satisfy its established long-term debt. In 2019, the mall announced plans to transform the previous The Bon-Ton outpost into an open air entryway with two freestanding restaurants, a courtyard, and a new enclosed mall entrance. [5] Plans were initially on hold due to the onset of COVID-19, however Brookfield, the mall development firm, has since resumed early development discussions. [6]

In December 2018, Sears announced that it would close as part of a corporate effort to phase out of its traditional brick-and-mortar format. [7] In August 2019, it was announced that Round One Entertainment would reconstruct the previous Sears outpost and opened in 2020. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940Ð1980. Penn State Press. ISBN   9780271045238 . Retrieved September 11, 2018– via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 "Park City Center". Brookfield Properties.
  3. ↑ https://www.parkcitycenter.com/en/directory/
  4. ↑ "Mall Hall Of Fame" . Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ Gleiter, Sue (November 2, 2019). "Park City Center in Lancaster proposes building two restaurants, new mall entrance". PennLive. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ https://lancasteronline.com/business/local_business/park-city-might-keep-former-bon-ton-building-not-raze-it-for-restaurants/article_3789ade2-d91f-11eb-90cf-83efd1762fa2.html
  7. ↑ Thomas, Lauren (December 28, 2018). "Sears is closing 80 more stores in March, faces possible liquidation". CNBC. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ Hawkes, Jeff (August 1, 2019). "Round1 to bring games, food to vacated Sears space at Lancaster's Park City mall". LancasterOnline. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
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