Billerica Mall, Billerica, MA

I know I said two more posts but this isn’t one of them. This is just a bonus post because I was looking in my camera roll of about six or seven photos of what remained of Billerica Mall in June, 2017. By the time I visited Kmart was still open and the only way to get inside Kmart was by accessing Kmart was by using their mall entrance. The store has since closed so I don’t know what has happened with the inside portion. The only reason I could believe that the interior concourse is still open is that there is a dry cleaning place and a smoke shop. If you really love vintage retaiil I guess drive down here. I wouldn’t personally but my opinion is my own.

Billerica Mall doesn’t have a really complicated history due to the fact it was built as part of a series of neighborhood malls; Mystic Mall and Woburn Mall. The mall was built in 1975 and did well till the 1990’s but large premier malls Pheasant Lane and Burlington starting taking business away from smaller malls in the area. The Billerica Flick which I’m assuming was a movie theater shut down in 1998 which is now a Dollar Tree. In 2005 Burlington Coat Factory sealed off their entrance to the mall. At this point in time the mall was doing very bad so Home Depot saw an opportunity to build a store in the mall’s space. It never happened because of a group called Billerica First in 2007. In 2009 the town gave RD Management one year to renovate the mall or else there would be a shutdown. During the renovation workers tools made a carbon monoxide, evacuating the mall and aired out. In February, 2010 the roof by Kmart collapsed temporarily shutting down the mall again. In 2011 The Shops at Billerica opened leaving only the Kmart Court open. On November 7, 2019 Sears announced this Kmart would be closing leaving the closet one in Holyoke on Hyannis.

I don’t really have anything else to say about this mall except one thing it’s seems like Kmart owned the little inside section.

Here are my pictures of The Shops at Billerica from June 10, 2017 making these photos some of the oldest on my blog.

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