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Hanover Mall, Hanover, MA


Give me two more posts after this one and the dead malls will take a chill pill and then all the malls will be upscale or somewhat.

Hanover Mall was a mall in Hanover, Massachusetts which is a suburb of Boston. Currently the mall is getting demolished for a new shopping center called Hanover Crossing. I visited the mall twice one when I was a little kid and one other time one year and roughly 5 months before it’s closure and demolition.


Hanover Mall opened 1971 with four anchors Woolworth, Zayre, and Almy’s Sears was added onto the mall at a later date, which was at the mall just about till closure. Almy’s closed in 1987 and became Filene’s. Zayre became Ames after the two merged in 1989. Jordan Marsh closed in 1996 and became Macy’s. Macy’s was later torn down to make way for JCPenney and more shops. Filene’s expanded their store at the mall and the food court shut down and became Old Navy.

In 2002 Ames closed all their stores including the Hanover one. By fall of 2004 Walmart opened in that space. In January 2015 JCPenney closed their store and 39 others including the one at Providence Place. They were the first anchor to go. After their closure many stores left including Aéropostale, Hot Topic, PacSun, and Journey’s. Surprisingly the JCPenney became an Event Center that housed SouthCoast ComicCon. Now let’s talks about the demise. In December, 2016 the mall was bought by PECO Real Estate who announced a redevelopment almost instantly. On September 5, 2019 the preparations really kicked in and Sears announced they would be closing on December 15, 2019. On October 5, 2019 Walmart announced that they would be closing which I thought was strange that Walmart closed because they definitely would kept the space. At this point they were down to less than 54 stores like the website says. Most of the mall staples have left like Kay Jewelers, Claires, Bath & Body Works, and Yankee Candle. The stores that were left were just closing overnight because the mall’s owners didn’t ever say a closing date. The mall closed in January, 2020 and is currently being demolished.

I think this mall had a closure in mind for almost ten years because when I visited as a kid there was signs of a dead mall. I also think that the South Shore of Massachusetts is overmalled. I mean with three malls that are generally doing well South Shore Plaza, Kingston Collection, and Westgate Mall. Two malls have closed already this year on the South Shore Silver City Galleria and this. Also usually when a mall is bought for redevelopment purposes the mall usually is open for four years after the sale that how it was here, Arsenal Mall, and Woburn Mall.

Here are my pictures of Hanover Mall on August 10, 2018 which was on a Friday.

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