Mall Tea

The Shops at Liberty Place is in Center City Philadelphia and is part of Liberty Place. The Shops are centered  around a giant dome with shops on two levels. There are hallways that stem out to 17th Street, Market Street, Sixteenth Street, and Chestnut Street. The food court is actually bigger than some malls in the suburbs or even in rural areas. The Shops at Liberty Place was in phase two of the Liberty Place project along with Two Liberty Place, a parking garage, and a Ritz Carlton which later became a Westin Hotel. The Shops at Liberty Place opened on November 13, 1990 which was not good because the country was in a recession and the mall was 25 percent vacant which translates to Fifty stores and fourteen restaurants that were open. In 1990 the mall was owned by the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. In 1999 the mall was sold to Sunbelt Management. The Shops at Liberty Place has an interesting mix of shops. Now I don’t know if this was meant to be an upscale ma

Since I finished all my malls in the New York City metro area its time to go to Philadelphia. It seems to be that there are many malls in this area off Philadelphia that are very close to each other; Oxford Valley Mall, Neshaminy Mall, and Philadelphia Mills. I only went because I wanted to get to NYC before it became insanely congested like it wasn’t already and visit one more mall before I went up north. Franklin Mills opened on May 11, 1989 and was developed by the Mills Corporation who also developed Sawgrass Mills and The Shops at Riverside. When the mall opened the anchors were more of a regular mix that you would find at a mall like  Holyoke Mall ; they had a JCPenney, Sears, Reading China and Glass, and Phar-Mor which became Boscov’s a few years after opening and became Steve and Barry’s later on. Reading China and Glass closed and became Marshalls abd OfficeMax. Sears left the mall and became a AMC. Later on Office Max left and became a Sears Appliance Outlet. In March 20