Mall Tea

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 Marc...

VF Outlet Mall is another abandoned mall that I visited on the brink of closure. However unlike  Berkshire Mall  and The Mall at The Source. Though that both were creepy, eerie, and a little bit scary in a strange way this was on another level. If you don’t know what VF Outlet Stores and Malls let me give you the rundown. VF is a discount or outlet chain that has stores and malls across the United States that was founded in 1899 in Reading, PA and now headquartered in Denver. They have almost every brand it feels like in their stores. To grow there options they would open malls in their former mills and no not Simon’s Mills outlet center properties. I don’t think this was in a mill but I knew this specific mall was a disaster. This use to have many outlet brands in the actual mall like Bass, Jones New York, and Van Heusen. As you can tell this is actually a decent size of mall space that was once filled with outlet shops and maybe a food court but that isn’t for s...