North Hanover Mall

The mall opened in 1967 as an open-air strip including W.T. Grant, Town & Country (a discount chain then owned by Lane Bryant), Sears, and Food Fair. In 1969 and 1970, it underwent reconstruction to become an enclosed shopping mall, with The Bon-Ton moving from an existing store downtown^[1] and JCPenney joining. The Town & Country store became Kmart, which moved out in 1995 to a Superstore nearby that closed in 2004 and became Black Rose Antiques.^[2] The Bon-Ton moved out in 2006.^[3] After Black Rose Antiques moved out of the mall, construction began in 2007 to demolish the former Black Rose building for a Dick's Sporting Goods, while also demolishing the former Bon-Ton for a two-story Boscov's.^[4] Although Boscov's was originally to open in 2008, its opening date was later pushed back to 2009,^[5] but in April of that year, the mall's manager confirmed that Boscov's would not be opening in that space.^[6] In 2012, JCPenney moved into the space originally planned for Boscov's.^[7]

On September 9, 2014, PREIT sold the North Hanover Mall, as well as State College's Nittany Mall, for a combined $32.3 million. It sold the North Hanover Mall as part of a portfolio-improvement initiative it launched in 2012, which involved selling underperforming properties. The 452,000-square-foot North Hanover Mall had sales of $275 per square foot at the end of June and a non-anchor occupancy of 72.8 percent, according to the trust. Sales and occupancy at the mall lagged the trust's portfolio, which had averaged sales of $378 per square foot and non-anchor occupancy of 89.5 percent for the same time period.^[8] The buyer of the mall was Mason Asset Management of Great Neck, New York.^[9]

On January 4, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 103 stores nationwide. The store closed in April 2018.^[10] On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced that this location would be closing on October 18, 2020, as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide.^[11] A Rural King store opened in the former Sears location in Spring of 2021. Hiring for the new anchor store began in mid-December 2020. On March 28, 2022, a fire broke out on the roof of the former JCPenney building in one of the HVAC units, causing an estimated $1 million in damage to the building as well as the attached mall.^[12] The former JCPenney has since been demolished. On February 21, 2025, Burlington closed their doors at this location leaving Rural King as the sole operating anchor.^[13]

On November 17, 2025, Hanover Borough officials condemned the North Hanover Mall until repairs have been made due to a wall partially collapsing where the former JCPenney store used to be..^[14]

• North Hanover Mall