18C — August 30 - September 12, 2013 — Shopping Centers — Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal
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ARRiSBuRG, PA —The one-million-s/f regional Harrisburg What a Difference a year Makes 1million s/f HarrisburgMall is definitely ‘new & improved’ H
/DQFDVWHU tion under its previous owner, but then had been largely neglected as it was held in bank receivership. A vacant, never-completed shell building that was intended to be Sega Sports Restaurant stood for six years as a front-and-center eyesore. Within weeks after the June 2012 acquisition, St. John Properties, one of the Mid- Atlantic’s most successful privately held commercial real estate developers, and its Part- ner Petrie Ross demolished the Sega building and began an aggressive improvement cam- paign. Combined with a fresh focus on leasing, these efforts have had swift results: • A major redesign of the mall’s Main Entrance 2 includ- ed decorative paver sidewalks, benches, lights fixtures, and landscaping. • Leased prime space in the front of the mall which had been vacant for six years to 2nd & Charles. • Added Taco Bell as a tenant and gave the Food Court new signage, skylights and roof. • The mall’s highly visible, 150-ft. high pylon sign was re- vamped and upgraded with a $750,000 state-of-the-art LED electric messaging system. • Interior improvements in- clude improved lighting, new store blade signs and stainless steel handrails with major improvements to come. • Parking lot improvements include upgraded lighting, re- striping, realigned traffic drive aisles, and painting underside of parking deck. • Amodernized and expanded security monitoring/customer service area includes a sub- station for the Swatara Twp. Police Department. The mall has approximately 70 tenants, which in addi- tion to the anchors include Aeropostale, Bath and Body Works, 2nd&Charles, Champs Sports, Claire’s, Express, Foot Locker, Kay Jewelers, New York and Co., Radio Shack, Victoria’s Secret and others. Free-standing Toys “R” Us and Applebee’s are also part of the tenant mix. An announcement is ex- pected soon on the lease of an additional 8,000 s/f space in front of the mall. One anchor store—previ- ously occupied by Boscov’s until its corporate bankruptcy in 2008 remains available for lease. n MEAN FOR YOU? Mall has undergone significant improvements in just over a year since it was acquired by a partnership of MD based firms St. John Properties and Pet- rie Ross Ventures . Located on a 61-acre parcel on Paxton St. off Exit 45 of I-83 in Harrisburg, and an- chored by Macy’s, Bass Pro Shops, and Regal Cinema’s Great Escape Harrisburg Mall Stadium 14, Harrisburg Mall had received a $60 million exterior and interior renova- 1Pa[ThB]hSTaXb_a^PRcXeTfXcW^daR[XT]c aT[PcX^]bWX_b FTd]STabcP]Sh^daQdbX]Tbb P]SX]SdbcahP]SPRcXeT[h[XbcT]c^h^da ]TTSbR^]RTa]bP]S^__^acd]XcXTb ATP[4bcPcT}2^]bcadRcX^]}1dbX]Tbb};XcXVPcX^]}4\_[^h\T]c} Harrisburg Mall - Bass Pro Shops Celebrating over 20 years of Engineering Excellence! QUALITY • COMMITMENT • PERFORMANCE Subsurface Investigations • Construction Inspection and Testing Geotechnical Design & Analysis • Environmental Site Assessments and Remediation • Clean Fill Testing • Carbonate Site Assessments Stormwater Infiltration Testing • Laboratory Soils Testing www.earthengineering.com Corporate Headquarters: 610-277-0880 • Lehigh Valley: 610-967-4540 Central PA: 717-697-5701 • South Jersey: 856-768-1001
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