Bangor Mall

Bangor Mall is a 60-acre (24 ha) shopping mall in Bangor, Maine, United States. The anchor stores are JCPenney, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Furniture, Mattress And More. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Sears.

Bangor Mall
LocationBangor, Maine, USA
Coordinates44°49′49″N 68°44′56″W
Opening dateOctober 1978
DeveloperThe Kravco Co.[1]
ManagementNamdar Realty Group
OwnerNamdar Realty Group
No. of stores and services52 (Open)
No. of anchor tenants4 (3 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area653,000 square feet (60,700 m2)[2]
No. of floors1

Located off the Stillwater Avenue exit on Interstate 95, it serves as a shopping center for the surrounding Bangor area. Current stores include JCPenney and Dick's Sporting Goods. Previous anchors include Sears, which closed in 2018, Macy's (originally Filene's that opened in 1998), which closed in 2017 and became Furniture, Mattress And More in 2018, and Porteous, which closed in 2003 and became Dick's Sporting Goods in 2004. Bangor Mall is managed by Namdar Realty Group, who acquired the mall for $12.6 million in 2019 after Simon Property Group defaulted on an $80 million loan.[3]

Bangor Mall Exterior Entrance in Spring 2018

Built in 1977 on a former dairy farm and opened in October 1978,[4][5] it sits on Stillwater Avenue north of Bangor's central business district. It can be reached from nearby Interstate 95 via exits 186 and 187. In 1998, Filene's opened its store in the mall, during the 1996-1998 renovation.

References
  1. Demick, Barbara (May 18, 1989). "Kravco And 6 Of Its Malls Sold To A Canadian Developer". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  2. https://business.simon.com/mall/leasingsheet/7700_BangorMall.pdf
  3. Valigra, Lori (April 19, 2019). "Bangor Mall sells for $12.6 million, well below assessed value". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  4. Varney, Simon (October 10, 1990). "The Bangor Mall turns twelve". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  5. McCord, Tom (January 14, 2010). "Bangor slowly rediscovers the value of its past". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
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