Park City Center

Park City Center is a shopping mall located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is the largest enclosed shopping center in Lancaster County. It is situated at the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and Harrisburg Pike. The mall has over 160 stores and the anchor stores are Round 1 Entertainment, Kohl's, JCPenney, and Boscov's. There is one vacant anchor store that was once The Bon-Ton.

This article is about the U.S. mall. For the mall in Bulgaria, see Park City Center (Sofia). For other uses, see Park City (disambiguation).
Park City Center
South entrance to Park City Center
LocationLancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates40.0673°N 76.3390°W / 40.0673; -76.3390
Address142 Park City Center
Opening dateSeptember 1971 (1971-09)[1]
DeveloperPark City Shopping Center Corporation
ManagementBrookfield Properties
OwnerBrookfield Properties
No. of stores and services160+
No. of anchor tenants5 (4 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area1,443,000 square feet (134,100 m2)[2]
No. of floors1 with partial lower level (2 in Boscov's, JCPenney, former Bon-Ton, and former Sears)
ParkingParking lot with 7,000 spaces[2]
Public transit access RRTA bus: 1, 2, 3, MU PCX
LT bus: SP
Websitewww.parkcitycenter.com

History

The mall originally opened in 1971. The shape of the mall resembles a snowflake, with its stores occupying 8 corridors extending from the center. The roof in the center of the mall is a large white tent, and encloses the octagonal Center Court. The mall underwent a major renovation in 2008, which took 18 months and included updates to every part of the mall. During its early years Park City was also called "Mall of Four Seasons" because of the seasonal names given to the 4 corridors leading to each anchor. Going clockwise from west to east was JCPenney in the two-story Winter quadrant, Sears (closed March 10, 2019) in Spring, Gimbel's (future Pomeroy's/Boscov's) in Summer and Watt & Shand (later Bon-Ton, now closed) in Autumn. The high tech mall located in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country was one of the first to have its own closed-circuit television.[3] Studios for Park City Communications and Lancaster/York/Harrisburg CBS affiliate WLYH-TV 15 were located on the first floor in the Winter wing alongside an ice skating rink.

The mall is a major shopping destination for shoppers in the south-central Pennsylvania area due to its assortment of over 170 stores, all of which are newly renovated and most of which are not offered at the nearby Berkshire Mall and York Galleria.

The mall had only the second location of Lancaster department store Watt & Shand. The lifestyle center portion of the mall, Fountain Shoppes, is accessible from the main level. The mall's only fountain can be found here. The mall has had no indoor fountains for over 25 years. The mall is located approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of Harrisburg and 85 miles (137 km) west of Philadelphia.

The Bon-Ton store at the mall closed in 2018 as part of that chain's liquidation. On December 28, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 80 stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2019.[4] In August 2019, it was announced that Round One Entertainment would take over the former Sears space, opening in 2020.[5] In 2019, the mall announced plans to demolish the former Bon-Ton and replace it with two freestanding restaurants and a new mall entrance.[6]

References
  1. A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940Ð1980. Penn State Press. ISBN 9780271045238. Retrieved September 11, 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. "Park City Center". Brookfield Properties Retail Group.
  3. "Mall Hall Of Fame". Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  4. Thomas, Lauren (December 28, 2018). "Sears is closing 80 more stores in March, faces possible liquidation". CNBC. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  5. Hawkes, Jeff (August 1, 2019). "Round1 to bring games, food to vacated Sears space at Lancaster's Park City mall". LancasterOnline. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
  6. Gleiter, Sue (November 2, 2019). "Park City Center in Lancaster proposes building two restaurants, new mall entrance". PennLive. Retrieved February 24, 2020.


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