| Great Northern Mall | |
| Location: | Clay, New York, United States |
| Opening Date: | October 5, 1988 |
| Closing Date: | November 20, 2022 |
| Owner: | Kohan Retail Investment Group[1] |
| Floor Area: | 895000square feet |
| Floors: | 1 |
The Great Northern Mall was an enclosed regional shopping mall located in the Syracuse suburb of Clay, New York. The mall is currently under development by Hart Lyman Company which will transform the mall into a lifestyle center with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants.
The mall served Syracuse's northern suburbs and Onondaga County.
Since the center opened in 1988, previous anchors have included The Bon-Ton, Dey Brothers, Chappell's, Macy's, Sibley's, Kaufmann's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Hess's.
The mall remained a major shopping mall before ultimately transitioning into a lifestyle center which is currently under development.
The later 2010's saw several storied traditional department store retailers update its brick-and-mortar formats after being encroached upon to a degree by several digital retailers in recent years.
On January 4, 2017, Macy's, which retains a much larger outpost at Destiny USA, announced that after a strategy had been elected by them to solely focus on their highest achieving locations that they would be leaving this shopping center.[2] [3]
On June 28, 2018, it was announced Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing decision to eliminate its brick-and-mortar format.[4] [5]
On July 10, 2021 Dick's Sporting Goods transitioned to an entirely new store format at a Wegmans-anchored shopping center less than a mile away.[6]
An IHOP opened in front of the mall on March 16, 2021.[7] [8] [9]
On August 17, 2022, the mall announced Hart Lyman Company was transforming the mall into a lifestyle center with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants.[10]