The Great Northern Mall was an enclosed regional

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

located in the

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suburb of

Clay, New York Clay is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 58,206, making it Syracuse's most populous suburb. The town was named after American attorney and statesman Henry Clay. Clay is north of Syracus ...

. The mall is currently under development by Hart Lyman Company which will transform the mall into a

lifestyle center A lifestyle center (American English), or lifestyle centre (Commonwealth English), is a shopping center or mixed-used commercial development that combines the traditional retail functions of a shopping mall with leisure amenities oriented toward ...

with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants. The mall served Syracuse's northern suburbs and

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. Since the center opened in 1988, previous anchors have included

The Bon-Ton Bon-Ton Holdings Inc. is an American online retailer and former department store chain founded in 1898. After rapid expansion in the 1990s and early 2000s, the original company had financial troubles, ultimately filing for bankruptcy in 2018 ...

Dey Brothers Dey Brothers was a department store located in and around Syracuse, New York. History Dey's, a part of Allied Stores Co., was purchased by Campeau Corp. in 1986 and sold off in 1987 to May Company, the parent company of Dey's rival, Sibley's. ...

Chappell's Chappell's was a family-owned department store chain based in Syracuse, New York. It opened in 1896 and remained in business until 1994. At its peak, it operated ten stores in the Syracuse area, Cortland, Watertown and Massena. In no particular ...

Macy's Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...

Sibley's Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company, known informally as Sibley's, was a Rochester, New York-based department store chain with stores located exclusively in the state of New York. Its flagship store, at 228 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, also ...

Kaufmann's Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Summary The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regi ...

Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (stylized as "DICK'S Sporting Goods") is an American sporting goods retail company, based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The company was established by Richard "Dick" Stack in 1948, and has approximately 854 stores an ...

, and

Hess's Hess's was a department store chain based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company started in 1897 with one store, originally known as Hess Brothers, and grew to nearly 80 stores by its peak in the late 1980s. The chain's stores were closed or sold ...

. The mall remained a major shopping mall before ultimately transitioning into a

which is currently under development. The later 2010's saw multiple traditional chain anchors update their brick-and-mortar fleets after being disrupted by digital retailers in recent years. On January 4, 2017, Macy's, which maintains a much larger outpost at

Destiny USA Destiny USA (stylized as destiny usa and also known by its former name Carousel Center) is a six-story, automobile-oriented super-regional shopping, dining, and entertainment complex on the shore of Onondaga Lake in the city of Syracuse, New York ...

, announced as part of a strategy to focus on their highest achieving locations that they would be leaving the center. On June 28, 2018, it was announced Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing plan to phase out of brick-and-mortar. On July 10, 2021 Dick's Sporting Goods transitioned to a

Wegmans Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a privately held American supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Gates, New York, and was founded in 1916 in Rochester. As of , Wegmans has 110 stores, mostly in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions. The ...

-anchored shopping center less than a mile away. An IHOP opened in front of the mall on March 16, 2021. On August 17, 2022, the mall announced Hart Lyman Company was transforming the mall into a

with luxury apartments and townhomes, a movie theater and hotel, high-end shops and restaurants. On October 27, 2022, a letter was sent to the remaining tenants informing them the mall closed permanently on November 20, 2022. Days later on October 30, 2022, Guy Hart, who is acquiring the mall, asked the current owners to not enforce the deadline date giving the remaining tenants at least until the sale of the mall in December to vacate. However, current owner Mike Kohan has insisted that November 20 is the actual closing date.

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