Image Update for Lancaster Mall

SALEM, OR-Lancaster Mall is in the midst of a $10-million comeback. The mall, opened in 1971, is undergoing its biggest makeover ever as it tries to stay in touch with shoppers by adding new furniture, new colors, new buildings and, most important, national retailers.

A new two-story, 27,000-sf Old Navy store is greeting shoppers as they enter the mall, Starbucks has filed to slip in next to it, Best Buy opened a free-standing store on mall property two months ago, and T.G.I. Friday’s and McGrath’s Fish House are in the midst of doing the same. As well, national clothing chain Anchor Blue is planning to locate inside the mall early next year, about the time Sears will undergo a renovation of old space and add 6,000 sf of new space to its children’s and women’s departments.