PHILADELPHIA, PA—PREIT says the impending closing of three Macy's stores in its mall portfolio (Moorestown, NJ; Plymouth Meeting, PA; and Valley View Mall, LaCrosse, WI) have given the real estate investment trust an opportunity to reposition the store real estate quickly, taking advantage of marketplace changes affecting the mall properties.
Macy's announced earlier this week that it would close 68 stores over the next several months including four in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Two of the closing stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are at PREIT-owned malls, one is at the Namdar Realty Group's Voorhees Town Center, formerly the Echelon Mall, in Voorhees Township, NJ, and one is at the Neshaminy Mall, in Bensalem, PA, owned by Chicago-based General Growth Properties.
Kevin Berry, senior vice president of investor and public relations at General Growth Properties, tells GlobeSt.com that GGP “doesn't have an official comment on the news from Macy's.”
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