The owner of the Harrisburg Mall has pulled in a lease for a 30,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble book store, which will include a Starbucks café. Construction of the store will begin over the next few months. The store, which will flank the mall’s main entrance, should open during the first half of 2008.
“This is the cornerstone element of several tenants that are going to form what we refer to as a streetscape out in front of the mall,” said Larry Feldman, chairman and chief executive officer of New York-based Feldman Mall Properties Inc., which owns the mall.
The streetscape will include the existing Bass Pro Shops store entrance, the Barnes & Noble entrance, an entrance to the movie theater that is under construction and about three restaurants. Most of the stores with outdoor entrances will be internally connected to the mall, Feldman said.
Harrisburg Mall plans to announce seven or eight new leases, some of which will supplement the streetscape, over the next few months.
