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Bangor Mall
Location Bangor, Maine, USA
Coordinates 44°49′49″N 68°44′56″W / 44.8304°N 68.7490°W / 44.8304; -68.7490
Opening date October 1978
Developer The Kravco Co.
Management Namdar Realty Group
Owner Namdar Realty Group
No. of stores and services 52 (Open)
No. of anchor tenants 4 (3 open, 1 vacant)
Total retail floor area 653,000 square feet (60,700 m2)
No. of floors 1

Bangor Mall is a 60-acre (24 ha) shopping mall in Bangor, Maine, United States.

Located off the Stillwater Avenue exit on Interstate 95, it serves as a shopping center for the surrounding Bangor area. Current stores include JCPenney and Dick's Sporting Goods. Previous anchors include Sears, which closed in 2018, Macy's (originally Filene's that opened in 1998), which closed in 2017 and became Furniture, Mattress And More in 2018, and Porteous, which closed in 2003 and became Dick's Sporting Goods in 2004. Bangor Mall is managed by Namdar Realty Group, who acquired the mall for $12.6 million in 2019 after Simon Property Group defaulted on an $80 million loan.

Exterior Entrance Tulips
Bangor Mall Exterior Entrance in Spring 2018

Built in 1977 on a former dairy farm and opened in October 1978, it sits on Stillwater Avenue north of Bangor's central business district. It can be reached from nearby Interstate 95 via exits 186 and 187. In 1998, Filene's opened its store in the mall, during the 1996-1998 renovation.

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