Newmarket North Mall: Unusual fate for Dead Mall - Raw & Real Retail

This is a property that still retains all of the classic architecture and feel of a mall, just stripped of any retail vestiges. Newmarket North has been known as Netcenter for the last 18 years, and is home to several office spaces and a massive Verizon call center. Sears still remains, and still sports their old 1970s Times New Roman red font that they have long since updated everywhere else. The upstairs portion of Sears, until very recently, was being used as a storage space and an area for fixture sales, despite this location not being on any closing lists. Within the last week, Sears has officially closed access to their second floor.


From Wikipedia:

Newmarket North Mall was a mall located in Hampton, Virginia that was developed by The Hahn Company and opened in 1975. Its three anchors were Leggett, Miller & Rhoads, and Sears.

In 1989, Goodman Segar Hogan bought the property and began a two-year, $9 million renovation and expansion project. In 1990, when the renovation was nearly complete, the mall was renamed "Newmarket Fair."

Due to Patrick Henry Mall's opening in bordering Newport News, Virginia in 1987, Newmarket Fair languished, and to this day Sears is the only remaining retail anchor tenant.

In 2000, Washington, D.C.-based companies NetCenter Partners and Hampton Partners purchased the 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m2) property on 53 acres (210,000 m2) and converted it into a business center with supporting retail, personal services and food service amenities called NetCenter.


Some good resources:

http://skycity2.blogspot.com/2016/07/...

http://deadmalls.com/malls/newmarket_...

http://mallmanac.blogspot.com/2016/03...